With deference to the aspirations of women, this piece is written as a plausible tool to put the finishing touches on a rough hewn Delhi concept. Sustainable societies have a cohesive citizenry that is in tune with its environs and though circumstances and time changes this basic ingredient for endurance is constant and never changing and key to Naga resilience in this principle expressed through fraternity and consensus with land and kinship solidifying and culturing the identity. Delhi’s mandarins have forwarded a system to elevate women in elective bodies. Bravo to them. Yet much before this occurrence Nagas had instinctively and spontaneously adapted traditions to the times by fashioning women and youth wings from the smallest units of society to the apex, parallel but supplemental to the main body in order to make functional its inherent consensus governance for distinctive to this land is its concomitant existence with an elective governance. Delhi’s concept of empowerment to women through elective measures might be ground breaking in the mainland but to the straightforward Naga mind it appears forked for though the over-shot is fair to the weaker gender the pages tell a different story. Favouring one sex by denying the right of the other to contest belittles the percepts of; by the people, of the people, and the other, of propelling women into a calling that is undeniably corrupt from its very electoral process. If Nagas were to resolve this discrepancy, its inborn and Christian values for justness and fairness could perhaps materialize as 1) equal seats with equal rights as consensus nominees, or 2) in a general contest of male and female, females get an additional 33% bonus. Pursuit of power by undermining fraternity is extremely precarious and care must be given to the surreptitious arm of intelligence pundits.
Lhouvi Tseikha
Kohima Village
lhouvi_tsikhano@yahoo.co.in
