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My wish to see the Naga Church become the “conscience-keeper” Chingmak Kejong Even frogs do not drink the water in which it lives, so for all Nagas and particularly for Nation-builders to overlook this simple fact of life would be a collective attempt towards national suicide. The rate at which politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, businessman and all at the helm of society are hording and amassing wealth is not only being immoral but is a reflection of the short-sightedness of the present generation. My wish for the New Year is therefore for all leaders at all levels to imbibe the virtue of self evaluation and measure oneself against the best in the world. A democracy which encourages voice of dissent and promotes transparent governance is a cultured society and reflects the quality of its citizenry. My wish for 2013 is to see the Naga Church become the “conscience-keeper” and to lay-out the twin rails of justice and equity, on which it would set all its members on this journey of introspection and openness
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to change. Through all the early years of my Church career, I regret to say that I have never ever been mentored, guided or encouraged by my seniors. I wish the Church becomes a platform which would provide mentorship and become a breeding ground for producing dynamic leaders for the future. I wish the Church would speak of Christian citizenship, because we seem to be all ‘heaven bound’, not realizing that in essence the intent of the Lord ’s Prayer is about establishing His kingdom on earth and making Nagaland like heaven. Someone said the roads reflect the kind of Government we have and yet it is easier to blame the politicians, not realizing that it is we who have allowed them to become demi-gods and have set them above God the creator. My desire for the New Year is to see all Nagas grow out of the hang-over of the past head hunting days of our fathers. Our sense of identity seems to derive from our tribal identities and this is further ghettoising and encapsulating ourselves from the fast emerging world. Unless we understand the present pluralistic world and engage ourselves with the
cultures of the world, we might just miss the bus and be redundant sooner than later. I wish we speak more of ‘naganess’ as a virtue and not ascribe exclusive value to this paradigm. The day we grow beyond our tribal and clan boundaries and imbibe virtues of inclusiveness, than we would have arrived and this will help broaden our world view. Adaptive behaviour comes only with time and I pray this year 2013 will lead us into becoming more open and begin the process of unwrapping the many layers of inhibitions and the pent-up suspicions towards our ‘other’ tribal neighbours. The two principle stumbling blocks in our tribal perceptions are ‘tribal self-righteousness’ and ‘tribal self-indulgence’ and this is sadly fuelling the idea of ‘we’ and ‘they’. What scares me at times is that we are so united but for all the wrong reasons. I Hope some of us in 2013 will decide to climb the tall tree of conscience and shout, ‘hey guys! we are all doing fine but we are headed in the wrong direction’. This 2013, I wish we all resolve to tag along with us those considered the ‘bottom of the heap’ and envision a shared future of peace and prosperity.
Despite 65 years of our struggle, we have still not defined what kind of a nation we wish to gift ourselves or to our future generation. The future is very blurred because self-interest and personal agendas have become paramount. This is making our philosophy of life very narrow and ‘living for today and for myself’ an unconscious ambition by all. This perception is like Jesus said, ‘building on the sandy soil’. Even at 65 we seem to be like a troubled young teenager, struggling through adolescence and at best behaving spoilt. I sometimes wonder when will we deal with other fundamental issues like corruption, right to vote, issues of gender rights, when will my daughter own property, when will women have equally status etc. I wish 2013 will bring about a sea change in bringing to the forefront all social concerns and thereby debating issues that are ailing the society and driving the discussion towards social transformation. The larger concern is the sin of ‘collective omission’ and hope 2013 will become the beginning of the year of affirmative action by all.
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My hope for Nagas in 2013 Wabangla
Hope for the Blue Mountains. When one contemplates about hope and looks back at the history of the Naga people and discerns how far we have come as a people, one is reminded of the many things that we take for granted. Hope, indeed does not come from calculating, nor is it a strategy. Hope is simply a choice to take pro-active actions to change the conditions and realities that surrounds us. Hope is to ensure that the values of justice do not get lost in the many sophisticated things that have enveloped our lives. Hope is to ensure that we do not borrow the future of our children; rather it is to empower them to become fully self-determining in the circle of interdependence. To hope for a future of freedom can be meaningful when the most basic of needs and infrastructure is made available for our children to develop to their fullest capacity. (Imkümra)
Visions, hopes, dreams and fantasies. You have it, so did I. Now I half wish for it. Now I’m convinced it’s futile to harbour dreams in Nagaland. Talk and wish for peace for Nagas, We’re still lost fighting for military control. Naga leaders failing to link diplomacy and development. I’m sorry to say, you’re not worthy for a salute. I had long wished issues will be resolved. With this huge sovereignty gap, Will it be possible? It’s a shame. When working minds, build nations and communities. Ours is a different story. Do we work together to find solutions? It should be seeped into each mind. I had harboured this dream of spreading goodwill, long gone... Will you prove me wrong this 2013? That will be my hope for the Nagas.
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Wish of 2013: That We May Choose Persons Who …. Mazie Nakhro In the last decade, the people of China wanted development more than anything else. No wonder, today they have a disproportionate number of politicians from engineering backgrounds. In Africa, the military is the favored route into public life. This is understandable since ethnic clashes have remained to be a huge concern there. In the West, people are faced with increasing legal battles at every level and corner. And so, they’re seeing a growing number of lawyers-turned-politicians. In the case of Nagas, what are our biggest problems and thus our greatest needs? And what kind of leaders do we need to help us address them? Perhaps disunity is a number one problem for us. To solve this, we often appeal to our common Naga-ness or insist on coming under a common political ideology. The question is, Will this work? In my view, only God alone is strong enough to bring us together. We need to use our common faith in God to unite us as does Communism for China, Islam for Muslim countries, and Hinduism for most of India. Another problem many are disgusted with is the authoritarianism and the tyranny of our underground groups. Today we’re very afraid of them because speaking anything negatively about them could spell death. Not surprisingly, our people are waiting for the emergence of courageous
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leaders—people who will fear no man but God alone. All of us want more, if not complete, political autonomy from India. We speak of our rights, but we’re afraid to self-assert them. We speak of negotiation, but we give India the power to control the agenda. The other side seems to know more about us than we know about them. And they don’t seem to be under the same kind of institutional pressures and time constraints we feel we’re under. Where is our negotiating power when our freedom is mostly restricted to existence within the confines of our designated camps? How can we speak with authority when our survival seems to depend on rations from India or forced taxation from our own people? Can we not find any outside body to apply pressure on the Government of India? Don’t we have anything at all to bring to the table, say, something which India could benefit from, and which we could use to leverage our negotiating position? These hard questions are not out of malice, but for mutual concerns. For those who have lost all hope in our Naga movement, they see development as our best alternative solution. This is especially true of our state politicians. For all they do is this: always defer to India’s dictates and depend only on Delhi for funds. Can’t they do better than this? Surely, we Nagas have the human potential and the natural resources to become an envy of the world. So, what sort of leaders do we need? And how do we go about selecting them? In the Book of Deuteronomy, God gives us some very specific
qualifications required of a ruler: First, he should be a member of the community. Second, he should have God’s stamp of approval. Third, he should not run after power, wealth, or women. Fourth, he should depend on the laws of God and be guided by them so he may rule well. As Christians who are proud to call Nagaland a Christian State, it only makes sense that we apply Biblical guidelines. Having been driven by these concerns, I went to Eastern Nagaland about two years ago and met with a gentleman. Sometime later I encouraged him to consider getting into state politics. I offered to give him my full support and said, if possible, I’d very much like to see him serve as our Chief Minister. He’s a man who has been serving others as serving God himself. And much more than that, he’s exceptionally bright—he understands the needs and challenges of the modern times. Then four months ago, I heard that someone from my Western Angami constituency might be contesting in the election. I know him as a God-fearing leader who has much to give to our society, like many other great potential candidates amongst us. Anyway, whoever we vote for, my prayer is that we’d elect servant-leaders who will truly serve our people. Very soon we’ll have another opportunity to choose our leaders. This time around, let’s carefully make decisions which we won’t regret later. Let’s watch out for those so-called “public servants” who are basically driven by self-interests. It’s high time that we are wary of opportunistic political parties that are ever ready
to sacrifice principles in exchange for positions. And let’s not allow any government to sit on our head—crushing our aspirations, suppressing our voices, and keeping us stuck. When we follow God’s way of running the government, our institution can become an instrument of eradicating corruption and all other social evils. According to the prophet Isaiah, God has given us his Son and “the government will be on his shoulders,” that is, the government will be based on and supported by his righteousness. In other words, a righteous government is possible through God’s Son. A government which has Jesus as the Ruler will be characterized by justice. For example, the Bible speaks of Melchizedek (who serves as a figure of Jesus), as first of all King of righteousness, and then King of peace. Likewise, when Jesus rules, peace will follow justice. He wants government to be an agent of justice and punish the wrongdoers. This is how he brings order so as to ensure security and peace in society. A Christ-centered government will not exploit the weak or the powerless. Its leaders will have the priority of their Lord. They will live in proximity to the poor as their Master did. They will not neglect to meet the needs of “the least of these.” Rather they will serve the poor and the oppressed as though serving the Lord because he identifies with them and often sacramentally appears as them. As for those who have no God to fear and no moral absolutes to follow, they believe in a worldview called “the survival of the fit-
My Hope For Nagas In 2013 Dr. E. Renphamo Lotha The Nagas are going through a critical juncture in her history during 2013. They are in a crisis situation socially, economically, culturally, politically, and religiously. They are in a confused state religiously despite 95 percent Christian population. They could not distinguish between the church and state despite the existing doctrine of separation between the church and state. Politically, they are thoroughly confused whether to go for election or felicitate for Naga political solution. Culturally, they are in a confused state whether to preserve the traditional values or adopt western culture. Economically, they are fully dependent on the Centre with as high as 97 percent of Central Financial assistance. Socially, they are totally fragmented by individualism, clanism and tribalism. In the given circumstances, my hope for the Nagas in 2013 is rather gloomy as the maxim goes, “Morning shows the day”. But I hope to see a new horizon of sunshine beyond the cloud with the help of the Almighty God for the Nagas as follows:
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1. Religious resolution I wish to see a religious resolution for the Nagas with a clear bifurcation between the church and state in action as verbally professed by them. Further, I hope that the church to be self administering, self help in financial matter and self propagating as she is already 140 years old in Christian era. So that she will be able to play the role of the salt and
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the light of the world shinning in the pitch darkness of Naga Hills as commissioned to them by the Lord Jesus Christ. 2. Political Resolution I wish to see political resolution by conducting usual election as Naga political solution is a distant dream with as many as six voices. Because the proverb confirmed, “United we stand, divided we fall”. State election must not be mixed up with Naga political solution as they are East and West. Further, I suggest the underground factions to come together with one voice whether they would go for full independence, Naga integration or alternative arrangement etcetera. One should not remain like the bat. One needs to be specific as we are living in a scientific age. 3. Cultural Resolution The Nagas must keep the principle, “Old is gold”, “Keep new friends, one is silver and the other gold”The modern civilization is good, science and technology is good, but one needs the old cultural values containing the roots of the Nagas, such as Naga love, Naga honestly, Naga hospitality, Naga straightforwardness, Naga morality, Naga cleanliness, Naga unity, Naga justice, Naga reconciliation, Naga equality-classless society. 4. Economic resolution In 2013, Nagas need to build up economic independence by undertaking all kinds of trades and professions from the lowest to the highest like the Mizos by allowing money circulation within the State only. The church, state government, non-
governmental organizations (voluntary organizations), underground factions need self sufficiency. They should be able to stand on their own feet by becoming economically independent in action. All kinds of donations, extortions (without guns and with guns). So that they will be able to live like the Naga forefathers fully self dependent. The Bible commanded them not to eat without works. As Christians-followers of the Bible, Nagas must have economic self sufficiency before political independence. Jesus Christ himself promised them “abundant life” by hard works and not by begging endlessly. 5. Social resolution In 2013, the Nagas must renounce individualism to be replaced by communalism. They must renounce clanism to be replaced by collectivism. Further, they must renounce tribalism by unity and integration of the Nagas as enshrined in Ps. 133: Eph. 4:4 and John 15:12. So that the world will know that they are followers of Jesus Christ by their love, unity equality, social justice, social harmony and fraternity. 6. Conclusion Dear Naga brethren, the old year has gone along with the old state of affairs in Naga Society. A new year has been dawned. Let us welcome the New Year-2013 with the new vision, mission and programmes. Let us welcome a new religion, a new political life, a new cultural life with the old Nagaism, a new social order based in love, unity, peace, abundant life in its fullness followed by developments in all fronts. May God bless us richly in this New Year!
test.” For them, the end justifies the means. Naturally, they may not feel guilty about exploiting others. But those who really believe in God, they see everyone—male and female, rich and poor, Christian and non-Christian—as possessing exactly the same intrinsic value or worth because each person is made in the image of God, imago dei, and has the breath of God in his or her being. For these reasons, they respect every human being, including the unborn and the disadvantaged, as having the right to live in dignity and to receive fairness of treatment. Someday when the rule of our Lord Jesus is received on earth, people will have decent houses and rewarding jobs, children will not die in infancy, old people will live out their lives in health. And there will be no more need for war because peace will come at last. Although this is a prophecy primarily about a future time, it also has a certain applicational intent for us now. That’s why Jesus came to earth; and he spoke of good news to the poor, healing for the broken-hearted, freedom for prisoners, and the returning of sold property to the original owners. And he told us to pray, “Our Father in heaven…may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” So my wish for our people in 2013 is this: that we will choose God-fearing leaders who will lead us toward a more just society and a more prosperous future. And as they look up to God as their ‘North-Star,’ he can also use them to safely steer our ‘national-ship’ in this long, winding, and lifelosing voyage of ours toward our own “Promised land.”
My Hope For Nagas 2013 Jaga My hope for the Nagas et al two thousand thirteen May go beyond all imagination, to realise, Though the chances are one out of many umpteens. First in my long-long list Is the nauseating, repulsive, abhorrent, Product of the chewing mouth, the spit. Spitting here, spitting there, spitting everywhere, From the auto, bus, train or taxi, From the window of a building or spitting on the stair, A mouthful of blood-red thickened phlegm, Slightly craned neck, to Spew out the content, inconsequential the realm. On the busy road or freshly paved corridor, Newly painted wall or unstepped staircase, Nothing is left bereft of the red-tainted signature. Oh, well, will I see a cleaner atmosphere, Chances tho’ may be bleak and slim, To my hopes I humbly adhere. Second in the list is human dignity, Some like to bully, I don’t know why, In the autos and taxis, or queuing up at ATM-SBI. I saw a rickshaw-puller beaten black and blue, His only mistake was, he took a U-turn, And did not see a scooter coming through. Third in my list is all-pervading security, Threats of guns should silently leave the scene, Peace prescribed, let peace prevail encompassing diversity. Noble thoughts, noble talk, noble deeds, ‘Conquer evil with good’, be the Slogan of the Year, A pioneer’s role, a pioneer’s goal, adopt ye indeed. No more threat, no more fear, a cleaner atmosphere, No more looking down upon non-locals, Will be my plea throughout this year. This is my hope for two thousand thirteen, Is it a bit too much of an expectation? Dignity, security and atmosphere clean.
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H O PE I want to share my small thought for the Nagas to fight for what we wants in our life for the future generations. I also want to share to have a better effort in whatever we do in this beautiful New Year. Long live NAGAS.
In my opinion Nagas are talented, beautiful and creative. My hope for Nagas is that a conducive and level playing field is provided where Nagas especially the youth prosper.
We the Nagas has to act wisely, need to be more rational and look for sustainability in choosing our Leaders (over ground and underground). May the Nagas learned how to preserve our environment How to love and care for one another May we do away with tribalism.
The process of the movement and the revolution of Nagas had a great impact upon the system of Naga society. We expect the change of both the ideology and the concept of society. Extortion, corruption, exploitation, vested interest, injustice, indiscipline; etc will be practicing as long as the politicization of Naga spirit exists. The common people in every Naga areas are suffering, struggling and exploited at the cost of Nagas politics and self interest. Many leaders and officials whether those who support Nagas politics or those who oppose to Naga politics, are equally benefited and exploited the welfare of the common people. This happen in all Naga inhabited areas. Globalization, interdependent, economic liberalization and humanity are the reality of the environment. Let’s hope that development of all kind of infrastructure, rule of law, peace, humanity, justice and respect is prevailed and transformed upon the mindset of the people.
VIKATO CHISHI
AKHAYII KOMOU
TEMZ KICHU
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RUYIZO RÜHO
HAHAO SINGSON
I encourage all the fellow Naga Citizen’s to use their talents and visions in an affirmative way, so as to find peace and harmony amongst us. Whether you are an artist, doctor, soldier, politician etc, let’s make our mark, so that people will remember for many generations to come. God bless Nagaland.
I hope 2013 be a year of blessing, let this year bring a Political Solution.
Be it a Best Year, where all Nagas be blessed to have Jesus Christ in their life, home, community, church etc.
I hope this 2013 will be a year of clean election, the beginning of public unity and honesty. ESTHER SEB
I hope Nagas will become more considerate and responsible in respecting the rights of each and every individual and that Nagas will become a growing and dynamic society reflecting true love and peace. R. POJAR
KAKHELI KINIMI
May all Nagas Have Peace and Harmony. ALOLY SUMI
As the New Year takes the flying start, May it brings peace of Heaven to our Nagaland and hope that there be no more factional killings, rape, murder and most important tribalism. And every Naga be a true seeker of Lord Jesus Christ.
I am so proud because we the Nagas have lots of talented; I hope this New Year is the year for our year that God has blessed us to our Nagas family.
My hope for Nagas in 2013 is to rightly exercise our precious “Single Vote” in the forth coming General Election. For if we want a corrupt free society with capable leaders then the correct steps should be taken right from home. A reminder to our Nagas is that your single vote and my single vote is precious. Once J.F. Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”. So wake up we the Nagas and ponder how we are going to exercise our “single vote” this time….!
SANGLI CHANG
MEDOVINUO SANGTAM
AYEVI KERA
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The Hypocrisy of Hope Kekhrie Yhome What is hope? Is there any truth that “one cannot live without hope?” Hoping to outline an answer, which appeared in the tradition over many centuries – from the Greeks till twentieth century – the staunch Marxist phenomenologist Ernst Bloch introduces his encyclopedic three-volume book, The Principle of Hope, with the following questions: “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we waiting for? What awaits us?” In framing historical and philosophical perspectives on “hope,” Bloch proposes “utopia not as an impossible ideal, but as a real and concrete final state which can be achieved politically.” In this hope formula there is no ontological difference between NSCN-IM wanting a sovereign Nagalim; children dreaming of Santa Claus for goodies; believers prayerfully desiring to enter Heaven; or, a Class XII student expecting a career in engineering. How does the experience of “hope” work? The allure of privileging transcendental experience by advocating the supremacy of utopian thinking – while also acknowledging the discords of realities with those of expectations, possibilities and dreams – is framed in the criteria of a radical departure, through the negation of the other – whether it is embedded in social or economic improvement; historico-political breaks as in revolutionary events; groundbreaking legislations as in the sense of justice; or, structural turns in method of ideas as in epistemological breaks or paradigm shifts. How are the trajectories of hope constituted? Is there really a difference in hope, as Joseph Godfrey devises, between “ultimate hope” (or hope with an aim) from “fundamental hope” (or hope that lacks an aim but that is a basicdisposition)? Central to hope is utopian thinking. It is the desire for the not there! A desire for another reality (non-reality) from the present reality! Bloch cleverly weaves his element of hope by synthesizing Kantian “ideal” with Marx and Engels’ materialist philosophy, improvises Aristotelian concept of “entelechy” into “possibility,” and, finally, integrates Bacon’s “New Atlantis” project with the messianic promises of “socialism.” The appeal of Bloch’s proposal in a “Not-Yet-Conscious” formulating of “hope” lies in the claim that “fresh synthetic combinations can be extracted from the thinking of the past, precisely because this thinking is not yet finished, and is to be discovered and inherited by each succeeding age.” Hope – therefore – is a project that will never discontinue amongst humans because “from all progressive thinking a utopian surplus is carried over into the future.” This “utopian surplus” or what
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Lenin beckons us: “What must we dream of?” is central to our purpose of meaning in life: “What is hope?” Is there a “gulf between dream and reality,” as Pissarev asks, with “some point of contact between dream and life for everything to be in the best order”? The idea of a “perfect world” with the “highest good” as a romantic consciousness engaged with a metaphysical speculation of what is beautiful is too good to be true – and Bloch refuses to deny that it is “incompatible with a materialist approach to the world.” A reductionist definition of “hope” is therefore simply at the heart of human being’s metaphysical aspiration – a disruptive search to dislocate the present – with nostalgic aid of the past and the certitude for a future! Hope is therefore by nature about “an absence, a lack, a source of tension in our lives,” – the “greatest of misfortunes” – as Luc Ferry puts it, resonating Stoic and Buddhist thoughts, since “we live in terms of plans, chasing after objectives located in a more or less distant future, and believing that our happiness depends upon their accomplishment.”Epictetus, by first century A.D., had already advanced the idea that the good life is a life that is free of hope and fear! The anxieties of modernity have translated hope as a perpetual “disenchantment of the world,” as a paraphrase of Schiller by Weber. Also, Nietzsche had already mocked human’s incapacity to embrace the love of reality itself (amor fati). The disillusionment with reality – as a precursor to modernity – suppliesus not only words to reflect on but also richly furnishes the location of “human consciousness” and how knowledge is formulated and legitimized. The sacrament of hope in Christian tradition is centrally tied to unquestionable faith in and love for God; dispelling inevitable existential doubts in illustrative stories of tribulation or miracles or parables; and justifying any liabilities of incoherence in wonderful para-logic reward tales of providence and salvation. That is religion. Are the specificities of our hopes conditioned by these moral and religious entities? Thereon, the attempt to identify the “life of hope,” here on earth – by the pragmatic school of thought – that the “habits of hope” need to be practical, as Patrick Shade highlights in his Habits of Hope: A Pragmatic Theory, that they “need to be related to actual conditions and powers through which they can be realized.”Hope is seen as a function that is avowed with “improving interaction” in order to enable “humans to transform their environments under the guidance of practically defined ends.” A confabulation of theory, action, means and ends! It resonates: what historical narrative must we selectively repeat again: to enforce a re-enchantment that our reality needs to change? How long can we play
God: in pulling a trigger that takes a life away, as a retrospective step in changing the realities of politics? What lies, or even truth, must we valorize, to push forth an agenda that seeks to transform a dominant knowledge of perception? How much more shall we chant in the name of God: to answer, or even question, the unimaginable, the impossible? Who else speaks the language of hope? Is it the hard-working instinctive farmer, simply following the laws of nature, by plowing earth and sowing seeds on time, with the simple intent to just feed his family, and sell the surplus for his children’s education? What language shall he employ: to express satisfaction about the day’s work? What profundity of expression shall he delight upon: to feel a certain joy that the harvest is looking good? In what loneliness of pale intimacy shall he speak to his wife, so as the children do not overhear: to announce that the year’s entire crop has been destroyed by a hailstorm? What does it mean to dream, to escape, and to despair? Must we begin from where one is? Or can we be planned like the Millennium Development Goals? Hope is therein seen as both expansive and persuasive. Similarly, the hope of the social and the individual are seen as distinctive. Are our personal hopes subsumed by a larger hope? What kind of hope must we speak in an age of cynicism and skepticism, or postmodern kindness? Can we afford to hope for peace and also sneer at the historicopolitical environment? Do we remain entrenched in narratives that shall continue to lie, or seek power? The questions continue to summon: for, without hope, it is death, a living dead! Unfortunately, it is the very predetermination and predilection of a Naga Hope that has historically eroded the very culture of hope, which is certainly necessary to open and reconcile individual and social creativity. The elements of generosity and hospitality in our conversations and discussions – in the sense of a spirit of dialogue, the “ability to hear, listen and give” – has given way to “resentment, fear or unwillingness” As Mary Zournazi argues: “hope can only come when we live in public and political cultures where there is truly a space for dialogue – that is, a public arena where ideas are allowed and there is a space made possible for those yet to be heard.” Today, the hypocrisy of hope lies in the very arrogance and redundancies, where hope is elucidated, legitimized, as the collective, without a conversation, without a dialogue with the other! When there is no “joyful engagements possible with others” – hope is hopeless! One cannot impose hope! [The author runs a column under A Little Chat for Thursday’s edition of Eastern Mirror]
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Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words - ‘Wait and hope’ ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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