Coordinator, Center for Research and Advocacy Manipur (CRAM)
LITTLE did I know what he was sharing, except for the few funny Meiteilon suffixes he mixed with his pure Rongmei dialect:
“…..kanagi Deben-Nungben… internet-nungternet… media-nungdia…..(everyone laugh… look at each other meaningfully)……stops for a while…..continue again….(with his hands clasping tight together with a clapping sound…shut his eyes tightly with frowning eyebrows…distorting facial expression in serious tone) ...MEI GUAINA…(took the names of few leading students organisation)…. Kanagi KSO, AMSU, ZSUM, (….the same expression again… in a commanding voice…stressing the point). MEI GUAINA”
LATER I learn that ‘Mei Guaina’ mean ‘everyone/all of us,’ which was his stress point. The young energetic guy, smiling wide and bright conducts the community meet on ‘Protection of land and Environment’ at Nungba jointly organised by the Nungba Area Village Authority Association (NAVAA), NWU and Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur (CRAM) on 2-3 May, 2017. A slim, medium built, not so fair complexion, old fashioned in a formal wear, bearing a village elder’s appearance, endorsed with extra qualities of being a leader, cheerlead the sharing, in pure Rongmei dialect, a dialect beyond my grasp and understanding. Reading the gestures and the expressions was the sole means I rely upon to develop a symbolic self-interpretation. He is Mr Gunrei Kamei, from Nungba, whom well-wishers teased him as the responsible leader within the jurisdiction from Nungba to the bridge over Barak River. So, I call him Nungba Gunrei.
THE sharing continues, with another decent looking, fair complexion, dressed casually, well -built and tall young man, expressing in a Hindi, Meiteilon, English and Rongmei mixed version:
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