My Child

My child,

When I get old, I hope you understand... 'n have patience with me
In case I break the plate, or spill soup on the table because I’m losing my eyesight,
I hope you don’t yell at me.
Older people are sensitive, always having self pity when you yell.
When my hearing gets worse 'n I can’t
hear what you’re saying, I hope you
don’t call me ‘Deaf!’
Please repeat what you said or write it
down.

I’m sorry, my child.
I’m getting older.
When my knees get weaker, I hope you have the patience to help me get up.
Like how I used to help you while you
were little, learning how to walk. Please bear with me, when I keep
repeating myself like a broken record, I hope you just keep listening to me.

Please don’t make fun of me, or get sick of listening to me.
Do you remember when you were little 'n you wanted a ballon?
You repeated yourself over 'n over until you get what you wanted.
Please also pardon my smell. I smell like an old person.
Please don’t force me to shower.
My body is weak.
Old people get sick easily when they’re
cold. I hope I don’t gross you out.
Do you remember when you were little? I
used to chase you around because you
didn’t want to shower.
I hope you can be patient with me when
I’m always cranky. It’s all part of getting
old. You’ll understand when you’re older.
'n if you have spare time, I hope we can
talk even for a few minutes.
I’m always all by myself all the time, 'n
have no one to talk to.
I know you’re busy with work. Even if you’re not interested in my
stories, please have time for me. Do you remember when you were little? I
used to listen to your stories about your
teddy bear.

When the time comes, 'n I get ill 'n
bedridden, I hope you have the patience
to take care of me. I’m sorry if I accidentally wet the bed or
make a mess.
I hope you have the patience to take
care of me during the last few moments
of my life.
I’m not going to last much longer, anyway.

When the time of my death comes, I
hope you hold my hand 'n give me
strength to face death. 'n don’t worry..
When I finally meet our creator, I will
whisper in his ear to bless you. Because
you loved your Mom 'n Dad.

Funny Facts

Height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as six inches,
depending on the temperature.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

The total weight of all insects on Earth is twelve times
greater than the weight of all people.

Robots in Japan pay union dues.

American media mogul Ted Turner owns 1.5 percent of New
Mexico.

The shrimp's heart is in its head.

In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.

Students at U.S. colleges and universities read about
60,000 pages in four years.

Because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas fault,
Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer
together each year.

It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.

There is enough stone in the Great Wall of China to build an
eight-foot wall circling the globe at the equator

Human bones can withstand stresses of twenty-four thousand
pounds per square inch.

The bacteria found on human skin is roughly the numerical
equivalent of all the humans on Earth.

There are over 3 million lakes in Alaska. The largest, Lake
Iliamna, is the size of Connecticut.

Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in
one square mile of the Amazon jungle.

The candlefish is so oily that it once was burned for fuel.

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

When North America was first settled, beavers there grew to
the size of bears.

Worldwide, about 40 square miles of land are transformed
into desert each day.

The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, gives out twenty-six
times as much light as the Sun.

Prior to World War II, when guards were posted at the fence,
anyone could wander right up to the front door of the U.S.
President's residence, the White House.

To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie
themselves together with kelp, often drifting miles out to
sea during the night.

The oldest national flag still in existence, that of
Denmark, dates back to the 13th century.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S.
since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across
Utah to avoid high freight rates.

Mosquitoes are attracted to blue more than any other color.

Mosquitoes have killed more people than have all the world's
wars combined.

In 1859 twenty-four rabbits were released in Australia.
Within six years the population grew to two million.

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

The ashes of the metal magnesium are heavier than magnesium
itself.

The telephone was 51 years old before one was installed on
the desk of the President of the United States.

All office-seekers in the Roman empire were obliged to wear
a certain white toga for a period of one year before the
election.

Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse
over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start.

Due to its reclining S shape, the sun rises on the Pacific
Coast and sets on the Atlantic Coast in the Isthmus of
Panama.

When tea was first introduced in the American colonies, many
people not knowing what to do with the stuff-served the tea
leaves with sugar or syrup and threw away the water they had
been boiled in.

The temperature in eastern Siberia can get so cold that the
moisture in a person's breath can freeze in the air and fall
to the ground.

Worldwide, there are more statues of Joan of Arc than of
anone else. France alone has about 40,000 of them.

Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona
Lisa's lips.

Social Profiling of the North East people

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. - Martin Niemöller.



First sexual abuse, social discrimination and economic exploitation happened to the people from Nagaland, I did not speak out because I was not a Naga. Then it happened to the people from Manipur, I did not speak out because I was not a Manipuri. Then it happened to the people from Mizoram, I did not speak out because I was not a Mizo. Then it happened to the people from Arunachal Pradesh, I did not speak out because I was not an Arunachalese. Then it happened to me, there was not one left to speak out for me. -- anonymous response

Unprecedented Racial Discrimination

Delhi police, Delhi and Union Governments, civil societies and intellectuals refused to accept the racial discrimination faced by the people from North East India, who are working, studying and living in Delhi and National Capital Regions (NCR). Refusal and denial to accept the struggles faced by the people from North East India by the concerned government and police forces continued for last five years until the killing of 19-years-old Tangkhul girl from Manipur in last October at Murnika by IIT Ph. D. student.



Whole nation cried when Shilpa Shetty in Celebrity of Big Brother faced racial abuse at London in 2007 and Indians at Australia recently but kept silence spectator when it happened to its own people from North East India. Non-acceptance and denial of the racial discrimination faced by the people from North East India by the law enforcement agencies and government authorities is the additional form of racial discrimination.



Enough incidents had happened in last six years at Delhi and NCR, probably begun with heinous crime of gang rape of a girl from Mizoram in a moving car at Dhuala Kuan in 2005, whose verdict came after four years with 14 years of imprisonment.



North East Support Centre & Helpline established in 2008, conducted two pilot studies – one in 2008, based on media reporting on sexual abuse in national capital, where almost 50% cases were happened to the girls from North East India. Second pilot study conducted in 2009, reveals 86% of North East people living have said that they are facing racial discrimination in various forms like, sexual abuse, physical attacks, vulgar remarks, social profiling and economic exploitation. These are documented and reported in national news papers and national televisions, from which, law enforcement agencies and government machineries should have understood the plights faced by the people of North East India in Delhi and NCR.



Double blow of racial discrimination came when the law enforcement agency, particularly of Delhi police and NCR, refused, denied and delayed to entertain the cases filed by victims from North East India. If the police forces, would have avoided the social profiling in performing their duties, the issue of sexual abuse, racial discrimination and economic exploitation faced by the people from North East India would have, long time, prevented. Due to the discrimination by the law enforcement agencies, the plight of racial discrimination remained unprecedented till these days. 2009 went up with highest record of violence against the people from North East India in Delhi and NCR. Nothing to celebrate this year with just six cases so far because, the number crime in 2009 went up only after September. Anything could happen at any time because there still exist unprecedented violence against the people from North East India.

The author is not from the North-East India.