Hming leh bawk

Stephen Auhmun

Hmânah, Rambuai hnu si-ah khan ‘Hming’ chungchâng ka ziak tawh a, chhiar a hlawh vak lo a ni ang, khawlaia min chibai lâwp lâwp ka tawng khât em mai.

Ka tih tur nei lo ka inngaihtuah lungpuam a, chhunzawma han tui hnih (Double water?) ka châk riau nia. Hming hoh theihzia hi!

Pâwl pakhat hian London atangin Mizorama an pawl dinhmun enfiaha rawn tlawhtu tur mikhual an nei dawn a ni awm e. “Hei, sâp ram atangin sâp mikhual kan nei dawn a, a hming chu Dr. Whitewash Commoditius ania, nang sâp tawng thiamah airport-ah lo zuk hmuak ta che” tiin pawl hruaituten an mithiam an tir thla a, an sâp hmuah chu a lo thleng a, NEGRO a lo ni e an ti. A hming atang ringawt chuan hriat a har bawk a ni ang.

Hming hi kan buaipui khawvel ngawt mai. Mizote’n Negro kan tih maiho hi kan hria ang a, USA-ah chuan tunhma chuan ‘Black Americans’ an inti thin a nih kha. Hnaivai deuh atang khan an rawn chawrchhuahna ram changchawiin ‘African American’ an inti a nih hi. Heti a nih chuan Africa-a la awm Negro-ho hi ‘African African’ an ni ve mai em? Hming dangdai tak chu a ni. Ka hmuhchhuah!

Mizo tawng duh fir deuhten ‘Hming chu kan sa thin a, kan phuah ngai lo’ an ti a, eng-a-pawh chu lo ni tehreng se, awmzia a neih leh neih loh te hi pawimawh tak maw?

“Thangmawia kha i hria em?”

“Tu Thangmawia maw? Geneva kal tawh kha maw? Nge chhiarkawp thiam deuh kha? Vaihlozial leh XXX Rum ti thei zet kha em ni zawk?”

‘Thangmawia’ theuh theuh an ‘thang’ mawi dan a inang lo hlawm teh e!

Rotluanga ka hre nual mai! Pakhat chu keini Holy Roman Catholic-ho berampu Bishop Stephen Rotluanga a ni a, ani hi chu ‘Stephen’ ve tho tih takah a tluang purh mai.

Rotluanga ka hriat pahnih chu Ho-Tluanga ni zawk awm tak an ni. Thu ho an hre hnem dun hle. Pakhat phei hi chu sakhuana lama ro ve tak a ni a, a hming thluk pawh hi ‘ka puan pho a ro’ tih-a ‘ro’ thluka thluk tur a ni - a hming hi. Rotluanga ka hriat pakhata chu ‘Ruitluanga’ ni awm a ni.

Vêng leh khaw hming thenkhat pawh hi han ‘twist’ remchâng tak tak a awm. Tamil Nadu state-a Vanakailamrapatnilingam ang te hi. Hetiang khaw hming hi awm tak tak ta se an primary sikul zirlaite an khawngaihthlak âwm. ‘Bye-heart tur a sei em mai’ tiin a khaw hming tawi zawk Tut-ah an pêm phah duh hial ang. Tut sawi tâkah chuan khawvela address tawi ber pawl chu ‘Nu-i, Tut’ tih hi a nih duh hmel.

Tlangnuam-a pianga seilian ka ni a, kan veng hming ang hi a ‘common’ lutuk a, a engemaw zawng takin that lohna a nei. ‘Kolasib’ hi a tha ang reng khawp mai. Eng ang pawhin google-ah han zawng ila, a ang hi a awm lo reng reng. Khawiah emaw chuan ‘Cola-Cheap’ a awm mai thei e. Chu khuaah chuan Coca Cola a tlawm khawp ang. Hetia ka tih avang hian mi rilru zim tuemaw chuan min lo haw leh ringawt emaw ania’nga, pawi ka ti dêr si lo a! ‘Veng hmangaih lo’ min lo ti leh thawt thawt ang chu!

Kan nau pakhat chu Hruaitluanga a ni a, amah ka belhchian châng hian ‘Tuaitluanga’ ni zawk se a inhmeh zawk ka ring fo. A nih loh paw’n ‘Chuaitluanga’ te emaw ni ta se.

‘Dinsanga’ hi Babel in sâng sakna-ah a tel ve duh hmel hian ka hre thin a, tu’n lo haw lo se, ‘Muanpuia’ te’n mi an han vau khur khur mai hi chu an inhmeh lo tih châng ka nei.

‘Lalhmachhuana’ inkhawm ngai hauh lo ka hre nual a, a then phei chu ‘Nupuia chhungte Hmachhuana’ tih zawk âwm an ni.

Ka hriat pakhat phei chu ‘Retheih hmachhuana Chapova’ ka ti rilru. ‘Dul-Hmachhuana’ te pawh an awm a, hei phei chu ka phuahchawp lova, hriatpuitu ka nei thlap.

Kan hmingah hian ‘Lal’ kan hmatheh ang reng a, hei pawh hi bihchian a tul. Mi thenkhat, an hminga ‘Lal’ tih tel te hi zawt ta ila, a then hi chu ‘Sailo Lal’ behchhan te, Rajput Lal, Mughal Lal, Tuqhlaq Lal, Khilji Lal behchhan te an ni maithei a, ‘Lal Mohan’ behchhan te pawh an awm ta ve ang. ‘Lal Mohan’ chu ‘Rosgulla’ ai chuan an tawngkam pawh a thlum zawk hrim hrim ang.

In hming te hi kan phuah thin a, ‘Villa’ a lar hle; ‘Rûn’ nen. Kan thianpa pakhat Ngurthansanga Sailo in chu ‘Suangtuahna Lipui Rûn’ a nia, a sâp tawng chuan ‘Magnificient Lake of Imagination Villa’ tihna ni maw? A thenawmpa in kha chu ‘Dahlauna Tuihâwk Rûn’ a ni maithei e.

Footballer lâr Rooney hi Mizo chu ni se a in chu ‘Rooney Rûn’ tih sak ila, amah hi chuan a nachâng a hre dawn dêr si lo a, a lawm ve ngawt ang. An inneih mohruai ho pawn “Rooney-a Rûn in chhungah, Rooney-i a lawi dawn e” an ti thap thap ang a!

Mihring hmingah bawk chuan lo let leh ta ila. Amah chu milâr a ni a, ‘Mafa-a’ a inti thin. Internet Google-ah bawk he ‘Mafaa’ hming hi ka zawng a, ‘Miami Academy of Fine Arts Association - MAFAA’ tih vel a hmasa pawlah a rawn lang. Lâr a intih vei nen.

Zozam-a a thuziak kan hmuh thin Pu HC Vanlalruata hming hi hnam dang hnena chiang taka hrilh dawn chuan ‘Aids See Vuhn-lull-rooata’ tia hrilh a ngai. Mak tak a ni. ‘Lalvawna’ tih te hi saptawnga ziah dawn chuan ‘Lull-Vaughn-uh’ tih a ngai tlat.

‘Henry’ hi mak ka tia’ ni. Keini’n ‘Hen-ri’ kan ti mai thin kha a nia, Europe football kan en hnuah ‘Awn-ri’ a rawn ni tha leh vel. Tunah chuan kan zaithiam zingah pawh ‘Awn-ri Varte’ tia koh ngai pawh kan neih phah ta hial. A nau zaithiam hmeltha lâr zet pawh hi ka hnam dang thian pakhat chuan ‘Mummy Varte’ niin a hre tlat pek a. “Nula a la ni bawk sia, ‘Mummy’ in ti bawk sia” a ti a ti mai.

‘Hmangaihi’ nih te hi a tha. “Heti teh hrep chuan kan innei thei ta lo a ni e. I duh duh la la, chhuak mai rawh, HMANGAIH”tih te a ngai tlat. “Ka hmel huat zawng tak i ni, HMANGAIH”

Pasalte tan chuan nupuite ‘Ngaizuali’ an han ni vûng mai hi chu a thlamuanthlak âwm ngawt mai. Min huat em em lai paw’n ‘Ngaizuali’ an han ni tlat angah!

‘Hmingsanga’ hi ‘|hingsanga’ ni zawk tur a ni. A nih loh pawn ‘Hîngsanga’ te ni ta zawk se a inhmeh ang.

Rotluanga chungchangah khan let leh lawk ila.
“Tunge i hming”
“Zefir Mapuia”
“I pa hming”
“Zefir Hausiama”

Mizo hi chuan hnam hming kan dah hmasa ngai lo tlângpui a nih si hi.

Sap sikul chhuak tih takah sap hming hi chi hrang hrang sawmhnih chuang ka hre ve a, mak tih deuh deuh ka nei nual.

‘Julian Troubledwaters’ tih te, ‘Valentino Police-catcher’ te hi. Milar kan hriat theih chinah pawh ‘Southgate’ te ‘Woodgate’ te, ‘Townsend’ te an awm hi. |henkhat rilruah phei chuan ‘Seaman’ te pawh a lang ang chu.

Mizo zingah hming inang kan tam lutuk tiin hmanah ka sawi vak vak tawh a, keini chang kan lo ni bik lo tih tun hnuah ka hre ve chauh.

Tun hnaiah hna lam thil vangin sorkar laipuiin a rawn tirh ‘lal’ deuh deuh te lo dawngsawngtu-ah vawi thum ka tang a, hmun hrang thah - Chandigarh, Manipur leh Delhi atanga rawn kal an ni na a, an hmingah ‘Singh’ a tel vek! Sardarji an tel miah lo lehnghal!

India rama ‘Singh’ tam zia hi! ‘Singh’ ringawt hi sing tam tak an awmin ka ring a, Punjabi phei chu ‘Singh’ ni deuh vek tura ngaih an ni. Te ti ila, an zaithiam lar te chu ‘Daler Mehndi’ te ‘Sukhbir’ te an ni leh lawi a.

Kan Manipur thenawmah pawh khian Singh hmingpu an tam viau niin an sawi a, a dik ang - ka hmelhriat pakhat pawh a hming chu ‘PC Sharma’ a ni tlat. “Now, let us request Mr. Singh to sing a song”

Keini Catholic ho hian Mithianghlim hming kan chawi thin a, kei pawh Stephen ka nih vah mai hi. Kan thianpa pakhat pawhin fapa a nei thar ve a, hming sak tur an hre ngang lo a nih hmel a, Bible an keu an keu a, a tawp a tawpah ‘Nebukadnezzar |hattumhluana’ an ti ta a ni awm e.

Hnam hming sawi takah chuan miin ‘Auhmun maw nih?’ tiin makti takin min zawt fo? “Chu chu Irish hnam pêng pakhat emni?” min tih loh leh “Russia kehdarh ta-ah khan a khawi ram berah khian nge Auhmun ho chu an awm?” min ti fo. A âwm viau. Ka hmêl chauh en an ni thin bawk a.

Keini AUHMUN ho hi Pachuau tha mi, Chuaungo (em em) Auhmun kan ni ve tlat. Khawvelah tu tu hi nge Auhmun min tih chuan ka chhanna chu “Kei leh ka fapa” tih a ni rih. Inti Auhmun satliah ka ni lova, ka phuahchawp pawh a ni bawk lo. Tlat mai a!

Ka fapa nen hi chuan Chuaungo Auhmun laktlak awmchhun kan ni rih tlat - official tak chuan!
A saptawngin -
“What’s in a name?”
“Alphabets!”