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LAMHIL SEPTEMBER 2012 Editorial...
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WARRIORS IN A DISTANT DREAM
What has western civilization brought upon us? Obviously, we can say
wisdom and development. But we cannot forget that it has been the causative factors
for the attenuation of the old folklores, when we do was grasped the magnitude of
the inevitability in following the doctrines of western civilizations and cultures, keeping
aside the value of Christianity. Those who were born during the late 20 th century are
fortunate for they might have been the last immediate descendants who can rekindle
the folklore and happen to see the relics of our ancestors with their own eyes. Because,
those were the years our grandparents who are in their late octogenarians or more
happen to be the relics of our ancestors who could recount the legends of their
fathers and forefathers.
We all might have been told about the myth of our forefathers who had
chosen the red shawls and rifles instead of a home land. In the present scenario, we
might think that they were thoughtless of not choosing the home land. But the fact
was that, they were supreme warriors and hunters who only needs red shawls to
survived the cold winters and rifles to protect their hunting grounds which obviously
was their home land. Alexander the Great once said, I am not afraid of a pack of
lions lead by a sheep but I am afraid of a pack of sheep lead by a lion . We can say
that our forefathers were all lions-liked with a scattering lions-liked leaders (chieftains)
united with one purpose guarding their villages and hunting grounds. How did the
Anglo-Kuki war of 1917-1919 instigate the rebellion? Exhuming deeper for the clue,
we will only conclude that the British has a fear and already knew the efficiency of our
forefathers as a warriors and so on persuade them to fight in their fronts against
France during the First World War. They might act like savages as warriors and hunters
do, but the strongest strength of their might was only the reasons of unity and fraternity
among them.
The way of life our forefathers had live the way they hunt, the way they
dance, the way they sing, the way they recite poems, the way they grieved and mourned
for the death. We are all yearning to see them, but by now the folklores of our
ancestors only belong to stories at these times of our years. The western civilization
that the British had brought upon us only became the necessary evil for very much of
our younger generations. The generations of nowadays are only the specs in a shadow
of our ancestors with no more unity and fraternity, with a bunch of lions lead by a
sheep as it was in the context of Alexander the great. Yearnings for life that our
folklores had shimmers, I might want to do the same again and live the life of warriors
and hunters or live the life of savages or whatever the case it was during the past, these
wisdoms only belongs to legends and only in the forms of stories today. No matter
how much I want to take my part again among them, it only became a distant dream.
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