Naupan Lai: Hming Vanga Buaina

Tunlai in Mizo tawng ziah dan dik leh dik lo tih vel post te ka chhiar a. Tlem in min ti tim ve deuh. Ka ziak pawp pawp a nga, a diklo a awm pawn min hau su.


Kan Tet Lai: Hmarveng Biakin Kawt ah Ka Unaute Nen Thla Kan La

Kan naupan lai chuan Saidan ah kan inkhawm thin. Sikul pawh kha Saidan sikul atang khan pawl li ka pass a nia. Saidan chu kan ngaihdan chuan thing tak a ni ringawt. Kha tih hunlai kha chuan concrete bulding hi Saidan ah khan a la awm lo in ka hria. Rangva in nei te kha chu hausa tak an ni mai.

Chuan ka mizo hming hi ka zahpui thin a. Sikul ah leh Biakin ah hian ka ziak tel ngai lo. Ka first name chuah hi ka ziak a, a tih mizo nan a hma ah Lal ka belh kher zel. Laldavid-a kha ka hming pum a ni mai pawl li kan nih thleng khan. Chuan Saidan kohhran atangin Hmarveng ah kan pem a, tlem in boruak hip pawh a changkang deuh. Hmarveng kha chu member pawh an lo tam zawk a, zai te pawh a nuam tham.

Presbyterian pawh kan inti ngai lo a. Eng Kohhran nge i nih min tih kha chuan Mission kan ti tawp zel. Tunah hian naupang ho hian an la ti thin a ngem le?

Sawi leh ta thin ila, ka mizo hming ka duh loh thin zia kha aw. Saidan ah kha chuan buaina ka tawk hran lo. Laldavid-a kha ka ni mai a. Tuman tunge i mizo hming min ti ngai lo. Mahse pawl li kan han exam dawn a, board exam a ni si. Buaina ka tawk ta! Kan zirtirtu Pu Chawnga'n office ah min ko a. "Mizo hming i neih a ngai" a ti a. Ka thin chu a sa but but a. Ka sawi ngam bawk si lo ka hming pum kha. Ka ngawi reng a. Pu Chawnga vek chuan-

"Eng hnam nge in nih?"

"Hmar Varte"

"Chuti chu David Varte tiin kan ziak mai ang i hming hi."

Hmingpum ziah ai chuan a zia deuh in ka hria a. Ka lung chu a awi zan chuang lo.

Hmar nih hi kan duh lo thei lutuk a. A chhan chu kan hmuh phak a Hmar ho kha kei ni ai a bal leh berh ve leh chhawng kha an nia. Kan zak deuh thin a. Kan hnam pawh hi ka nu in min hrilh tirh chuan ka duh lo a. Mahse, i duh e maw duh lo e maw, i nih tho tho a ngai a lawm a ti miau sia. Phur lo zet in Hmar Varte chu kan nih ve tak kha!

Pawl nga kan han nia. Saidan sikul ah kal reng theih tawh hek loh. Buaina hlir buaina hlir. Kan zirtirtu te khan ka hming ang kha an lo la hmu ngai si lo. Hming an han lam a, kan buai leh deuh nak thin. A tir lam phei kha chuan kan pawl a mi te ho kha ka hre hlawm vak bawk si lo a. Zahthlak duh haih haih thin teh mai a nia!

Nikhat chu Pu Ralliantawna'n, "Mizo hming i nei lo a mi?" tiin min han zawt leh a. Chutah ka bul a thu Zothantluanga chuan ring leng lawng hian ka mizo hming chu an sawi mai ah! Ka thin a sa up up a, ka thlan a tla zawih zawih bawk a. Kha mi ni khan Zothantluanga kha ka va han ngei tak e aw.....!! Ngam ila chuan tlai ban ah a bek ah arsa ka pe hrim hrim!

Chuan ka hming chu an han siam tha ta a. Tun thleng hian ka la pu hlen ve ta zel a ni.

Reading Mizo

Reading isn't really my passion yet I still remember myself reading a Mizo Newspaper (Aizawl Thupuan to be exact) while traveling in a local train on the way to my college. It was almost a decade ago. A Tamilian Guy sitting right beside me looked over the page I was on, as if he understood what's written there. Later, he asked me if I was reading a Spanish Newspaper.

"No," I answered.

"What language then?" He continued.

I said it's a Mizo Newspaper and he continued to ask me what the Mizo was. Finally, I reached my destination and got down from the train before he asked me who my girlfriend was and how I met her.

A couple of weeks back, I took my fiancee to airport and I was outside reading a Mizo Novel while she was in there. Thih Sak Pawh Ka Ngam by Darrokima, which is about their childhood back in seventies I believe. Every night, I used to have my fiancee read this book for me and I was on the page, which she was about to continue for the next night.

I really enjoyed these lines-

Sikul a han thlen chuan lalzira'n a lo pan vat a:

"Rema, tukinah i insil em?"

"Teuh nang, ka hmai chu ka phih."

"Lal a lo kal dawn a, Pu Thanga'n fai a en dawn an ti."

"Fai en ni a ni awzawng lo."

"Nilo mah se, Lal a lo kal dawn vangin a en dawn an ti vek a lawm."

"Ho e, hmai ka phih tho a."

"Rokhuma pawh insil tur in a haw leh a..."

"Haw peih tawh awzawng lo!"

"Pawilo, min hrem na lutuk vak chuang lo ang ti raw...?"

I even like this conversation much more -

"EE chu eng nge?"

"Ka hre bik lo. An thu lutuk an ti. Fakmawia pa chuan Aizawl leh Sialsuk inkar ah EE chu a thu ber a ti. An hausa rap a la ti zui mawle!!"

"SDO ai chuan an hausak bik ka ring miah lo."

"Teuh lo mai! Fakmawia pa chuan SDO hian pawisa thingrem khat nei ta sela, EE chuan thingrem thum vel an nei ang a ti mawle!"

While I was on these conversation, a man next to my bench asked me if I was reading a Korean Novel. I just said Nope and left the place before he asked me what the actual content of the book was.