Pu Sinthang Tonsing Tangthu a tomin
Kaihlam nuai ah November 15, 1932 ni in piang hi. A pianna nu leh pa in sihsan baihlua ahih manin a nu leh pa’ mel “thei milmial ing,” ci hi. Amau unau naupang mahmah lai tagah in hong khangkhia uh hi. A pa min Zellang hi a, a nu min Nemzaeng hi. Tua lai-in amau tenna innmun hoih lo hiding hiam, a mangmat simin a innuai uhah tuiluang mu den hi. A nu leh pate kum khat khawng bek kihalin a sih manun tagah genthei mahmah in hong khangkhia hi. Unau guk lakah li dam lai, sanggam numei khat leh pasal khat in hih leitung nusia zo uh hi.
KHRISTIAN SUAHNA: A nu leh pate Khristian suaksa ahih manin a neutung a kipanin Topa lam lunggulhna nei uh hi. Tangval ding kipat laitak nattun natna (malaria) thuak in gim mahmah a, sih ding bek ngakin lungkham in a om lai-in nek ding zatui cih bang omlo ahih manin Singkawna gah leh namtul singzung tui dawnin na kikem hi. Nattun natna (khuasik) hangin gimlua ahih manin a kha van lamah va pai-in Jerusalem khuapi va mu hi. Tua khuapi pen na taang pempam a, puanngo silh khat in, “Leitungah nasep ding tam lua lai hong pia thei nai kei niteh, na ciahkik in,” na ci hi. Tua panin Pasian in damna hong pia ding cih upna nei hi. Tua zawh sawt loin dam takpi a, a damkiksak Pasian muanhuai ahihna phawk hi. Tua-a kipan zu dawn leh vangtung gam tunglo ding kisakna lianpi nei hi.
PILNA ZONNA: Sangkah dingin Takvom khua panin Mission Compound (Lamka) ah na kuan hi. Sum leh pai masuan ding neilo ahih manin heiga, tuga leh lawi lokaihna ding singka (laangkawn) cih bang zuakin NEIGM mission piak tawh lai na sim hi. Laitan VII ciang tua bangin haksapi tawh na zo hi. Tua panin Churachandpur Secondary School ah Class IX na sim a, tua kum laivuan ma in sum haksatna leh America gam tung ding “Navy” galkap Tedim khua ah kila cih za ahih manin na pai vingveng hi. Lamka panin Tedim lam a lawmte thum tawh na zuan uh hi. Tedim a tun ciangun galkap kilakna pen Kalemyo ahih manin Kawlpi dong na paisuk a, a kilah leh na lapah uh hi. Amau zak bang na hi loin America pai ding galkap hi loin China gam a Chiang Kai-shek pawlte do ding na hi hi. Shan state ah training a lak zawh ciangun amah galkap sungah ganhing kem dingin kha guk sung veterinary training na sinsak uh hi. Tua training zawh ciangin kum khat sung galdo in na kuan a, galphual ah a om sungin galveng hi. Tua bangin sem leh kum guk zawh ciangin veterinary doctor hi ding ci uh hi. Lungkim zo loin tua panin tawp a, zatui nasep lam sepnopna na nei hi. Kum khat kum nih zatui zuak a khua tuamtuam ah a vazuak leh tuahpha mahmah hi. Tua panin compounder sin ding lunggulh a, maban sin dingin nakpi in hanciam hi.
NEK LEH TAK ZONNA: Topa in cidamna pia ahih manin septheih ding om bangbang hahkat takin semin hanciam hi. Compounder (zatang tuamtuam hel khawm a cina kep sinna) a lunggulh mahmah, a thungetna Topa in dawngin tua sintheihna dingin kumpi panin scholarship ngah a, tua tawh Imphal ah kum khat sung va sin hi. Tua sin theihna dingin certificate kisam a hih manin Class IX simna certificate Siapi Thianlam Vaiphei kiangah a va nget leh na pia pah hi. Compounder a sin zawh ciangin Kohima, Nagaland ah nasep va zong a, sepna ngah ahih manin Tuensang lamah pai hi. Tua munah siamah a sem Merenla Jamir tawh kimu in kiteng uh hi.
Manipur gamah zatui zuakna mah lunggulh ahih manin Nagaland lam nusia in hong kik uh a, zatui koi lai ah zuak leng hoih ding hiam cih ngaihsun in Singngat khua va pha hi. Tua Singngat khua ah sun hunin hotel khawngah laithai (cards) kimawlin sum kitah a muh ciangin ama sepna dingin hoih sa lo hi. Tua panin Bishenpur ah a behpa Jamkhanthang in sam a, tua laiah zatui sai hong ding a cih laitak Pa Thang in mundangah ah nasep kisuan kul ahih manin leh Meitei khua ah amah bek om ding a ngaihsut ciangin hoihsa theilo ahih manin khawlkik hi. Sugnu khua, Meitei te tenna khua mah ah ten ding khensat a, tua munah kumpi nasem Pa Vungkhawthang Tombing, Lianchinkhup Guite cih bang na om ahih manin amah zong tua laiah sumbuk khat hongin sumzon hong kipan hi. Tua lai-in a mangngilh theihloh khat pen a manglamin ama’n torchlight tawh Sugnu khua kim teng khempeuh tangsak hi cih mang mat hi. Tua mang panin Topa in hih munah kiphual dingin hong deih hi ding ci-in kipsak hi.
Sanginn khawngah pai in sangnaupangte kumpi phalna tawh vaccination va bawl koikoi a, Topa in midangte’ damna dingin hong zang thei hi cih mu hi. Sum leh pai muhna bek dingin ngaihsun loin midangte huhna leh Topa min tawh sepna in ngaihsun ahih manin nasep nuam sa hi.
TATE ADING LAIPILNA: Ama’n a lungulh zahin pilna laisin sim zolo, sim khalo kisa ahih manin a tate numei pasal sanginn hoih mahmah bekah kahsak ding “upna thuciam” in na nei hi. A tate laipilna ding ahih peuh leh bangmah hanciampih ngam loh ding neilo hi. “Sum leh pai hong pia leng, meikang leh gutate’n gu thei a, ahi zongin laipilna hong pia leng na damsung uh na khom ding uh hi,” ci-in a tate’ adingin ahih theih bangbangin saipih hi. 1985 pawlin a tanu lian pen Lucy Engjadim MRE kah dingin Tennessee Temple (USA) ah ama sum tawh na vak sawm hi. Guwahati a Reserve Bank of India khawngah India sum koih in Dimnu in US a tun ciangin na la ding cih bangin thu na vanpih hi. Tua zah in hanciampih ahih manin a tate tuni in amau mabunna ciatah lawhcing mahmah uh hi. Ama lunggulh mah bangin a tate in laipilna hih a nuai a bangin tuni in na nei uh hi.
1. Nu Lucy Engjadim, BRE, MA, Executive Director, Elim Resource Center, Guwahati
2. Pa Samuel Langkhanmung, MBBS, FCAMS, Addl. Medical Supt at DY Patil Hospital, Mumbai
3. Lia Martha Vungkhanching, Ph.D., Associate Professor, California State University, USA
4. Lia Elizabeth Haungaihman, MA, School Counselor, Hong Kong
5. Lia Jenny Chingkhannem, Ph.D. Scholar, University of London, UK
6. Lia Kareen Ninglianching, Ph.D. Scholar, Hong Kong University
7. Nu Esther Thianbiak, BA, Founder & Principal Montessori “Joy of Learning” School, Bangalore
LAWHCINNA THUGUK: Tagah a hong khangkhia, Topa in sum leh pai tawh thupha a piak ka mit tawh ka muh manin ama lawhcinna thuguk bang hiam cih ka dong hi. Ama’n hih a nuai a bangin hong dawng hi:
Pasian phawk ding thupi kasa masa penpen hi. Sum leh pai muh bek hi loin, tua sumte bang ci zang na hiam cih ki-et ding thupi hi. Tua loin hauhna pen tomcik sungin maimang thei hi. Sum leh pai ih neih hangin Pasian mangngilhna in zat ding hi loin amah phawkna leh hong piapa’ ahih manin zahtak ding hi.
Sawm-a-khat hoih takin pia ding. Sugnu a sumbuk panin a kingah bangbang sawm a khat (1/10) hoih takin piak ding hanciam a, tua bangin piato ziahziah hi. Tuni dong tua bangin a hanciamna lenkip ahih manin Topa in thupha hong pia hi, ci hi. Moreh ah sumbukpi na nei in, leitung unau melmak hangin tua lam tawpsan hi. Kum 2002 panin missionary khat vak ding na kipanin tuni dong mah vak thei hi.
Numei leh pasal vaiah thumaanna pen Pasian thupha sanna hi. Zatui a zuak lai-in sun leh zan mawtaw tawh zin koikoi hi. Ama mawtaw hawlpa (driver) bangin sum leh pai hauh manin numei tungah a gamtang dingin na muangmawh hi, tua banga a gamtat lam a muh loh ciangin lamdang sa mahmah hi. Sum leh pai neih manin mi tanu suksiatsak ding hilo hi cih pen ama thupi hi. Tua hangin a mawtaw hawlpa in zong kibawl hoihna in zang hi.
Diktatna, thumaanna pen lawhcinna bulpi hi. Thumaanna pen sum leh pai zonna ah baih zenzen lo hi. Ahi zongin tup leh ngim in nei tawntung hi. Mi diktatte Pasian in domsang teitei hi. Sum leh pai ama khangah a neihpah loh hangin thupha namtuamtuamah sang teitei hi.
Hauhna leh pilna ding lamdawt (short-cut) zong ken. Tomcik sunga hauh ding i sawmna hangin sum leh pai zonna ah zuak loh ding pi kizuak thei hi. Ahi zongin hun saupi ngaihsun theite adingin hauhna zong ngak kul hi. Tomcik sungin hauhna hong tun ciangin hauhdan kisiam nailo ahih manin kizangkhial thei hi. Hauhna kibung, lawhsam i cihte a tamzaw lamdawt zuih man hi nuam mahmah hi.
U leh naute kepna hanciam ding. Topa in unau khat sungah i vekpi-in hong domto khin lo hi. Sum leh pai lama cihtheihna neite’n zong u leh naute huh theih bangbangin huh ding hi. Tagah a khangkhia ka hih manun Topa in koh unau kem dingin thupha hong pia hi ding hi, cih ka ngaihsutna hi. U leh naute ka khual manin Aizawl khuapi ah teng den loin Lamka lamah ka kileh kik hi.
Ama hehpihna vaang hang hi. A taktak in ci leng, Pasian hehpihna leh vangpiakna loin bang mah tan kitung theilo hi. Tua bek hiloin, ka zi Merenla zong zuau gen thei lo, thutang mahmah khat hi. Topa in thudik thumaan in a gamta leh a kemcingte thupha pia hi cih kei muh dan hi.
LA DEIHTUAM A NEIH: “Aw Hehpihna Khawvel Vakna” (Pathian Ngaihla 375, Dawng nih hong kisuaksak lo hi)
Aw hehpihna khawvel vakna
Kalvari tang sing khros tungah
Ka Toupa’n a hon bawl
Ka ngaihtuah chiang’ lamdang lua sa’ng
Sihna mulkimhuai kei di’n thuak
A sisan hong luang khia (2)
I ngaklah ni hong tung pah ding
I Toupa’n hon pikhawm nading
Topa mel muta ning
Khensa vualngaih u leh nau mu’n
Tangtawn khuapi tualah leng ning
Lawp veng lailung zuang veng (2)
Khawvel tawp chiang thangvan tualah
A tatsa teng kikhawm ding hi
Nunnuam sawlbang hei ding
Tua ah lungkham, buai, kahnate
Sih kikhen luankhi nul omlou
Nuam in kum veita ni (2)
THUKHUPNA: Ka sunghpa’ Pu Sinthang Tonsing tangthu a kicing ahih loh hangin tutung PATE NI i zat tawh kituakin i phattuampihna a om khak leh cihna in kong gelh hi. A tanu Dimnu tawh ka kiten zawh uh kum 26 sungin amah tawh kithuzakna, holimna leh mailam kalsuan dingzia kikupna tamveipi ka nei thei uh hi. Leitung thu leh Pasian thu ama muhzia leh khantohna ding nasepna a lunglut dan ka theihpih hi. Tuni dongin ama sep theih omte thanuamtakin sem hi. Guwahati hong hawh ciangin zan khua bus tawh hong pai hun bang om a, tua bang ciang zong gim leh tawl gen loin sunhun khempeuh a sep ding na sem hi. Kum 1997 a Lamka buaina hangin Moreh ah a zatui zuakna innpi leh a sunga zatui khempeuh taisan hi. Tua bangin supna a neih hangin lungkiatna in zangloin a sep theih khempeuh khat bek siitloin tuni dong sem hi.
“Tulai tuailai hi leng America gamah pilna sinin, nasem in ka kilawh ding,” ci hi. Amah, tangval ding a kithawi laitakin zong America gam tun na sawm zo hi. Laisiamna pakta mahmah ahih manin a tate laipil ding deihna hangin sanginn hoih kicihna peuhpeuh ah na puak pahpah hi. Innkuan kikhopna a kineih ciangin phatna la a lunglen hong sa thei zel hi. Khatvei hong zin lai-in nitak innkuan kikhopna ka neihna uhah, a la deih dang khat: “Aw itna lamdang, aw tatna manpha, Ka khelh sawpsiang ding, a man piak thupi, Hiai thu hoih gen un hotdamna man bei, Mi khial kei ading, itna lamdang hi” cih khitui taak ngelhngelh in hong sa hi. Amah zong mikhial maisak ahih manin hoih lohna tampi nei kha ding hi. Ahi zongin ama tangthu panin Zomi papite’n thathak i lak ding deihna tawh hong kisuaksak hi. Topa in note thupha hong pia hen.
Rev. Dr. J.M. Ngul Khan Pau
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