Editor,
Apropos the middle article, ‘Lost! My patch of Green’ (ST April 5, 2012) may I on behalf of all those who continue to lose their Patch of Green , thank Kordalin Thangkhiew for this heart tugging dirge over a dying piece of our Mei Ramew. We share your tears and your sense of loss. Sad to say some of us are impatient to make this beloved land of ours as uninhabitable as possible. Drunks of all kinds are contributing to this apocalypse of U Hynniewtrep and their Achik brothers- people drunk on alcohol; on power; on money- all of them united on their determination to finish off the race.
Kordalin’s lament becomes more poignant because her tears are not for herself alone but for her child, an innocent , who stands to lose everything because of our insensitivity towards the needs of the next generation. Sadly, this next generation are our children whom we obviously are paying lip service to when we declare our everlasting love for them.
If the jaidbynriew is to survive, the environment that sustains us should also survive. We need to protect our forests, our rivers, our water and our wild life. If they die, we also die and the tragedy is that this simple logic of survival seems so hard to understand. Will each one of us take a vow to protect those we love? Can we start by protecting what sustains us? People of Meghalaya take a stand! Stand up and be counted before it’s too late!
Yours etc.,
Toki Blah , President ICARE
Get the facts right!
Editor,
Apropos the letter under the caption, “Facts speak for themselves,” (April 5, 2012) which was a response to the letter “On sundry articles”, the undersigned wishes to state that like any other right thinking citizen, he shares the concern of the writer regarding the deforestation that takes place for producing charcoal to feed the ferro alloy industries. However it may be clarified that charcoal is not used as a substitute for electrical power in those industries as mentioned in the letter “Missing the Woods…….?”. This can be confirmed from the concerned departments or the industries themselves.
Yours etc.,
Wane Lyngdoh,
Via email
Motinagar or Lumpyngngad?
Editor,
In reaction to the letter published in your esteemed daily by Rishiraj Adhikary (ST April 2, 2012) captioned “Motinagar has a history!” Firstly, I appreciate him for throwing light on the matter, but for his kind information, there are no written records about Motinagar(now Lumdiengsoh) named after Motiram Bora. It is a history never told. How does Rishiraj Adhikary expect someone to know the history of a person or a place where there are no written records? I am in not under any compulsion to just believe what he says. Secondly, to name any locality as Gandhinagar or Nehrunagar shows that we are Indians and history tells us great things about these great personalities and they are not particularly required to contribute towards our society. Perhaps, Mr Adhikary lacks understanding about the meaning of history.
Thirdly, the author seems to be confused with my writing. I pointed out that Motinagar (now Lumdiengsoh) and Lumpyngngad are two different localities and I appealed to the Department that runs the Shillong Supplementary Public Transport System(SSPTS) to change the name to Motinagar written on the windshield of SSPTS to Lumpyngngad as the terminus of the bus is at Lumpynngad locality, and also I drew the attention of the public in general so that the non-tribals and non-locals in particular should not be confused between Motinagar (now Lumdiengsoh) and Lumpyngngad locality. This will ensure that the indigenous name of Lumpyngngad locality will not disappear in the years to come. I appeal to all to preserve the local indigenous name at any cost.
Yours etc.,
Macdonald Dkhar
President, Khasi Students’ Union
Lumpyngngad Unit
Shillong