Thatched House

Drawing hearts on paper And thinking about you This has become My favorite Time Pass

O n 8 th January, All roads in Chokri Area led to Kikruma village for the 25 th Session of Chokri Area Wrestling Association (CAWA). The Chief Guest, Chotisuh Sazo came to inaugurate the memorial stone at 8:30 am at Government High School ground. But that is not where the action was. The anxious crowd had gathered at the St. Peters’ School ground. The excitement and the eagerness to see action was palpable. The prolonged delay in between was met with shouts of, ‘come on, we want to see wrestling’.   We love wrestling. And not just any wrestling, we want Naga Style Wrestling. When the third round was followed by National Style wrestling, people started to leave. The Chief Guest in his wonderful speech had appealed to give importance to National Style as well because that can take one to national and international levels. But our hearts and emotions are with Naga Style.  Oath taking Before I go on too long with the introduction and the side stories, let’s hear how i...

at tzazu, dec 31, 2013 It is 7 th January 2014, 12: 45 AM and I am wide awake. I’m tired of trying to go to sleep. Worse is that on 6 th January, I updated my facebook status as the day being the most boring since the world began. I woke up early at Pfutsero and drove to Kohima to attend office for the first time this year. It was cold, silent and no one was in the mood to work. After being away for about 20 days, my house was dusty. I was exhausted, partly because of driving and partly because of a kind of emptiness inside. When you are leaving home after a long stay, that happens I suppose. I have worked hard this winter at home. The hardest was the day Mom, Dad, and I fell trees at Tsazu mountain in order to build a farm house. I had blood blisters bursting in my palms. I was excited with the idea of a farm house and the plans I have there for 2014. But yesterday (and now), I was lazy and irritable. When I came from work, there was no electricity and it was cold. Now, to top ...

It is freezing cold here at Pfutsero. There were reports of snowfall last month (December 2013). And cold weather can be incapacitating. People from warm places dread the climate and do not plan to visit during winter. But not so for people who make their home at Pfutsero.  How do people at Pfutsero go on living? As someone who was born and brought up at Pfutsero, let me share some survival tips. They are not in any particular order. 1.        Rather than wear one thick sweater/jacket/shawl, wear several layers of clothes. There is a scientific principle behind it. Person A sleeps with one blanket which is 3 inches thick; while Person B sleeps with two blankets each of 1.5 inches thickness. Which one will be warmer? They are of the same thickness (3=1.5+1.5). But due to air being trapped in between the two blankets (which retains heat), Person B will feel warmer. 2.        It is not just the temperature bu...

I expect to blog more regularly in 2014. So, you can expect to see new posts more frequently this year. I’ve said this earlier but I was not able to carry out myself: that one should not try to write big stuffs all the time. It need not be a thoroughly researched and carefully thought article that one tries to write each time. If one tries that, one won’t survive for long in blogging.  So, I’m going to write about things and thoughts which I encounter every day. Every day ordinary stuffs are beautiful. And I would appeal to the heart to appreciate that beauty that we can find in the ordinary, that we often take for granted. It is about being observant, being alive to the times and the surroundings, being appreciative, but also being critical sometimes. I want us to live more reflectively. I want us to live with more hope. And I believe that people can change for the better. If we care, if we speak up, and if we act on what we believe; I believe people and our society c...