BE ORIGINAL - Confused Arunachal

                 Today’s Arunachal Pradesh is so much confused, the language she speaks, the cuisine she eats, the wardrobes she wears, everything. Literally everything. Many of them called it as developing or progressing and many are divided into happy and not happy about it while others have no idea what is going on!

                Firstly we are so much bollywoodised; the Indian television has drastically changed us to good as well as bad. In the early ’90s, every parent wanted their children to ‘talk Hindi, walk Hindi’ and by mid-’90s another generation of parents wanted their Children to ‘talk English, walk English’. By the end 90’s or early 20’s the mid-generation caught up with koreanisation. The K-Pop Culture. These too with the pirated Korean films at the dumped old shops with music boxes and Hollywood films all pirated, they didn’t even spare Bollywood or say anything that is/was motion picture.

The process of learning through Bollywood is so cursive that you will find people trying to speak in the Punjabi accent, Delhite Hindi or even what they call Tapori, the street language of Mumbai resented by many but widely imitated by many as humorous and comical. People who have lived or studied in central India or mainland India flaunt with their mixed Hindi accent of UP, Bihari, Delhite, Punjabi etc. Whereas the larger population of the Arunachal Pradesh have caught up Hindi speaking through the Television. The Television with Bollywood has had so much inscribed into the veins of people here that today Arunachal People are best Hindi Speaker in North Eastern India.

Wait. Just a minute. Did I just mention ‘Best Hindi Speakers’? Nah! Ours is a Hindi without any grammars. We have grammatically deprived Hindi speakers. And some of us already boosts we should promote “Arunachali Hindi” we have rappers, singers as well as movies in so-called ‘Arunachali Hindi’. So here is a lame argument - ‘ There is no problem in doing so, the language should pass and must be understood by the common people as well state Arunachal Pradesh itself is so multi-diverse state, that you will find different dialect with different accent every 30mtrs you walk in the state’ as well creativity has no boundaries.

               Now the problem is - we are heading towards extinction. As plain as that; Leave the data provided by the UNESCO. We are witnessing it ourselves every day with every generation.  More than half of the young population is shamelessly trying to show off with their blatantly wrong Spoken Hindi and English through different mediums. Whereas the developed side of the world’s society through their organizations, NGOs, missionaries, even foreigner came, still comes to learn our Language, our dialect and they are working hard to protect and preserve it while we still bastion on the Hindi and English.

                 It’s high time  Arunachal Pradesh wakes up. Through observation, Television is the best platform to mend this pain point in keeping our local dialect intact. The Local Filmmakers, Local Artist including singers, rappers, writers must feel their responsibilities. Remember ‘originality always remains the best’. You got the best and greatest medium to promote local dialects through your films and songs. Universities need a more focussed group. Mere research just for the thesis may fetch you a degree but if it is not useful for the society then it has no value. Therefore Researchers needs to uphill in this field and bring out some revolutionary mechanism to preserve and promote the dying dialects. Don’t let us extinct.

                 Before we or our coming generation just read and study, about our dialects, our culture in gunged Museums or a textbook. We strap our boots. Make it our responsibility by speaking our own dialects at home, with friends and start teaching our younger ones. Let us start making videos, films, and write songs, on our dialects and keep alive our mother tongue spoken by our great grandparents and let not our dialect die.

 Let us BE ORIGINAL

 

Arunachal Pradesh In Need Of Leaders Not Politicians.

                   The State assembly elections are just around the corner. There are numerous people organizing big launching events to declare their candidature for the Member of Legislative Assembly in the State. The laymen are confused and even the candidates themselves are confused. A glaring example is the majority of candidates declaring themselves are seemingly BJP candidates and interestingly the constituency’s sitting legislature is also BJP MLA. The Banners they put on consist of all rank and files of party bosses with their signature pose of holding hands at the center with a large front. Some of them went to an extend wearing saffron cloths to match to their party bosses clothing. The state youths including the student representative of socially mandated social forums are trumpeting their own candidates, whereas this handful of youths become strong critics of the party from where their candidate is begging for the party ticket. Especially with the issue of PRC and CAB. The youths of the state seems like BJP should not come to power in the state. But these confused social media warriors seem to be a hypocrite when they support a candidate of the Party whom they condemn tooth and nail in the social media and in peer groups. Actually like the Politicians of the State, these groups of young minds are also confused with their ideologies or have got no ideology. They speak, write or criticize when they see people around doing so. It is not by their own thoughts or conviction of ideas or ideology. Bottom line is Arunachal Pradesh and its people flows with the flow. It doesn’t resist actually.

                      Nevertheless, India is the largest democratic country and to add on it Arunachal is a land of Khusi-Khusi, Your honour has nothing to say on this. On a serious note, Arunachal today needs a “Leader”, not a “Politician”. As I say this, I know your eyebrows will be frown and this time every son of the soil is a political Pandit in the state. So you will have your own definition that will suit well to your politician as a true leader. I don’t care what you define or how you define.

One of the greatest leader and anti-apartheid Icon Nelson Mandela said the following quotes about leadership.

“Real Leaders must be able to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people”

No matter what your personal thoughts are of Nelson Mandela, I think the overall feeling we can all agree upon is that he left a grand legacy of Leadership. In saying so we really need great leaders in our area, a leader who can sacrifice and be an inspiration for all his people.

In the journey of this democratic process of electing our lead man, many have come and many have gone and at large we have witnessed a lot of political drama in the state. Therefore through my observations, I make three Categories of Pseudo Leaders. Though politicians of our state aren’t attached to a party because of their ideologies, there are worse people present in our system wooing for MLA.

 They are

     1. Who dropped/ will drop their candidature if ruling party ticket is not given: To be clear this group of  People aren’t leaders, they are the ‘Politicians’, they are an opportunist, hypocrite pseudo leaders who will leave their foot soldiers in the midst of the Election. In this 2019 assembly elections, it will be interesting to watch how many of the declaring candidates will drop if he/she will not get BJP ticket. All their trumpeting speeches will be forgotten by the public too.            2.  Who declares candidate for a bargaining point, this category of Politicians knows that he/she will never be elected but has got clan/villages with him. This is neither because of their sheer dire to serve the people nor are they serious of their candidature. This is just in case he can bargain or compromise with anyone more powerful than him in terms of financial superiority.

       3. Third categories are politicians who actually don’t aim to be MLA, they along with category 2 aims for Chairman of a Department. Their point of compromise comes to the post of  Chairman/Chairperson.     

                        Your's truely would give a statutory notice that many of present sitting Chairman/Chairpersons of various government enterprises/departments were once an MLA aspirant and not all, I repeat that not all of them, were MLA aspirant. The Supporters of various leaders have come up with their own justifications to prove that their candidate as true leaders, well that’s great of a worker.

               But the truth is: this is how we support candidates and paint them true leaders.

For us                                

1. A tender  must be given to any of my family members: he is a true leader

2. A job that too regular/ WC (remember in Govt.  Department) must be given to any of my family members: he is a true leader.

3. I must be given importance at all levels, (attend me whenever I call or whenever I come etc): he is a true leader

                Anyone who has got no ‘personal favor’ from an MLA is sure to go against him/her. Especially a group of people who calls themselves as ‘intellectual’ or ‘elite’. God knows what makes them that class.  Majority of our Politicians neither have ideology nor does the voters. We don’t go by ‘issue-based’ politics, we go by clannish, and regionalism based politics. We don’t elect leaders, we elect politicians. And to all those class of intellectuals and elite, please make sure you elect a leader, not a politician

           An opportunist, only a ruling party ticket seeker, and an irresponsible leader is a Politician, and a person who is responsible for his people, for his community and a very responsible Politician is a true leader.

Hopefully, Arunachal Pradesh will get true leaders this 2019, whose leadership will serve this motherland and make it prosperous in all front.