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  • Diljit Dosanjh dedicates Guwahati concert to Manmohan Singh

    Diljit Dosanjh dedicates Guwahati concert to Manmohan Singh

    GUWAHATI (TIP): Punjabi singing sensation Diljit Dosanjh dedicated his concert to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who died on the night of December 26. The singer-actor on Instagram shared a video from Sunday’s concert in which he spoke about the lessons he believes people should learn from Singh.

    “Today’s Concert is dedicated to Dr Manmohan Singh Ji. DIL-LUMINATI TOUR Year 24,” he captioned the post.

    In the clip, Dosanjh recalled how Singh would never speak ill about anyone even if someone did so towards him.

    “He lived a very simple life. If I look at the journey of his life, it was so simple. Even if someone talked ill about him, he never reverted in the same manner,” he is heard saying in the video.

    “Have you ever seen those Lok Sabha sessions? Our politicians fight as if they are nursery kids… But something that we should learn from Dr Manmohan Singh ji is that he never responded in the same manner,” he added.

    Singh, the architect of India’s economic reforms and who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India between 2004 and 2014, died last week at the age of 92. Dosanjh, 40, further mentioned the words which Singh would speak and said everyone including him should learn from him.

    “He would often say ‘Hazaaron jawabon se meri khamoshi achhi, na jaane kitne sawalon ki aabroo dhak leti hai’ (‘My silence is better than a thousand answers, it has saved the grace of many questions’) and it is something the youth needs to learn from him, even I do. We should focus on our goals even if people speak bad about us and try to distract us,” he said. “Today, I bow my head in front of a man who loved his country and spent his life serving it,” he added.

    The singer will next perform in Ludhiana on December 31 as part of his ‘Dil-Luminati India Tour’.

  • Indian security forces partisan; Manipur groups write to UN

    Indian security forces partisan; Manipur groups write to UN

    GUWAHATI (TIP): A conglomerate of 15 Manipur organizations has submitted a memorandum to the United Nations and international rights bodies seeking global attention to the ongoing crisis in the northeastern State.

    The organizations include the influential All Manipur United Clubs’ Organisation, Manipur Students’ Federation, All Manipur Women’s Voluntary Association, and Pangal (Muslim) Students’ Organisation. The memorandum was submitted on June 13 to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other agencies apart from the Amnesty International.

    “Unabated violation”

    Flagging the issues of hunger, poverty, and militarization of Manipur, the organizations flagged the “partisan role” of India’s Central Security Forces and “unabated violation” of the ground rules of the tripartite Suspension of Operations (SoO) by the Kuki extremists.

    Of some 30 outfits belonging to the Kuki-Zomi group of tribes, 25 are bound by the SoO, requiring them to stay in designated camps and not move around with firearms. The Manipur government and Imphal Valley-based organizations have been accusing the Kuki-Zomi extremists of killing Meitei people.

    The 15 organizations underlined the “breach of inter-community ties and peace” in Manipur and elsewhere in the northeast due to the involvement of “foreign (Myanmar-based) Chin-Kuki-Mizo mercenaries in inciting inter-ethnic violence” in the State.

    “An unbiased international attention and intervention is the need of the hour in accordance with the established international humanitarian laws,” they wrote.

    They also sought to draw the attention of the UN to the human rights violation and the blockade of highways, Manipur’s lifelines, by Kuki extremists along with members of the Committee on Tribal Unity, the Kuki Students’ Organisation, and the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum. The action of these groups has led to price rise, hunger, and poverty in Manipur, they said.

    The organizations blamed the “mobilization for the Greater Chin-Kuki homeland, also known as the Zalengam project” for affecting the inter-ethnic relations in the region and asserted that the ethnic Zo politics had worked in collusion with “narco-financed capital terror network” to tear the social fabric in Manipur.

    Insidious cross-border economic activities such as human-trafficking, poppy cultivation, deforestation, illegal immigration, and space politics have added to the complications in Manipur, they argued. Consequently, the region has transformed itself from a consumer to an opium producer, which is a cause of alarm for every ethnic community, they claimed.

    (Source: The Hindu)