There’s more to celebrate than UPSC

There’s more to celebrate than UPSC 

- Thangkhansuan Gualnam

With the declaration of the UPSC 2019 result, there has been an interesting development of conversation online, mainly on WhatsApp groups. The sentiment in most of the conversation has been that of disappointment. This is because, of the 829 selected candidates, none has been from our community. Now knowing the competitive nature of the said exam and expecting someone from our community to be on the list every year, I think the confidence we have on our youth is commendable. At the same time, it is frightening for our youth the amount of expectation and high standard of success set by our society. I’m no expert on “how to crack the Civil Service exam” and I do not have a YouTube Channel with videos about the tricks for such an exam. As such the objective here is not to analyse why our youth could not clear the exam this year or to give any advice on what to next and how to prepare for it. The objective here is rather of a larger issue, and it’s also a continuation of the personal discussion with friends or classroom discussions with professors over the years. 

Being a young university student and soon to be job hunting from place to place myself, I had some problems with the kind of conversion happening around the idea of “success” that

Lamka Bazar area ah Gamdangmi (non-local) 2,000 vél um

Lamka Bazar area ah Gamdangmi (non-local) 2,000 vél um

Dukân lian leh mun pawimaw zosia Kawlte’n lua

- John Suantak

Manipur a ding ah ‘Second town’ ti ah minvua hial ah um, Churachandpur district sung ah Bazar leh mun pawimaw zosia chu gamdangmi (non-local) te’n a luadim mai uh hilo in, sumkawlveina dukan lian leh pawimaw ma ma te chule a luasuak phialu’i. A mau ziak in Lamka khawpi sung ah inn lua man a tam ma ma hi ti thei phial in a um hi, a ziak chu, a In lua man mai hilo in, gamdangmite’n mun pawimaw a lua theina dingu a hi phawt leh In neite kiang a deposit lakh 2/3 a kawi ngam ziak un ziagual ah mun pawimawte changkha hi in a muthei hi. Ziak a chun, gam neitu kitite a ding in mun pawimaw lua ding chu thil haksatak a suak hi. 

Nidang in Bazar area bep in um male’u, gamdangmi hung kibelap zel dungzui in, Veng sung ning tin phial in muthei in a um tau a, khawcha (village) na tiang inle muthei a hi tau. 

Zomi Students’ Federation (ZSF) GHQ in a chiata May-June, 2018 sung survey a bawlna’u a chun gamdang mi Lamka ah sumkawlvei ah hunglut lak in Bihari a tampen ua, survey bawlkim vek zawlo himaleh inkuan