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photo speakCustomers seen picking oranges from a large mount

kept for sale at the ongoing Agri Expo site, 4th Mile Dimapur on Thursday

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Years on, after completing her high school from Little Flower School Kohima and higher secondary from Shillong, Kayizia made a reflective decision to study at the College of

Art, New Delhi, from where she graduated and definitely with more mastery over her skills. Inspired further, she went on for a one year diploma course in 3D animation from Picasso Digital Media, Delhi. And since then, Kayizia has held several exhibitions showcasing her artworks and designs in the big city (Delhi), the USA and Hong Kong.

Kayizia not only sketch and paint but also designs clothes, shoes, belts, etc. By the time of standard 12 in the academics, she was al-ready designing clothes for herself and wear-ing them, which, of course started generating interest from friends who wanted their clothes designed by her.

The 26 year old from Sajouba village, held an exclusive exhibition at the Nagaland House, New Delhi earlier this March, capturing the at-tention of big media houses like the Hindustan Times, Asian Age, Asian News International, as well as the North East Sun magazine and other local newspapers in the regional level.

Exceptionally fond of colours like Pink and Black, she explains why; Pink because it is a hot and a nice colour and looks good on girls and the color Black for every reason. The re-cently held Naga Fest at New Delhi under the theme, “Random Lives and North East India” showcased her Tee Shirt Designs in her favou-rite colours.

To put on record, Kayizia has had several other shows for the University Evangelical Fel-lowship, the Kingdom International where she also won the first prize for the best Painting. Besides a solo show at Vasant Continental Ho-tel, Delhi and numerous other campus exhibi-tions in Delhi even while she was pursuing her love for art at the College of Art. Her most re-cent work can be seen sported by Alobo Naga and the Band on their T-Shirts.

The young freelance Artist & Designer, who also likes to manage events, passionately puts across that everything she sees makes her want to sketch. “I feel like sketching, whether it is raining or sunny with a little music in the background”, she expresses. She describes herself as a fun loving person, and yet, adds, “But when the time comes to be serious, I get pretty serious.”

Does anybody inspire her? Next to God, “Mom” is the word; even as the answer comes spontaneously as she goes on to say with a twinkle on her eyes, “Mom is my in-spiration for everything!” “My Mom designs ethnic traditional attires, while I thought of something modern. I used to check out her designs and further make my own by blend-ing the modern touch,” she says in a matter of fact way.

At present, Kayizia is occupied and fer-vently excited about the next Art Exhibition, which, she is working with Theja Meru and scheduled to be held at Dream Café from 30th November to 7th December, 2012. Fol-lowing this, she would be launching her own brand called “Urban Naga” on the 12th of December, 2012 by way of hosting a fashion show under the banner, “Urban Naga Fashion Show”.

My idea of “Urban Naga” comes as a re-sult of focusing more on traditional attires in a modern way. “Changing from folk to ur-ban”, she explains.

The Urban Fashion Show will involve 11 designers including Seyie Zecho, Cynthia Kolakhe, Theja Sekhose, Sekuzo Sovenyi, among others and models including Eloni Komou, Naomi Ringa, Ashuli Kolakhe, Ka-pani Kadena, etc. The fashion show would be jointly organized with Liyo Kikon, Cynthia, Ruth Chang, Jacinta Zaphu, Shan Kikon, and Along Longkumer. About her venture, she

candidly confesses, “I feel like this is the first time for Mao people as well.”

With many a creative plans on the pipe-line, she is further looking at another fashion show in Delhi sometime next year while a Creative Store is coming soon!

Her inspiration is not the customary or the generic. “I want to do something unusual. I don’t want to throw anything, and so, I col-lect wastes…I collect plastics, unused tapes, etc and make designs out of it; these can be used as decorative pieces”, she explains.

In just a couple of months since she re-turned home to make her base here, Kayizia Cynthia Kolakhe has been making waves by simply indulging herself in colours, paints, fashion, clothes and designs. “Urban Naga” is perhaps best explained in her words, “we live in a modern world.”

And as she continues to paint in the modern art form using the mediums of char-coal, oil, fabric on canvas, techno art, etc, the young artist is definitely looking at bridging the gap between folk and urban.

On her journey from then and now, she remembers artistic people like Theja Meru, Alobo Naga and Sophy Lasuh outside the realm of family, who she says have truly been encouraging and inspiring.

Cynthia loves listening to music and it is most certain, music is an integral part of her life. “I listen to music when I paint…it is on whatever I may be up to.”

At 80, Longrichiba Pongener is an ex-tremely busy man. He is more likely to be in Dimapur or Kohima attending to a patient or a client than at home, resting as someone his age should.

So after many phone calls and weeks of waiting I finally managed an interview in Mokokchung. And what a pleasant surprise the meeting turned out to be! You see, his reputation exceeds him and since it took me so many days to arrange this meeting, I expected that he would be something of a celebrity healer but instead he was this little amicable man with a gentle aura and a pair of wizened eyes twinkling with mischief. He has a soft voice. But what got me staring were his palms; they were scarred and stained with years of tearing roots and rubbing leaves, the juices had left a permanent wiry path. A palm reader’s nightmare definitely.

I also gathered that he is a man who likes to get to the heart of the matter immediately because as soon as the basic introductions and explanations were over, he started off. “Grandpa (referring to himself) was a tiger until I met Jesus during a Revival and threw out my tiger spirit. I heal people’s ailments through prayer, make

medicine using herbs, fix broken bones, mas-sage and find stolen cars”. I was not ex-

pecting the last statement and what was he again? A tiger? I have a

thousand questions however this pause is mine not his. He says that he has been a bonesetter since he was seven years old. Nobody taught him how to do it; all he remembers is just following his instincts. He calls it a gift. “The medicine mak-ing”, he says, “is more recent. It’s been just a few years…I think it was in ‘75 or ‘76 that I started making medicine using leaves, seed and bark”.

He then fishes out three little plastic bottles of tonic from his bag that he hands to his clients. They are crudely labelled, scrawled with just the name of the ailment. The smell mistreats your senses badly. And though most of us who are not acquainted with herbal cures would need a certain degree of trust or even belief to down a spoonful, yet people come to him with special requests for these tonics. Longrichiba has an im-peccable reputation as a healer and has a long list of grateful clients who would testify of the effectiveness of these tonics.

Though he prepares herbal solutions as per the client’s need, he has his regulars. Among them is an uncoated pellet of crushed leaves, roots, barks and stems for intestinal problems. These are made only once a year because not only is it difficult to procure the raw material but the process of making it is complicated and takes days. He tells me that he cleanses himself spiritu-ally through fasting and prayer during this time and no one is allowed to come to the house when

he is making these pills. In 2011 he made 37,000 pellets. He is gracious to reveal that he uses the touch-me-not in almost all of his preparations. However, of late the plant is not as abundant as it was years ago, touch-me-not in Mokokchung is disappearing, he says. He collects all his plants from the wild and does not cultivate any. When I ask him if he has anybody helping him, he replies that he had an ‘agent’ collecting leaves for him for many years but he had passed away. Now that it’s difficult for him to be climbing ledges and venturing deep into the forest, he asks people to collect for him though for some special ones he has to go himself.

His medicines are more oral than topical which shows his confidence and experience in his trade. So when I ask him if he would be will-ing to send his medicines to be tested in a labo-ratory, he says without hesitation that he would. He then pauses for a while and tells me “Do you know, our land is filled with medicines? That ev-ery leaf and plant around you is medicinal? We just have to open our eyes. We are always go-ing to need medicines and God has given our land so many that we should take care of it”. He goes on to add, “I don’t need advertisement. I have so many people coming to me with so many requests that I cannot give time to all of them but people should know about our land and the plants in it”.

He has no other profession and is a full time herbalist and bonesetter. He doesn’t even crop a field as the rest of the villagers do. Despite not knowing how to read and write and being barely able to write his name, he is known to give point-ers to students appearing for their board exams on what to study and what not to. He says that he prays and God shows him the answers. He also talks about love potions and how to make them, divorce charms and how when he was not a Christian he would talk to beings from the oth-er world. I would like to know more about these stories but he asks me not to pursue further as he no longer practices them. It was very difficult for him to denounce his tiger spirit he says. People flock to him with requests to chase evil spirits, cure enchantments, prayers for success in UPSC, NPSC and election prediction. “It’s a gift” he re-peats. I ask him if he would ever take an appren-tice or if his children are following his footsteps. He mulls over this and says he can teach whoever is willing to learn about the herbs but that the hindsight, knowledge, and vision that he has in-herited is not in his hands, it is God’s to give.

After a pause he says, “This is how it is and this is all there is. I have nothing more to say.”

[This is one of the stories from Greencache magazine, a biannual publication of the Nagaland

Bio Resource Mission (NBRM).

Touch with a traditional healer

Gifted with artistic hands and a creative mind, Kayizia Cynthia Kolakhe never gave a thought of becoming an artist. But she vividly remembers spending all her leisure time sketching, since her childhood days. “I would

draw on the walls, on the papers, and wherever there is empty space”, she reminisces.

by Sentinaro Alley

Mirror Plus2 Eastern Mirror | dimapursaturday | november 17 | 2012

A mountaintop experience could be termed, as American psycholo-gist and philosopher Abraham H. Maslow said, is sudden feelings of intense happiness and well be-

ing, and possibly the awareness of “ultimate truth” and the unity of all things. According to him, accompanying these experiences is a heightened sense of control over the body and emotions, and wider sense of awareness, as though one was standing upon a mountain-top. The experience fills the individual with

wonder and awe. He feels at one with the world and is pleased with it; he/she has seen the ultimate truth or the essence of all things. Maslow de-scribed such experiences as self-validating, self-justifying moments with their own intrinsic value; never negative, unpleasant or evil; disoriented in time and space; and accompanied by a loss of fear, anxiety, doubts, and inhibitions. Maslow said that all individuals are capable of such experi-ences. Those who do not have them somehow depress or deny them. In-dividuals most likely to have mountaintop experiences are self-actualized, mature, healthy, and self-fulfilled. Maslow called such experiences Peak experience.

I am inclined to agree with Maslow as far as the definition of the moun-taintop experience is concerned. The rest may be debatable, but that is not my intention here. Just recently, in fact just two weeks back,

I had such an awesome experience in a far away corner of the north-east between India and burma. Till last year our church had a mission field in the Brahmaputra river banks and after working there for the last twenty five years we decided to hand over this field to the native people, the Mis-ings. While working hand in hand with the Misings, sometimes we were elated and had peak experiences but oftentimes deeply discouraging rock bottom experiences too. Leaving that mission field was heart breaking but we had to do it for their own good.

During the last few years our church has been undertaking some mis-sion exploration and study trips to different Indian cities, parts of the north-east and our last and final destination was areas of Myanmar that has its boundary with Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. We had great an-ticipation for this trip mixed with a feeling of doubt about our ability to trek miles and miles of mountainous jungle terrain of mithun trails and of crossing the International boundary without permission. At the back of our mind was also the nagging apprehension of the notorious Burmese soldiers, who, we heard, have no qualms in taking away any useful belong-ings one may have, if we meet them. Moreover, I personally had an unspo-ken anxiety as to how our own brothers and sisters in arms (NSCN) will react if we come across them. Added to these were the fear of leeches for many of us, which, it is said, are notoriously long and fat, and the worry about the kind of food we’ll get, and the weather if it turned inclement, weighed heavily in our minds. All these things played tricks on our nerves and several intending explorers backed out and only 8 of us brave hearts, which included three pastors and two ladies, were left to take on the chal-lenge.

This trip was a very important one for our church and was on the offing for a long time and it was being planned meticulously for one whole year. Our plan was to enter Burma through Wakka which was 4 hours drive from Khonsa, which is the headquarters of Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh, and from Wakka, which has the last military post next to the International boundary,and the office of the Circle Officer who is the administrative head of the area. We had to drive another 7-8 kms where the vehicles would drop us and we were to trek up the mighty Patkai Range with our personal packs. However, we made a technical error when we planned our itinerary with the help of our contact persons. The problem was that our main contact person had never been to this particular area, let alone trek-king through the mountains. Our plan was to visit and explore three Kai-san tribal villages beyond the border and our contact persons informed us that to reach the first Kaisan village named Kaisan Roko, takes only 2 hours for the people of that area even with 20 kgs of salt or rice on their backs. Accordingly we added 2 more hours to that and decided that it would take 4 hours for us to reach that village and, therefore, it would take two days for us to explore all the three villages. How wrong we were.

The vehicles dropped a us at a place near a stream flowing down the mountainside and we started trekking up the foothills of the Patkai Range with several young volunteers from the Kaisan Roko village helping us. The path up the mountain was just a mithun trail which in many places have turned into a deep gully which naturally turns into a small stream in rainy summer months. The stony trail was so steep that at places our foreheads almost scrapped the mangled roots and rocks in front of us and we had to drag ourselves up the trail holding unto small trees and inter-twined roots. Most of us had walking sticks which also helped push us up the mountain one step at a time.

The whole of the Patkai mountains are covered with tropical like jun-gles with centuries old humongous and sky high trees and all kinds of thick shrubs. It had a flora of its own and we savored the smell of the forest to the limit. The trees were covered with thick green moss which hang down like beards of ancient old men giving them a mysterious and spooky fairy tale look.

The climb was extremely hard and every muscle in our body was strained to the limit and aching and our limbs were ready to crumble under us anytime but we persevered with short breathers every now and then and non-stop sucking on lozenges of different flavors all the way. Af-ter endeavouring for about three and a half hours we reached the summit at an altitude of about 7000 ft. Reaching the summit had and experience of its own. I had an elation and a wanton kind of feeling as if nothing else mattered. The summit had an International Boundary Pillar engraved with Burmese on their side and with Hindi on the Indian side but since we could neither read Hindi nor Burmese, we could not make out the pillar number. Yet we were happy to be there, taking pictures for posterity and a well deserved rest. However, since the summit was forested we could neither view the Indian side nor the Burmese side.

Climbing down the Burmese side of the mountain after the ecstasy of reaching the summit was another story. Now it was as if we were climb-ing upside down. While climbing up the mountain, the strain was all at the back of our legs but now the strain was all in front of our thighs. We thought the villages in Burma will also be on mountain tops as in Nagaland, and so we thought we must be nearing the villages. We were wrong. On the Burmese side, the villages are on the side of the mountains and , therefore, we crawled down on and on but the village was nowhere to be seen and ,of course, the deep jungles so hemmed us in that apart from the tree trunks and the undergrowth, we couldn’t see anything else. The experience of the joy and elation of reaching the summit had, by this time evaporated into the thin Patkai mountain air and we were hungry, tired and not a little depressed.

The bright side of the whole journey was that it had not rained for nearly a month and, therefore, there were no fat long leeches to suck our blood.

(Rev Dr Toshi Langu is an Associate Pastor at Ao Baptist Church, Kohima and has an inherent interest in illuminating the intrigues and foible of the

versatility of human life through writing. The writer can be contacted at - langutoshi@yahoo.co.in)

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mirror time passAcross1. “Every ____ of a man is right in his own eyes.”5. This piece of sporting equipment is men-

tioned only once in the Bible (Isaiah 22:18).7. Where the Samaritan took the wounded

traveler9. In which book is Peter’s sermon at Pentecost

found?10. This man was a king of Egypt.11. Where did Samson die?13. Whom did Joab smite with three darts while

this man was hanging helpless from a tree?16. This is the mountain where Aaron was

buried.17. Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying,

“_____, _____, lama sabachthani?” (same word)

18. “Sallu, _____, Hilkiah and Jedaiah. These were the heads of the priests.”

19. What king came to Elisha for aid, and was told to shoot an arrow from the window?

23. For whom was the Sabbath made?24. What prophet called on the Lord to smite

the attacking Syrian army with blindness?26. Of what element were ovens usually made?29. What common household animal is not

mentioned in the Bible?30. What tree gave name to a famous hill over-

looking Jerusalem?31. Place where Daniel was thrown32. Place that Zacchaeus went to see Jesus as

He passed by33. Oldest son of Shem37. The people of Nazareth,”rose up and thrust

Him out of the city, and they led Him to the _____ of the hill.”

39. What golden creatures were included with the Ark of God as a trespass offering when it was returned to Israel by the Philistines?

40. One of the two tribes of Israel whose name had only three letters

41. Number of plagues God sent on the Egyp-tians

Down2. The king of this country was responsible for

carrying the ten tribes of Israel into captivity.3. The type of coat Goliath had4. “There shall come forth a Rod from the ____

of Jesse.”6. Previous name of Bethel; the place where

Jacob had the vision of the ladder to Heaven7. What book has the reference to Abraham as

being God’s “friend”?8. The name of the city where king Saul

ordered the eighty-five priests and their families killed for helping David

11. Language in which the New Testament was written.

12. Who tore his garment into twelve pieces, and gave Jeroboam ten of them to signify

that God would divide the kingdom?

14. The material of which the waterpots were made at the wedding in Cana of Galilee

15. What king had a bedstead of iron nine cubits long?

20. A town of lower Egypt whose priest’s daugh-ter Joseph married

21. With what did Abi-melech sow the city of Shechem after he had conquered it?

22. The seventy told Jesus, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your _____.”

25. What Esau received from Jacob in exchange for his birth-right

26. What animal did Re-bekah ride when she went to her wedding?

27. Jesus said His was “easy.”28. “How shall they ______

without a preacher?”32. How many times a day

did the priests burn

incense on the altar of incense?

34. Complete the quote, “A living dog is better than a dead ____.”

35. Who did Paul tell Timothy to bring with him when he came to Rome?

36. Word in the Bible that means “house” or “habitation”

37. Jesus told the paralytic to “take up his ____ and walk.”

38. Martha’s sister Mary, ____ at Jesus’ feet and heard His Word.

Answer in next issue of mirror Plus lAsT week’s Answers

Akho-o’s Mango Story

- by agnes tepa

season, in one of Akho-o’s man-go trophy receiving season, that something unusual happened which enabled Akho-o to discover something new.

Akho-o lived just beneath his school. So, whenever, the school bell rang for recess, instead of buying sweets and eatables from the street hawkers, he would go straight home and delightfully have tea and biscuits prepared by his mother. His mother knew how to prepare all sorts of eatables and always made sure that her sons loved the food she prepared, be it biscuits or ‘puri’ or ‘chana’ or any other thing. And Akho-o and his brothers always preferred to have the food items prepared by their mother rather than eat the food stuffs sold by the street vendors near the school.

It was one afternoon, during recess time, when Akho-o decided to have his mango-trophy while walking back to school at recess time. He had his usual tea and biscuits with his brothers at home and that afternoon intentionally chose to walk, behind his brothers at a snail’s pace, to school.

While his brothers dashed off to school fearing that the school-bell will ring before they entered their classrooms, Akho-o slug-gishly walked behind them eating his special-mango and hiding it behind him every time he took a bite of it. His hands dripping with mango juice, he was thoroughly en-joying every bit of it when sudden-ly he was jolted out of his mango reverie by the sound of the school bell. His brothers were clearly out

of sight and he was in for a good scolding from his teacher if he also didn’t run like his brothers did.

“But what about my mango?” he said to himself.

The school bell had rung, his brothers were gone and his mango was half-eaten. It was a real di-lemma for Akho-o. He had to make a quick decision. And he came up with the brilliant idea of hiding his half-eaten mango underneath some clean leaves. He decided he would finish the mango af-ter school and congratulated himself heartily for the bril-liant idea he came up with.

Akho-o could not wait for school to get over, that after-noon. He was all set, to rush off and be the first to come out of the school gate the mo-ment the school bell rang. So, no sooner did the bell ring, Akho-o dashed out of the school gate at the speed of lightning. Once out of the school gate, he ran even faster and when he reached the spot where he hid his pre-cious half-eaten mango, he was totally out of breath and was sweating and huffing and puffing.

“But what a reward!” he said aloud to himself as he opened the

covering of leaves to take out his half-eaten-mango-trophy, only to find his precious mango infested with an army of little black ants. His mango was beyond redemp-tion and his disappointment knew no bounds.

The only consolation Akho-o got out of this mango-disaster was the discovery he made, that day, that ants also have sweet tooth for mangoes.

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Naga writers to exhibit as well as hone their writing skills. Let the

readers be provoked through your art of story telling. Interested

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In one of the finer schools of Kohima town, there once studied a boy named Akho-o. He was very fond of mangoes and he donned a peculiar pig-

tail on his head, which he was very fond of too.

Although Akho-o was fond of his pig-tail, he often got into trouble because of it. At school boys were banned from keeping their hair long and a pig-tail was something one could not even talk about. So, whenever his pig-tail-locks of hair grew on his head, his teachers would be quick to chop it off with the sharpest scissors. And Akho-o’s dream of growing a fancy pig-tail never fully came true at school.

However, his dream of feast-ing on mangoes, his favourite fruit came true many a times during the mango seasons, even at school hours, if not at the school itself.

When it was time for mangoes to be sold abundantly in the mar-ket, Akho-o’s mother would purchase many kilos of it for Ak-ho-o and his brothers. And his mother, knowing about his fond-ness for mangoes would often hide and reserve an extra mango for Akho-o alone, telling him,

“Son, you have to promise me that you will behave better than your brothers because I’m giving you an extra mango to eat. And this mango is the yellowest and the sweetest of all the mangoes sold in the market.”

And Akho-o with a solemn, “Yes, mother, I promise to be-

have better than all my brothers,” would delightfully take his mango-trophy from his mother’s hand, while many a times wondering and marveling, at the same time, about how his mother knew how to choose the sweetest mango sold in the market place.

And he always found his espe-cially-reserved-mango the sweet-est and tastiest of all the man-goes.

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Mirror Plus 3Eastern Mirror | dimapursaturday | november 17 | 2012

Overlooking TicksAfter a walk in the woods or fields , you check yourself for ticks, right? Don’t forget about your dog. Tick bites put your dog at risk for Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and a handful of other diseases. They can also cause serious illnesses in cats. If your pet has infected ticks, this puts the rest of the family at risk. If you find a tick, remove it carefully with tweezers, being careful not to crush it. Ask the vet about anti-tick medicine.Ignoring RingwormIf your pet has a round bald patch, ringworm could be to blame. Leave this fungus untreated, and you’re putting your family at risk. People can get ringworm from dogs or cats by touch-ing their skin or fur. If you suspect your pet has ringworm, see your vet promptly.Not Bothering to DewormRoundworms are common parasites in both dogs and cats. They cause diarrhoea and vom-iting and may lead to serious illness. But many people don’t realize these worms are a threat to humans, too. An infected pet can contaminate soil or sand with tiny eggs. Kids may ingest the eggs by putting dirty fingers in their mouths. When the worms hatch inside people, they can cause blindness and other tissue damage. Ask your vet about regular deworming.Skipping Flea MedicineSkip your pets’ flea medicine, and they aren’t the only ones who will pay the price. Fleas will quickly set up shop on untreated pets, particu-larly in summer and fall, and fill your house with their eggs and young. Some people wind up covered in itchy sores. Fleas can also transmit serious diseases to people including bubonic plague. Ask your vet about once-a-month flea

medication and put a monthly reminder on your calendar.Not Spaying or Neutering Your PetMillions of cats and dogs live on the street or end up euthanized because of unwanted litters. Still, many people are reluctant to spay or neu-ter their pets. The fact is, spaying and neutering is a healthy choice for your pet. It reduces the risk of breast cancer in females and testicular cancer in males. Neutered males are also less likely to run away from home, mark their terri-tory, or exhibit aggressive behaviours.Providing Too Little ExerciseJust like people, pets need exercise to stay healthy. Couch potato pets are prone to obe-sity, which raises their risk of respiratory prob-lems and joint problems. The right amount of exercise for a dog depends on the breed and size, but Ii would recommend at least a half-hour each day. Taking brisk walks with your dog can help you get in shape, too.Providing Too Little AttentionJust like children, your pets will get bored if you don’t play with them. And boredom can lead to troublesome behaviours like chewing, digging, barking, and whining. Bored cats may resort to scratching and excessive meowing. Fight boredom by hiding treats for your pets to find around the house. Provide toys your cat can chase. Teach dogs to play fetch, tug-of-war, or hide-and-seek.Setting No RulesSome people expect their pets to know right from wrong without being told. But human etiquette does not come naturally to dogs and cats. You need to make it clear that jumping up on people, scratching the furniture, and peeing on the carpet are unacceptable. Be consistent

about the house rules, and reward your pets for good behaviour. If you need guidance, con-sult a trainer promptly. Leaving Young Kids UnsupervisedMost children adore animals, but sometimes their enthusiasm can lead to someone getting hurt. Young kids may play too rough, pushing a dog or cat to strike out in self-defence. Be sure to supervise play time when a new pet joins the family. Set rules for how children should treat the pet and teach them to recognize the signs that a dog or cat wants to be left alone.Giving Milk to CatsThe idea that cats thrive on milk is a myth. In fact, the opposite is often true. Most cats are lactose intolerant, meaning that they can’t properly digest the sugars in milk. This can re-sult in diarrhoea. While some cats can digest milk with no problems, they don’t need it. So , I would recommend skipping the milk.Letting Dogs Eat Spoiled FoodYour dog may be tempted to rifle through the neighbour’s garbage in search of a treat, but don’t let her! Food gone bad is no healthier for pets than it is for people. Dogs who eat gar-bage are at risk for bacterial food poisoning or irritation of the pancreas. Spoiled food may also contain toxic moulds , which can cause vomiting, severe tremors, seizures, and death. Giving Bones to DogsWe may think of bones as a wonderful treat for dogs, but the bones can injure the teeth, tongue, or mouth. Bone fragments can get stuck in your dog’s windpipe, interfering with breathing. Bones can also get stuck in the digestive tract, where they will have to be removed with surgery or an endoscope. If your dog likes to chew, ask your vet about

safer alternatives.Feeding Dogs Table ScrapsIt can be hard to resist a dog that’s begging at the table. You look into those big eyes and want to share your food with your pet. But rewarding your dog’s barks or whines will only encourage more begging in the future. And then you can forget about quiet dinners with your family. If you want to share table scraps as an occasional treat, do it away from the table -- and use the food as a reward for good behaviour.Feeding Cats Only Dry FoodCats have a low thirst drive by nature, so they may not drink enough to stay well hydrated. Feeding them only dry food compounds the problem and can put them at risk for urinary tract disorders. To promote a healthy bladder, canned foods can be recommended , which are about 78 percent water. A fluid-rich diet is particularly important for cats with a history of urinary tract problems.Giving Up a Cat During PregnancySome women are advised to give up their cats during pregnancy, but is this necessary? The concern is an illness called toxoplasmosis, which is caused by a parasite found in feline stool. If a woman is newly infected during preg-nancy, her foetus could be harmed. But most people who have cats already have antibodies to protect against toxoplasmosis. I would ad-vise pregnant women to keep their cats after proper deworming and defleaing , but avoid handling cat litter if possible.

(Dr Michael Imti Imchen can be contacted for pet and animal care related queries and concerns at

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Now a days corruption can be seen everywhere. It is like a cancer in public life, which has not become so rampant and perpetuated overnight,

but in course of time. When we talk of corruption in public life, it covers cor-ruption in politics, state Governments, Central Governments, business, industry and so on. Public dealing counters in most all government offices are the places where corruption most evident. If anybody does not pay for the work it is sure work won’t be done. Corruption is seen even in the recruitment agen-cies where appointments are ensured through reliable middleman.

People have grown insatiable appe-tite for money in them and they can go to any extent to get money. It is always crying for money and it has been seen the Officers who are deputed to look into the matter of corruption turn out to be corrupt. Some Leaders too are not less corrupt. Thus the network of corruption goes on as usual and remains

undeterred.Corruption is the Abuse of entrusted

power for private gain, corruption in any form is also treated as an incurable disease, a cause of many social and economical evils in the society and it damages the moral and ethical fiber of the civilization. Corruption often results from patronage and is associated with bribery. The worst situation is when the ruler extorts without giving anything in return.

It is you and me who should take a steps to correct the situation overall. A notion comes to my mind for a very effective way to end the corruption is to reduce the use of money power in Elections, Declarations of property and assets of the government employees and routine surprise inspections and raids be conducted at certain intervals. Though it will be very difficult to control corruption but it is not impossible. If there is joint effort it can be eliminated and to start we must have some high principles to follow so that we may be

models for the coming generation. Let us take a view to create an atmosphere free from corruption that will be our highest achievement as human beings.

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YouthNet has been instrumental in introducing the Right to Information (RTI) in Nagaland. The Right to Information cam-paign has been taken up with

the objective to challenge young people bring about transparency and account-ability and check corruption as a youth movement.

Prior to the approval of the Bill on Right to Information Act at the parlia-ment of India, members of the YouthNet formed a lobby group to advocate to the Government of Nagaland for sensitiza-tion of the same. Since then, YouthNet have been actively involved in the cam-paign.

Over the past 6 years YouthNet have had several workshops on RTI with different groups of people. Youth-Net have conducted RTI seminars and workshops with student unions, student federations, churches, college students, Government officials etc. YouthNet had reached out to more than thousand young people in almost all the districts of Nagaland through its RTI program.

During workshops and seminars YouthNet encourage the participants to draft RTI applications and then submit it to the concern department. After the RTI application process and extraction of required information from the depart-ment; YouthNet, to check the authencity of the information received, conducts the Social Auditing and Public Hearing to promote transparency and accountability in the Government system. So far Youth-Net have conducted 5 Social Auditing and Public Hearing in Nagaland.

YouthNet has been awarded United Nation Youth Fund Award 2010-2011 from amongst 1500 applicants from 86 countries. With the award fund Youth-Net has managed to reach out to several groups of people through RTI programs to create more awareness.

YouthNet in partnership with the Ad-ministrative Training Institute, Govern-ment of Nagaland, under the direction of the Department of Personal and Training, Government of India had also conducted a campaign called the “Youth for Trans-parency” Campaign.

The two main objective of this cam-paign is to empower youths/students to become active members in the society towards checking corruption and assist-ing the Government in bringing transpar-ency, accountability and good gover-nance. After the launch, the team of RTI experts visited all the colleges within Kohima. Besides practical training to the youth/students attending the seminar cum workshop, this campaign offers an opportunity to the youth and the public at large to draft RTI Application ad-dressed to any Department in the State and submit it to YouthNet through any of our drop boxes places set in different locations/public places within Kohima.

To create more awareness on RTI amongst college students YouthNet in collaboration with the State Information Commission have conducted an essay competition for all the Colleges in Na-galand on the topic “The role of Youth in bringing good governance through RTI”.

“Though someone is dying; thank God that you are still ALIVE”“Maybe you thought of ending your life right now, but don’t you think that it’s worth proving to the world that you can still LIVE then to die?”“The moment you stop believing in yourself is the moment you stop believ-ing in God; because He LIVES in you”“To be poor is the best way to know LIFE”“Today I died for tomorrow’s LIFE is mine”“I didn’t came to this world for the sake of employment, but to enjoy LIFE”

- Wedekhro naroKohima College, Kohima

The day was frigid, the sun shinning brightly but it was still very cold. Halfheartedly I left my warm bed; after all I had to start my day. I head for shower anyhow….and sat for break-fast, hoping my warm cup of morning tea will

somehow warm me up. Then my usual tedious ring tone that I hardly get time to change rang. It was my boyfriend on the other line.

We talked as usual, when did you wake up? What’s the plan today? so and so…..when all of a sudden I got so riled, nothing about him made me happy. He got furi-ous too and after talking for a while things got grave. I am not the one to sober down so I jump to-Lets Break Up!!!. He was silent for a moment or two and said OK!.

Now I was angrier, ‘Bye’ I said and hung up. So, there went my cup of warm tea and my boy-

friend of two years.I loved him, and he loved me too. However, things

were not as right as I imagine when we first met and dated.

I was felling more cold; I didn’t feel like doing any-thing but slip back underneath my blanket and cry it out.

I rang my friends because I had to tell them that I was going through this- ‘Break up trauma’.

I rang my best two buddies they were both sad and very supportive to me and like many good friends I am sure they both quoted similar line-‘You deserve better’.

Actually hearing that made me more sad, after all who wants just Ex Boyfriend to be label worthless. But I somehow guzzled that.

Nothing made me warm, and everything was very saddening. I admit I cried, and it made my heart lighter, I should say.

I missed my breakfast and lunch too. I just didn’t want to get out of my bed it has been five hours. Heard mom call me once but I didn’t respond.

Nothing was going as I plan the previous day. But I woke up realizing I can’t be spending the whole day thinking and crying. So I begin to do my undone works, changed my ringtone, folded the piles of tried cloth that was lying in my chair for weeks and arrange my closet. I mopped my room too. All the work was done.

I sat down thinking what to do next, the sun has gone down too, but I wasn’t feeling that cold after all I was working.

Just than my phone rang now the tone was some-thing ebullient because I have changed it, it was my ‘Ex boyfriend’ ringing. Multiple thought wrestle in my mind should I pick or I shouldn’t, even if I pick how do I talk…..the phone was ringing again so I picked and we talk and talk and talk its been three years now we still talk and we are deeply in love.

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With the theme “As long as I have music”, TNCC is back after 6 years, and is all

set to take the stage to perform one more time to enthrall the audience with Church music, the genre that the choir is popu-larly known for. Mention may be made that TNCC performed its last concert in 2005 at Dimapur.

This time round, what makes the event more appeal-ing is that many of its members have tied the knot during the in-tervening years and the concert will feature married couples sharing the same stage; all out

to give glory to ‘The One’ who has given them the music.

Talking to the press this eve-ning, TNCC members expressed their happiness to be together again and at the same time ex-pressed their desire to keep on singing as long as they have the music. They voiced their desire to keep on singing as they feel that it is God’s calling to them, adding that “God is the giver of music and we give back to Him our talents for His glory.”

“There is no retirement in singing”, one member said, also informing that some of the choir members to perform this time are in their 40s. Another

member said, “The love of mu-sic always brings us together.”

The Sunday evening con-cert, which is being organised by Baptist Youth Fellowship Dimapur, will feature 26 choir members and they will be pre-senting 18 songs.

The tickets for the concert are prized at Rs 250 per head.

The Nagaland Chamber Choir (TNCC) was established in August 2003 by a group of dedicated Naga professionals in Church music. With members trained in some of the finest institutes overseas, TNCC was formed to promote Church music and bring to a level of

professionalism in Church music. Members of TNCC come from all walks of life who have a passion and zeal for Church music.

TNCC’s primary vision is to provide a platform for musicians where talents are sustained for effective minis-try, reaching out to all tribes, people and Churches and developing music as a whole for the glory of the Giver of music. It also performs and seeks to develop local talents.

The Chamber Choir, since its formation, has been blessed tremendously in witnessing and promoting sacred music within

and outside the State. TNCC has performed at

Birmingham, UK in 2005 at the Baptist World Alliance Confer-ence. It also has the distinction of having performed in United States, Korea and some other cities in UK.

In India, the Chamber Choir has performed in Goa, Kolkatta and Guwahati. In all these, it has represented the State and Nagaland Baptist Church Council.

The press conference was attended by Dr Lima Pongen, coordinator TNCC and members including Aroko Nagi, Meripeni Zares and Jethro Merry.

Salman Rushdie and Padma Lak-shmi’s marriage may have lasted only three years but the Top Chef host says they had great time together because the Booker prize

winning author “was a great wit and flirt”.In an interview, where the Chennai born

supermodel appears in a series of revealing photographs, the 42-year-old celebrity has praised her ex-husband, who is 23-years her senior.

“Now there is somebody who has great wit and is a great flirt. I don’t regret a day I spent with Salman, but it was tiring. He has a big life, and it only got bigger when we were together. I’m happy to have stood next to him holding his hand, but we were in very different parts of our lives.”

The marriage of Lakshmi and Mumbai born author had baffled many as Rushdie is not known for his good looks while the supermodel has made a career out of her looks.

“Comments like that came out of ignorance. If you saw us together you would know exactly why we were together.” The couple’s marriage lasted three years until 2007, with Padma going on to have a baby daughter Krishna, now two-years-old, by computer mogul Adam Dell.

Rushdie, 65, is not so generous about his fourth ex-wife in his recently published memoir ‘Joseph Anton’. Describing her as ‘Millenarian Illusion’, Rushdie has painted Lakshmi as someone who was ambitious and celebrity-seeking. Rushdie said Pad-ma’s beauty swept him over because she “seemed to contain his Indian past and his American future.”

The original hit song ‘Tring Tring-Marks of war’ turned out to be the favourite of

many. The Senator was all appreciation for the band and their music which re-marking it as ‘the warrior song.’

The band also played some popular numbers from Bollywood Hindi songs and old classic like stairway to heaven -Led Zeppelin as a dedication to the Senator.

While playing a cover of the Beatles song ‘Come together’ the Senator who himself is an avid musician jumped out from his chair in excitement to join the band and jam together.

An obviously im-

pressed Senator Strauss after the jamming session made sure of inviting the band to come and play in the United States.

Purple Fusion is an experimental band which incorporates different aspects of Naga traditional music, like rhythm, chants, vocal melodies with western instruments and with genre and may not necessarily have the rock influence.

It diverts from the main stream rock and pop to exotic ethnic music.

Just two months old, Purple fusion band members are Lamtsala Sangtam – vocals, Rhonbe Ezung – Guitar, Mhathung Odyuo – Bass and Temsu Kichu – Drums.

Just two months old, the band have already played and shared stage with big names like John W Schlitt (Petra), Rahul Ram (Indian Ocean), Rewben Mashangva- Father of Folk.

On the projects at hand, the band will be leaving for a shooting trip for their upcoming music video. For this, they have tied up with a videographer from Hawaii. For telecast, the band is already in talks with some Music channels (names not mentioned).

Purple Fusion is also planning to tie up with a national TV channel in December.

You can follow them @ https://www.facebook.com/PurpleFusionofficial

In an interview, Farrell discusses life with 9-year-old son James, born with Angelman Syndrome; a neuro-genetic disorder

characterised by intellectual and developmental disability.

Getting involved with the Foundation For Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST) “changed his life”, the actor dis-closes. “When you’re the parent of a child with special needs, it’s important to feel that you’re not alone,” he explains.

Farrell waited until James

was four years old before dis-cussing his condition and since then has been a strong supporter of the work of FAST.

“It was at the Special Olym-pics in Shanghai in 2007 that I decided, after consulting with James’ mother, that I wanted to talk publicly about the pride and joy I had in our son. He has enriched my life, but I don’t want to minimise the trials that so many families go through: the fear, consternation, frustration, and pain.

“We share in the smallest

victories: the first words at age 6 or 7, being able to feed oneself at 19, and getting the seizures under control. When James took his first steps at age 4, I nearly broke in half!”

Farrell uses the opportunities extended to him during film pub-licity work to raise awareness of the condition as well as the need for fund raising.

He told chat-show host David Letterman, in an interview last year that the relative rarity of the condition (which is diagnosed in around one in 25,000 children)

means “there’s not that much funding because it doesn’t ben-efit the pharmaceutical compa-nies, of course”.

Compared to children who are really suffering from illness, though, Farrell feels his son is doing well.

“It’s a life of therapy for him,” he told Letterman. “You just kind of watch him on his path and see where it takes him and don’t have any expectations - hope reigns supreme - but I should say my boy is a really happy boy.”

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The Nagaland Chamber Choir (TNCC) will be presenting a concert on November 18 evening at Imliyanger Memorial Chapel Hall, Dimapur starting 6 pm.

At the exclusive concert organized by the Tourism department at NAPTC Complex Chumukedima on November 14 evening for the US senator and other visiting dignitaries, Purple Fusion’s presentation of their originals Naga folk fusion songs earned rave reviews from the visitors.

Irish actor Colin Farrell says charity work has helped him cope with raising a child with disabilities.

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“1st happy Birthday”kaka chonchibeni r. Tungoe, May your days be fulfilled with joy, laughter and success. You will grow in wisdom, knowledge and understanding. You will be the best amongst your peers, you shall be outstanding in all you do. God bless you, dear baby. Happy Birthday!loving Dad, mom, near & dear ones

Dearest Dakwe (U knw who you are), Kenei kepenuo teisozha..... Here’s wishing you the very best birthday ever..... Have a blast!!!!! Always, khelolo

TNCC back after 6 years for ‘His Glory’

Miss Phek Beauty Pageant, 2012 is scheduled to be held on November 27 at Pfutsero Town during Chakhesang Runyie Festival.

The organizing committee has informed all interested candidates that forms are available at Multiplex, Redcross Cmplex or unlimited, LCS building, Midland Kohima. Candidates must be between the age of 17 and 23 years. Last date of form submission is Nov 19.

The cash price for the pageant is Rs 50,000 for Miss Phek, 30,000 for 1st runner-up & 20,000 for 2nd runner-up. Besides, there will be complimentary prizes. Sub-titles will be selected and cash prize along with gift hampers will be awarded.

For further details, one can contact Con-venor Organising Committee, Chisalu Nukhu, @8974001238

Miss Phek beauty pageant on Nov 27

Purple Fusion plays for US Senator Faith based movie ‘Life Rewind’ released

Salman Rushdie was a great wit and flirt, says Padma Lakshmi

Colin Farrell opens up about son’s disabilities

Purple Fusion performing during the visit of US Senator Paul Strauss and some dignitaries from Thailand and Laos hosted by the Department of Tourism, Nagaland

Nagaland DGP O Alem (IPS) (3rd from left) during the release of the faith-based movie “Life Rewind” produced by Aoyimti Baptist Church, Dimapur on November 16. Life Rewind is directed by Tiakumzuk Aier of Dreamz Unlimited, Theatre and Film Production (extreme right). The movie CD will be available at La Premiere, Notun Basti, Word of Christ, OM Books, Potala Resturant, Encore Music Store, Daniel Recharge Shop 2 ½ Mile in Dimapur and ICTV in Chumukedima. In Kohima, it can be availed from Dream Café, Highway Shop, Opp Fira Hotel. In Mokokchung at Eastern Book Depot and Breadbasket Bakery & Store below TTBC

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