tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post5035654228823027703..comments2024-03-28T10:23:52.546+05:30Comments on Mizohican: Chp 421. How Mizo am I?Mizohicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09644240783333879705noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-49249815120228446042024-01-12T15:44:39.705+05:302024-01-12T15:44:39.705+05:30Sri Lankans hate Kashmiris, Mizo, Sikkimese, Meite...Sri Lankans hate Kashmiris, Mizo, Sikkimese, Meitei, Odias, Telugus, Kannadigas, Konkanis, Punjabis, etc. because they attack native Tamils. Malaysian Tamils and Singaporean Tamils hate Kashmiris, Sikkimese, Meitei, Mizo, Odias, Telugus, Kannadigas, Bhojpuris, etc. hate Sri Lankan, Malaysian, and Singaporean Tamils because they attack native Thamizhars. ஸோதாமகபோ ூபோஸகெபோீ மகலகோஜஜஹீ ூோஸகதோீோல Malaysian/Singaporean Tamils with roots from Sri Lanka hate Indian tribes. Sri Lankan-origin EEC Thuraisingam hated Kashmiris, etc. including cabinet members like Dato M. Subramanian, etc. hated Kashmiris, Mizo, etc. because they are aliens in their ancestral homeland, Sri Lanka.TJ Magsakayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17638181196986500908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-62771283655073709352013-07-07T12:48:49.765+05:302013-07-07T12:48:49.765+05:30oh thanks ...i had such a blast reading your post ...oh thanks ...i had such a blast reading your post ....<br />no i am not a mizo ...but i chuckled because i have been in your shoes - i am tamil - so ergo math must be what i speak in ! and carnatic music or bharatnatyam must be a certain skill set ...NO to both ;)....i suck at math ..and i am music and beat challenged !<br /><br />and when we lived in shillong ...all the kids in school found all the things that tamils do so awfully funny - we plait our oily hair till the end of our ribbons ;0 ;;;tamils are uncomfortable wearing footwear ...tamils dont know much about furnishing a home ...hheeeee .if it were not for a big ego and three sisters to back each other in school i would have fled shillong ..instead i came to love it ..and the other kids came to accept us crazy black people from the south ;) <br />Your blog made me laugh and shake my head thinking of how same it is even when different ;)))<br /><br />and it also opened a corner of the mizo world for me for which i can only say thank you ;) all<br />cheers<br />sujaUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02510342628373026791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-43852214024657788722013-05-08T13:21:42.131+05:302013-05-08T13:21:42.131+05:30How can you not like bitter veggies? Who are you??...How can you not like bitter veggies? Who are you?? I feel like I dont know you any more. ;) yeah..I totally get what you are saying. I dont take kuhva, am I still a Mizo? Hell yeah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-31529122795184208092012-10-12T16:57:44.333+05:302012-10-12T16:57:44.333+05:30Long story than expected, but it's worth to re...Long story than expected, but it's worth to read it. Your story to me might be like a pheromones in animals.. LOL. I read, continue to read and done at once. And, I do agree with you.. :-) <br /><br />I thuziak chhiar a manhla thin teh e. Ka phuahchuah thiam si loh, mahse han chhiara ka hriatthiam vek theih siin i ziak thiam tlat... :-)<br /><br />Hehe Inla-changkang tih vel hi chu thengah-thawngah laksak lo ila a hahdam maiin ka hria.<br /><br />Mahse, kei erawh chuanin, thingpui senhang hi tui ka ti khawp mai.. :-)Mahminga Sailohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17737799467116735191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-20333169228198668702012-10-10T18:37:26.784+05:302012-10-10T18:37:26.784+05:30"To find a connection and bond with other Miz..."To find a connection and bond with other Mizos. To feel ashamed when you read the news about another Mizo getting involved in drugs or prostitution. To feel the pain when you see scores of your fellow Mizos fleeing a particular city. To feel elated when you get to know about a Mizo achieving something noteworthy in his/her line of work. To feel a deep kinship every time you come across a Mizo name in the newspaper." ~ i relate to all these too. <br /><br />And as long as you share these and/or other such bonds i don't think there's any need to justify one's mizoness. ...not that there should be any need to justify your feeling of belonging to any culture in the first place!<br /><br />The ones who demand justification are probably voicing out their mixed feelings of not being able to adjust to difference among mizos in general. Homogeneity, or a certain predictability has somehow always been encouraged and everyone's very comfortable with it. There's a certain charm to it too but when overdone can be dangerous. I think thas prolly why we often find ourselves reinforcing certain generalizations made by the rest of india - because we want to, but find it frustrating when the same generalizations become oversimplified or just plain lazy. <br />But this is changing as we speak. The more mizos the rest of india makes friends with and the more mizos the rest of mizoram meets, a time will come when being Mizo means more than a common love of tea or thingthupui (blech), but where there still exists a deep shared appreciation of all things 'good' about the culture and a profound sadness surrounding things destroying it, as in the quoted para. I love what one commenter said about her mom telling her "We have to try to adjust to any kind of food, esp the commonly served ones, so as to not trouble people so much". That’s a nice example of old school tlawmngaihna i thought. Though am sure the meaning of tlawmngaihna too will change as mizos are changing all over the world and are interpreting their culture in rapidly different ways.<br />aside: a friend of mine working as a primary school teacher back home posted the other day about how a 'vai' kid got fined for speaking in mizo in class with the rest of his mizo classmates :DPeer Gynthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03262306569374323936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-8112302317612283962012-10-10T16:07:12.329+05:302012-10-10T16:07:12.329+05:30Kei pawh Mizo ka nih ah hian chiang ka in ti bawk ...Kei pawh Mizo ka nih ah hian chiang ka in ti bawk a, in tih Mizo leh zual tul ka ti lem lo. Mizo chiang kuang lo chu in tih Mizo a tul te pawh aniang e.( Sarcasm)danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06071042859714531387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-47065114101996601542012-10-09T23:53:02.192+05:302012-10-09T23:53:02.192+05:30hmmm....we'll look for a gal who can have idli...hmmm....we'll look for a gal who can have idli for breakfast, pizza for lunch and nghapih for dinner. Hopefully that should fit your bill?:PZoramihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03562612778096523739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-26244035752613999332012-10-09T20:16:25.271+05:302012-10-09T20:16:25.271+05:30@ Deedee: Thingpui - booooo booooo.... murdabad mu...<br /><b>@ Deedee:</b> Thingpui - booooo booooo.... murdabad murdabad :)<br /><br /><b>@ Tharax:</b> Hahaha... ka kalna apiangah insawifiah ziah a ngai a, chuvangin hetah pawh hian ka rawn insawifiah ta law law mai a nih hi, haha :D<br /><br /><b>@ mnowluck:</b> Kei ve ka upa telh telh a, hnah lam ka nghe telh telh, lolz. captcha a awmloh te chuan spam a rawn lut dawn aaaaa :)<br /><br /><b>@ sz puii:</b> hehehe an va thing ve :D nia, hei hi kan mizia a ni tlat sia... hahthlakawm...Mizohicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644240783333879705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-37536567980720239822012-10-09T20:16:10.688+05:302012-10-09T20:16:10.688+05:30@ Hermit: Oh yesss I loveee the vawksa rep. And al...<br /><b>@ Hermit:</b> Oh yesss I loveee the vawksa rep. And all my non-Mizo friends here in Mumbai love it too, always asking me when is the next time my folks are sending me another parcel of vawksa rep :)<br /><br /><b>@ Unknown:</b> Yup, that is truly sad. If you're not from Mizoram, even though you belong to the same race and tribe, many people, especially those in Aizawl, don't consider such people to be Mizos. Sad sad... <br /><br /><b>@ Philo:</b> lolz, yes I am half bong, half tamil, and 100% Mizo :P <br /><br /><b>@ mangbuhril:</b> Very true. Sometimes we tend to stereotype things so easily that we do them unintentionally too... and its only when the other person brings this point out that we end up realizing what we've done...<br />Mizohicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644240783333879705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-59384967127490270222012-10-08T23:36:50.765+05:302012-10-08T23:36:50.765+05:30Hmaaaanah Mirc uar lai khan eng chatroom berah ema...Hmaaaanah Mirc uar lai khan eng chatroom berah emaw ni bai ka ei ngai loh thu ka sawi a, Mizo i ni lo a nih chu min tih rawn luai luai kha ka hre chhuak zawk maiAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424961964831939740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-21116085306699022622012-10-08T16:30:15.375+05:302012-10-08T16:30:15.375+05:30Ka upa telhtelh a Zo food ti mai ila hnah(leaves) ...Ka upa telhtelh a Zo food ti mai ila hnah(leaves) a piang ka duh tulhtulh lol.. when I was a kid, I don't like anything which have green leaves even mustard. <br /><br /><br />I captcha hian ka lu a ti hai zo vek .. ka van ning tak em mnowluckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12378013983432242882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-42363589854808501672012-10-07T12:19:19.623+05:302012-10-07T12:19:19.623+05:30Ka nuih a ti za deuh tlat!! nang te hi i lo mizo c...Ka nuih a ti za deuh tlat!! nang te hi i lo mizo chiangkuang vak tawh lo aniang a hetiang teh duaha rawn insawifiah te a ngaih tak..<br />Just kidding yarr :PTharaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10437233917851057302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-24843709519043357012012-10-07T12:18:46.629+05:302012-10-07T12:18:46.629+05:30Kan lo kal a lawm hey! Kei leh ka thiante nen hey ...Kan lo kal a lawm hey! Kei leh ka thiante nen hey booty bang bang....thumbs up to smoked pork, bekang, ratuai/mautuai etc...down with thingpui I say! And uisa eaters..booooooo!!!Dee Deenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-48524317232855787302012-10-07T10:44:34.736+05:302012-10-07T10:44:34.736+05:30the more we see variety i.e. more people, places ,...the more we see variety i.e. more people, places , our very stereotyped definitions changes. For those who would like to define a particular identity (like being a mizo or.. ) , they are bound to offshoot that somewhere once they go out from their natural surroundings. I've always do what's called "Generialization" ie generally those people from that places are like this and that... but there are exceptions ... and some people fall into that exception category.mangbuhrilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08689569291982454576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-73701727198336133912012-10-06T02:12:04.979+05:302012-10-06T02:12:04.979+05:30I always thought you were a Bong going by your gar...I always thought you were a Bong going by your garrulous blog!Philohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155869014698128212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-7569898321710399032012-10-05T23:22:12.308+05:302012-10-05T23:22:12.308+05:30Another Irony - A mizo who loves tea, loves bai, l...Another Irony - A mizo who loves tea, loves bai, loves voksa rep, loves hanging out with fellow mizos and would go an extra smile to help fellow mizos anytime but happen to belong to a place outside Mizoram is labelled as 'MIZO 2' in Mizoram.<br />Isn't that just sad?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15299324255521486835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-15334099781740043652012-10-05T20:47:50.778+05:302012-10-05T20:47:50.778+05:30"Thingpui" in Mizoram i very tuilo. Afte..."Thingpui" in Mizoram i very tuilo. After drinkign the roadside tea of kolkata and other places, the tea that you get back in aizawl i very ho. I don't about other dishes but any mizo living outside always has cravings for the timeless VAWKSAREP.<br />HERMITnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-23119042883087719172012-10-05T20:26:02.975+05:302012-10-05T20:26:02.975+05:30hahahaha :Phahahaha :PMizohicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644240783333879705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-1913210341620089732012-10-05T17:29:15.437+05:302012-10-05T17:29:15.437+05:30E khai aw... Thingpui i in ngai loh thu chauh maw ...E khai aw... Thingpui i in ngai loh thu chauh maw i ziah a? "I am not interesting of drinking tea but...." te han ti tal la ṭha tur!Angaiha Chhangtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17598789125316702308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-13778024589186466112012-10-05T14:05:27.603+05:302012-10-05T14:05:27.603+05:30@ ku2: That's the main problem with our Mizo s...<b>@ ku2:</b> That's the main problem with our Mizo society. We tend to throw this "in la changkang" far too many times. If person A doesnt like what person B likes, then that person is "in la changkang". The thing is, these people don't know how words like those hurt us, especially when it is thrown at our face.<br /><br /><b>@ Aduhi:</b> Yes, those too! Nowadays, it seems like we have to struggle just to remain a Mizo :-/<br /><br /><b>@ Amelia:</b> Yay my foodie sis! Awesome. You should move to Mumbai when you are done studying. This place is a foodie's Heaven. I mean Delhi has much more variety of food stalls on the road side etc. but Mumbai is where you'll find all the Foodie clubs. We gather at some place new just to socialize with new people and enjoy the awesome food. I am a part of many such groups!Mizohicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644240783333879705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-38389542584066509352012-10-05T14:05:15.688+05:302012-10-05T14:05:15.688+05:30@ anonymous: lolz... then why the sad smiley? Don&...<b>@ anonymous:</b> lolz... then why the sad smiley? Don't wanna be one? :)<br /><br /><b>@ blackestmizo:</b> Ah those generalizations are ok with me. In fact I started learning how to play the guitar only later because people just assumed I could play because I'm a Mizo. Because of that stereotype, I can now play the guitar, lolz. And very true, yes, being a Mizo is more about how much we care about our fellow Mizos and have that bonhomie attitude.<br /><br /><b>@ Suzz:</b> A friend once asked me why many Mizos who have been brought up outside Mizoram tend to stick together even when they come back to Mizoram, and that is exactly the reason... because we have a lot of things in common.Mizohicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644240783333879705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-55702905170179718632012-10-04T22:32:34.414+05:302012-10-04T22:32:34.414+05:30i feel u, yes i do, my foodie soulmate :P!!!i spen...i feel u, yes i do, my foodie soulmate :P!!!i spent most of my pocket money on food too ;)<br />n on the subject of your post, i totally agree. like here in cal, on sundays, they always announce dats we sud "puan bih", because its mizo n we should be proud of our heritage. i dnt have anything aganist puan bt i'm more of a skirt person (esp in dis hot, humid weather). sometimes i wonder if we are too subjugated by trivial details that we fail to see the more important picture. u can praise the Lord perfectly fine in skirts. if u puan bih and play with ur mobile or chew eatables in church, wudnt that be much more of a disgrace to GOD???Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354537486833067238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-78790125192125311662012-10-04T21:16:56.286+05:302012-10-04T21:16:56.286+05:30I have no trouble with the food and tea, but the t...I have no trouble with the food and tea, but the things which "define a Mizo" - the tlawmngaihna, the regular church attendance, KTP YMA hnatlang etc a kal, i fail miserably in all these things. Aduhi Chawngthuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354958246245503600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-84247530030246212512012-10-04T21:05:34.461+05:302012-10-04T21:05:34.461+05:30Pork, which I don't eat, is like the staple Mi...Pork, which I don't eat, is like the staple Mizo guest-fare. One time, we visited this village and they served just pork and dal everytime. I didn't want to hurt their sentiments because min duhsakve sia, so I'd spoon a couple of pieces onto my plate, hide them under my rice, transfer them to my left hand, then surreptitiously return them to the frying pan. I still had 2-3 servings despite the lack ofchawhmeh, though :D I have been called "inla changkang" and "inla sap" because I don't eat pork. Why oh why can't they see that I'm just being "khirh" and "buaithlak"? Why attribute Mizoness or the lack thereof to it?:(<br />Good rant, man. ku2https://www.blogger.com/profile/16670201021888283331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191295.post-9944697447487753082012-10-04T20:12:38.041+05:302012-10-04T20:12:38.041+05:30Dude, we have ALOT in common.. I won't even st...Dude, we have ALOT in common.. I won't even start with it. I grew up in Guwahati, and Now in Delhi, so I know exactly what You're talking about.Felnunmoi Gangtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452243090259624101noreply@blogger.com