Career Quips is a career blog, which makes in-depth studies on career exams and provides the job-hunters with study materials for preparation of the same. In last two years of existence, this blog has never published any non-career article.
However I feel even the most-hungry-for-job candidate also needs a break from job-hunting and therefore this travelogue is being written as a weekend reading! I also could not help writing about such a good place I visited and the good people I met, for I feel all the world should know about them…
This paradise on earth is Mizoram (in North East India) and the good people I talk about is - the Mizos. For the last one year, my official commitment takes me through the serpentine roads of Mizo hills and I would like to just share with you the three counts of virtues I found in these people.
First: The eternal lover:
You would be surprised to know that Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram has its own Tajmahal – a pure white marble monument, built by K. Chhawnthuama in memory of his late wife Rosanpuii Varte, who expired on November 27, 2001 in a motor accident. The monument stands tall and beautiful in a serene environment in Durtlang, just in the outskirt of Aizwal town.
Fresh flowers are laid each day in memory of her and her dresses have been kept in such a way as if the same were worn only yesterday. If you happen to be in Aizawl, this Tajmahal, named KV Paradise is a place you should visit!
Second: The disciplined man:
This may sound to you as stupid when I say you that Mizo people does not honks!
Yes, it is almost a sin to blare your car horn in Mizoram. When you are on the road, you would find complete discipline being maintained by each and every driver – there is no rash overtaking, cars in fact would stop to let you pass by in the narrow hill roads..
Third: The honest man who believes in others honesty:
I encountered this most out of the world experience on my last visit on 12th August, 2009 - I could not believe what I saw then and neither does anyone now, to whom I narrate this story..
I found a vegetable shop, with self-service system, just like modern malls. The only difference is:there is no shop-keeper here! And no body is watching you what you bought and how much you paid! This shop is in wilderness, in the deserted road from Aizawl to Lunglei via Kulikawn, in a bus-shed called “Middle Lau Sailam”, about 2 hour away from Aizawl.
The items on sale are vegetables like brinjals, ginger also fruits etc., each of them packaged in poly-pack, with each pack costing you Rs. 10/=. You are supposed to pick items you like (i.e. in multiples of Rs.10/=) and insert the money into the cash-box (a small plastic container). The cash-box is out in the open and is so small that anyone can just put it inside his pocket – but here no body does that! It is said that the owner of the shop hardly finds a variation of more than Rs.10/= per month!
There is at least one more good story to tell you about the virtues of Mizo people – about how a helpless colleague of mine, stuck mid-road because of car-breakdown at night was helped… but that should be another weekend reading!
Till than I leave you with some breathtaking view of Mizoram in the pictures above and also a You-tube video on how the clouds caress you in Mizoram! So long!
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Thanx for this great journal. We really appreciate it. It is great to have visitors like you come to my home town and write about the positive aspects of the place rather than see only the dark sides. You are always welcome to visit again, my friend. :-)
Yes, simplicity and honesty are still omnipresent in the hearts of the people of Mizoram. The Mizos are guided traditionally by the moral ethics called “Tlawmngaihna” which means to be hospitable, kind, unselfish and helpful to others. In addition to the “shop without shopkeeper” which you have mentioned here, your readers may be interested to know that in Mizoram, the small restaurants on the roadside have a unique way of serving their customers (note that these customers are completely unknown to the shop keeper as they are travellers). After you order for, say, tea, boiled egg or home-made rice cakes, one of the shop keepers (usually a girl or woman) would bring a basket full of eggs or rice cakes and put them on your table. You have to eat as many as you like from the plate/ basket and at the end pay to the cashier for the number of items you have eaten. You can quote any number of eggs or rice cake that you have supposedly eaten and leave after paying; yet no one will usually check whether you are telling the truth or lies at the time of making payment. (Not)Surprisingly, most people (including of course myself) have always paid for all the eggs I had eaten from the plate. I wonder how many people will actually eat how many eggs and pay for how many of them if they are given such kind of freedom, in states outside Mizoram.
Indeed that again is very sweet and surprising. Although I have taken tea in the roadside restaurants you mentioned, also have seen the girls offering the snacks just in the way you said, I did not notice this nuances.. I just paid what I ate and left!
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The capital of the Mizoram isn't Aizwal , it is Aizawl. Can you please edit that ?