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"Nagalim has never been a part of India"
Subir Ghosh: There is a perceptible difference between the talks of the Sixties and that of the Nineties. What lessons did you learn from the previous discussions so that the current negotiations are not abortive once again?
Thuingaleng Muivah: I would rather say that to quite an extent our approach last time had not been genuine. It was not, objectively speaking, to the point.
SG: Except the NSCN chairman Isak Chishi Swu - the factor common to the two rounds of talks - everything else is different.
TM: The general feeling of the people too is different this time. On has to, many a time, follow the wishes of the times. This time the feeling was that we should also try to understand the difficulties of the Indian government. So we are also trying to understand their problems when it comes to our relations with them.
SG: You outright rejected the idea of a Bhutan-type protectorate arrangement. Why?
Officers and scoundrels
Two drunk schmucks get horny in a bar, and try to fiddle around with a woman. (Commonplace behaviour, we might say, in a bar at least.) When they are asked to behave themselves, they turn violent. (Just as commonplace, we might agree too.) They are, thankfully, apprehended and detained at a nearby police station. And after a while, all hell breaks loose. For, a gang of their armed, pillaging, comrades land up at the police station and thrash the policemen black and blue.
The script might sound all-too-familiar; only that it isn’t from a sleazy Bollywood potboiler. This happened for real, and the schmucks in question are squeaky clean officers of the venerable Indian Army. Hmmm. Why am I not surprised?
The A to Jed of the Bengali Alphabet
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Being a Bong, I love jokes about Bongs. This one came as a forwarder a day back.
Sometimes I love being spammed.
Read on...
The A to Jed of the Bengali Alphabet
From a poor benighted Kolkatan soul ...
A is for Apish(Office). This is where the average Kolkakattan goes and spends a day hard(ly) at work. If he is in the Government he will arrive at
10, wipe his forehead till 11, have a tea break at 12, throw around a few files at 12.30, break for lunch at 1, smoke an unfiltered cigarette at 2, break for tea at 3, sleep sitting down at 4 and go home at 5. It's a hard life!
B is for Bhision. For some reason most of the Bengalis don't have good bhision. In fact in Kolkata most people are wearing spectacles all the
time. The effects of this show in the city.
Bangla 'kobita'
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We Bongs are Anglophiles. We laab Ingreji. And we laab kobita.
Someone forwarded this to me. And I must share this with you too.
Through the jongole I am whent
On shooting Tiger I am bent
Bashtaard Tiger has eaten wife
No doubt I will avhenge poor darling's life
Too much quiet, snakes and leeches
But I not fear these sans of beeches
Hearing loud noise I am jumping with start
But noise is coming from damn fool's heart
Taking care not to be fright
I am clutching rifle tight with eye to sight
Should Tiger come I will shoot and fall him down
Then like hero return to native town
Then through trees I am espying one cave
I am telling self - "Bholanath be brave"
I am now proceeding with too much care
From far I smell this Tiger's lair
My leg shaking, sweat coming, I start to pray
I think I will shoot Tiger some other day
Turning round I am going to flee
But Tiger giving bloody roar spotting this Bangalee
Eternal love
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If you look at the photograph, you will know why I wasn't able to resist from putting this up on my blog.
This photo provided by the Archaeological Society SAP in Mantua, northern Italy, on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 shows a pair of human skeletons found Monday February 6 at a construction site outside Mantua. Archaeologists unearthed the skeletons, believed to be a man and a woman, from the Neolithic period, buried between 5000 to 6000 years ago. It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. (AP Photo/Archaeological Society SAP, ho)
I surely wouldn't have known what Eternal Embrace would have meant.
Till I saw this.
I am going to remember this one.
And so should you.