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Dr Saira Paulose Thomas in Shalom delhi (2002-2015)

 A few words on Dr Saira

Before coming here today I asked my wife why once she remarked that Dr Saira could have been in the ‘IAS’. The first thing you noticed of Dr Saira is her friendly but upright, strong and firm personality. She appears to have quite a good dose of God given intuitive ability to quickly discern right and wrong, good or bad, how much (of praise or softness or even toughness) is enough and most of all an ability to be firm when needed and be strong when it is called for! 

As her senior in the area of HIV/AIDS, what is that I observed? I found her to be someone who can be counted upon once you hand over the steering wheel. Get her settled in the seat, teach her the basics and thereafter, trust her to run it and be assured that she would run it to her best and that means it would be a job done pretty well.

Her leadership style is one of leading from the front. She believes in team leadership and work well with second line or upcoming leaders. She is able to give them space – space to think and act on their own. In fact I see in her leading a team of young people who themselves are leaders in the making. I believe she has done a good job in mentoring future leaders for missions.

As a leader in EHA, the ever important questions is: am I, are You, Are We - an embodiment of the vision and mission of Emmanuel Hospital Association?

·      Being part of a Fellowship – enjoying being part of the fellowship – of sailing together with all categories of our team through all weathers – is the manner of fellowship as we find in the epistle of 1 John Chapter 1.

·      Transformation – on transforming of all – you and me – the focus on transformation – growing transformed in the image of our God day by day

·      Caring – caring of the whole person – body, soul and spirit – in your professional life – in your family and social life, in your spiritual life – a caring attention to each area.

How would we rate Dr Saira whom we bid farewell today? As Shalom Delhi today could we say that she indeed is an embodiment – in her fellowship with us, her transforming relationship with us and in her caring ways – caring words, caring deeds and caring thoughts and prayers? I believe it’s a resounding Yes.

Lastly but perhaps not the least in the case of Dr Saira is about hospitality. In the New Testament – Paul’s favorite word is ‘hospitality’. Saira is best known to many EHA leaders for her hospitality. Her home is where you can go and stay for perhaps as long as you need to do. Its just that you have to make yourselves comfortable – don’t expect her to give extra efforts to make you comfortable (except beyond giving you breakfast even they mostly go without it). You are part of the family as long as you are there – the kitchen, the bathroom, the spare beds, the floor and what have you - all are yours - all you need to do is – just be at home in their home! If you want to try out – I suggest you visit her in Raxaul?

Langkham

26.3.2015

a new composition in Paite

On rare occasions a few lines comes in my mind with a tune in my heart / mind and I would jot them down. Once it happened while driving down from Kohima to Dimapur around 2008/09 I think and another one recently on the 31st January at Guwahati while I was driven towards Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport and I jotted them down inside the Aircraft. (An amusing anecdote related to this is that when I finished writing it in CAPITAL Letter that escapted an inbuilt self spelling correction in my note book, I shut it down and put in a seat pocket in front of me. As natural of me I left it behind only to realize it when I reached home and I had to return to airport to retrieve from Loss and found Counter at IGI Airport - I knew where to go because that happened to me before and that was my third time to the same counter for the same kind of my 'sins of amnesia').

The context was that a chapter in my life was again getting over - a ten year (2004 to 2014/5) with BMGF funded project in Manipur and Nagaland which I had the opportunity to lead came to end. Any closing of a happening always made me to reflect back on my long past - my own beginning - a journey with God unknowingly or knowingly .......

SIAN IN KEI HONGHUAI

(LUNGDAM KOUHNA LA)

KAN SENCHIL PAN SIAN IN HAMBANG IN HON HUAI A,

KA ZINGZINNA TUANGLAM SUK LEH TOUTE AH;

KEN KA PHOKLOUH HANG A BAN JAITHA IN HONGKAI,

K'A DINGA A GEL PIANDANGTE KAN IN SANG SANG.

SIAN IN KEI HONG HUAI A,

SIAN IN KEI HONG KEMA;

SIAN IN KA PHATMOH HONG THEI IN HONGPIA,

SIAN VANGLETNA SUNGA KEI ANUNGTA HING E.

ZO DAWN MUALSANG TUNG MIMBANG KA PIANNA HI,

ZO BUKTA SUNG NUNGTA IN ZOLAI KASINA A;

A AW B CHAW PAWL KHAT PAWL NIH CHI’N SAANG KANA KAH A,

LUMSUANG DUM LEH KANGTE KA LAI LEH LAI KUNG HI.

SIAN SIMTHU KA SIA IN ZAILA’N HONG SINSAK A,

THUKHUNTHAK MATHAI MARKA… CHI’N ZAILA KILEM A;

THUKHUNLUI ZAWNG NUNGZUITE ZAWNG PAUL ZINNA ZAWNG,

SELUNG GEL SIAM SI E ZODAWN SINSAK SIATE.

ZO PUANLOM KI ZIALIN KA ZUA SIANG TUANG NUNG SIA’NG,

ASANGZAW SAANG LEH SIATE' SIANG GAMVANGLA ZUAN ING;

HUIHPI VUAHPI, LAMSUK-LAMTOUTE PALSUAK ING,

LUNGMAWL TUAIDAWNG SIAN IN HAMBANG IN HONG NA HUAI.

NUNNUAM IN PAK NING E,

SIAN’N NAUBANG HONG ITNA;

MIMBANG KAPIANMA’ SIAN LUNGGEL LIM IN DANG,

LAMBANG IN PAK NING E LOUBANG HONGKHUALNA.

NANG VANG NUNGTA HING, SIAN,

NANGVANG NE’-DAWN HILEL ING;

SAKLEKHANG SIMLEMAL PHEIPHUNG KASUAN NANG VANG HI,

KA HAT TAWP DAWNG BELH DING NANG BEK KA SIA HICHIA.

Aboard Indigo GE 128 Imphal – Delhi 31 January 2015 3:16 PM

archiving some short writings

Dec 8,2014

My adventures with specs
Since my youth I wore glasses for my distant vision. May be this inspired my heart and head to look for things my eyes cannot see and so I ended up all chasing all sorts of goals all my life! My adventures with specs had some trying as well as amusing moments. In my junior college years, once I was going for a student camp with friends and as we boarded a crowded train somebody knocked off my specs and it was stamped upon by fellow passengers in the usual rush in Indian railways. Without my specs I felt so lost that I had to get off the train and miss the summer camp! Recently I went for a meeting and landed the premises with only one glass in the frame as the other one had felt off somewhere somehow and as I kind of felt like a one eye Jack! I had to leave asap as I didn't want to be the joker of the day and so to go back to fav optical shop in my neighbourhood! Again one morning I was asked to read a portion in a daily devotional in a dimly lit basement conference hall. My companions had patiently bore me out as I struggled to read from the 11 fone size letters with the reading speed of an eighty year old! They had a good laugh when I tried to explain in my usual 2 or 3 bullet points • my eyesight had been rather used to reading only from electronic screen with adjustable fone size and lightings, • am actually using my old specs due a strange kind of fondness even though I had been prescribed a new pair with a new power some weeks ago! I discovered that day that old is not always gold!

23 November 2014

Time Dumb Frequent Traveller
Reached airport today at 4 mistaking my 7:45 flight to be 5:35. This is quite a change for me even though a bit extreme - remembering the many times I reached airports at the nick of departure time - sometimes I got through because I had connecting flights, most of the times they took pity on an innocent but not too intelligent looking passenger! I remember boarding a flight as the last passenger where the engine had already been running; another time when there was no time to book my luggages and so two airline ground staff helped me to board with my luggages.
Talking of luggages I remember one time coming back from US having to forgo some of my small baggages as only 2 booked luggages were allowed no matter what the weights were. Also one AIDS conference in Australia I came back with all the freebies and handouts I could collect - that far overweight my limit but was permitted to carry as they are AIDS related materials - only to litter my small office back home! There were other awkward moments - showing up at an airport without an I card and all I had was my business card - and also showing up at the boarding gate with my spouse with only one boarding card as we had misplaced one! And to our utter surprise we were handed the missing one at the counter! I believe in humanity as I survive on 'the milk of human kindness' that God provides for a dumbo frequent traveller like me!

Nove 3, 2014

A time comes when you come to the stage of managing life with less than a supple knee - when the synovial fluid and the ligaments seem to be failing in their level of adequacy and efficiency, you realise a few things you no longer can do without a measure of risks - starting with the basics like using dessi toilet or yoga mats, managing stairs without handle bars... The worst is that you can no longer bend down and kneel at the tomb of your love ones if you happen to visit them or at the church pews or next to your beds as you used to .. How quickly time flies..

Oct 29,2014

A typo or a spelling help in your computer making a bizarre correction of the Paite words you use, a wrong propped up and prompted name you wrongly add in your mailing list ... Forgetting name of a long lost friend when you happen to meet suddenly ...bring in lots of  or ! Life is fun!

Oct 23, 2014

3rd day in the kitchen (when your better half is unwell) - Dal isn't too sticky anymore, 
Rice no longer burnt and pressure cooker takes less effort to clean - no need to use steel wool to clean the black spots, boiled vegetables are no longer dry but even have some soup to enjoy; still can't quite manage multiple things at a time - hanging washed clothes to dry, getting water containers filled and minding gas stoves all at the same time! Still baby steps to take even in your mid sixties!

Oct 20, 2014

The anguish of a mother with a stillborn babe ... loss only the affected bore alone in silence ...

July 8, 2014

Concern for one another

The way we express our concern for one another's well being is one of the most beautiful things in my community. We greet each other by asking each other's well being e.g. dam maw? (are you well or fine?) He, dam nangla? (Sure, how about you?) Nong dam u maw?(hope everyone's fine back home?). He noula, nana dam zel zel umaw?( yes, how about you - have you all been well). Even letter writing ends with wishing each other's well being. Damtakin (be well) Damni ( May we all be well). Let's not lose these kind of old-time greetings and preserve our age old cultural values!

May 14, 2014

Recalling a Chinese friend in Calcutta in 1988
A well built but small frame with a height just about the same as mine was Mr John. We met in the church. He was with his wife and one small son and we got into small talks and soon became good friends. He invited me to his father-in-law Chinese shoe shop in one corner of Calcutta New Market. His father-in-law was not a Christian even though John and his wife were. I became a frequent visitor to the shop and every time I went there John and I would chatted endlessly on matters related to our respective lives and our families so on and so forth. He was a volunteer in a missions field in Africa and while loading and unloading truck loads of literature and food items, he ‘broke’ his back and had to return home. Since then he was helping in the traditional family profession of his in laws in the city of Calcutta. Shoe making was an art in which the Indian Chinese excelled and they have been making shoes that are of excellent quality available for sale at a relatively cheap rates affordable to college students and young professionals. He would talked of days his team spent in Africa (I do not remember any longer which particular country it was) and how good the Lord was to them in providing what was needed every day. I would tell him about how faithful was the Lord in the remote areas where I was posted, how I took the posting as a preparation to work as a missionary one day and how in all circumstances we saw God’s hands. I would recount the desire of our family to be in missions but that so far we had not yet found an opening. I would ask my friends in Gideon International why God would not give an opening and I would be told that till we hear a definite calling we were to hold on faithfully to whatever God had allowed us to do as his own work and only move on when we become completely sure of God’s leading to leave our work and place.
By the way way I used to enjoy the 'Bongsung Puanpi' cleaned and cooked the Chinese style!

May 11, 2014

Reflections on Mother's Day 2014
A tearful prayer of my mom as I set out to world unknown to her .., a never dying love I have from my children's mom ... The delight I see in my own daughters experiencing the unique and wonderful mother's love in their lives ...,,
Lord thank you and bless them!

May 9, 2014

Remembering MUANPI 
He was always with a smiling face
And also with very polite words
Never failing to greet an old friend
A regular church goer - I presume
An exemplary YPA member I can say
He used to be an honorary policeman too! Lamka will not be quite the same without Muanpi!

Thank you Muanpi for what give to your fellow Lamkans - a better world! Good bye as you go to even a much better world! 
My regret - Not being there to attend your funeral today!

09.5.2014

April 9, 2014

Another day and another trip for an ageing traveller!

Trying to pull out smartly your flight ticket from your IPhone you hit the wrong mail and up came a wrong ticket and the young security politely told you to step aside till you find the right one!

At the hotel you were given an activated card to use for the lift and your room and you accidentally deactivated it as you hold it too close to your phone and you had to get help from a hotel staff

Before going down for breakfast you couldn't quickly find the card holder and so you came down with just the card and then later you forgot which room you had checked into - a real challenge as you returned back to your floor and trying to remember which was your room!

You promise to meet a friend in another floor and you forgot the exact number of the room whether it was 613 or 618 as both looked the same anyway to your failing eyesight!

And in your return journey, history had a way of repeating itself at the security as if your life itself had become wired that way!

As you reached home and started to climb back wearily to your 3rd floor flat, you couldn't but be thankful for your beloved's prayer for you before you left home claiming the biblical promises!

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

April 7, 2014

The amnesiac on the move again - this time to Mumbai - alerting the guardian angels!

April 6, 2014

I believe in God who does miracles! The miracles that happened to me are often trivial and personal as my faith in God is often limited to my personal need. Another example of how God performed a miracle in my life was about my clumsiness that happened 5/6 years back. Half way to the Dumdum airport from Taj Bengal I remembered that I left behind my flight ticket to Delhi in my hotel room. I told my co passengers in the hotel transport but decided not to turn back as they were two high ranking officials catching their international flights back to Sri Lanka and Maldives. I quietly prayed for a miracle asking God to send it - swishing - from the hotel room to my suitcase and believing it I quietly settled myself ! At the airport I started to check my suitcase but couldn't quite find it. So the first miracle - the security personnel at the gate invited me in after seeing me desperately fumbling with my suitcase for sometime. Second Taj Bengal staff at the airport checked with the hotel housekeeping who recovered my ticket and arranged to send it to the airport with the next consignment of their departing guests. Third, as my flight had to depart before it arrived, I was issued a boarding pass by Jet Airways staff and by the time it reached the airport I was already aboard the flight! They even sent me the stamped ticket through a Delhi passenger in the next flight who couriered it to me the next day! Small but sure faith to cover my failings is all that I have and certainly not the 'move this mountain' kind but it's good to have faith even if it's only large enough to cover you ....

April 5, 2014

Mangngilh' or 'forgot' is one word that's worrying me and my family when I travel. A week ago I went off to an important meeting before heading to another city by the evening flight for a meeting the next day! All of a sudden the world crashed with both my laptop and my phone battery going dead. I had 'mangngilh' my laptop cord at home and took a dead plug for my mobile charger! I hadn't noted down my PNR nor even the hotel where I was booked for the night! And worse still I never memorised any phone number except our landline at home! Thank God I managed to board the flight and also reach the hotel and best of all managed to come back home safe!

March 27, 2014

Mom was a hmar speaking diehard belonging to hmar lusei or hualngo or chhakchhuak and our relatives from her side speak hmar or mizo or hualngo depending on where they live. My dad was a Paite speaking Ngaihte but there are also many belonging to our clan using other dialects - simte, tiddim, zo, thadou, mizo. By the way I use only 'lamzang Pau' while my better half speak a dapzarish Lamka Pau which is a bit more like her dousel mom's rather than her father and father's family that use the l'ousau' - ngawnnbung-mulanuam variant of Paite!  

March 3, 2014

reflecting the past from the wrong side of sixty - you suddenly realize how fortunate you have been to be in good health and working without any major health problems al these years…..

Dec 31, 2014

preparing my year planner for 2014

Cornelius, Peter and Me

Cornelius Captain of an Italian Regiment
He and his family - devout and God fearing
Giving generously to those in need and also praying to God regularly

He had a vision and distinctly saw an angel of God who called out his name '
He was told his prayers and gifts came up as 'memorial offerings'
He was also instructed to take steps into areas hitherto unknown to him

Peter a fisherman turned leader was given a symbolic message 
To do beyond the confine of his own traditions and understandings 
He obeyed and proved that God has no partiality

Me, will prayer be as a regular important item in my year planner for 2014?Would it include striving towards becoming a devout God fearing family?
What regular acts of mine might go up before God as 'memorial offerings'?
What if the divine plan include a step outside the comfort zone?

Dec 30, 2014

interesting to look at the profiles of Forbes' 100 world's most powerful people(from S Dutta's posting) - the youngest being 29 and many over 60s even up to late 80s … not that we are looking to be influential … but reminding the young ones they don't have to wait and the older ones we needn't think of retiring too early …..

Dec 30, 2014

Just met two friends who on completion of their assignment with us in the NE went for their MPH in Amsterdam and Liverpool. Kingson now works with UNICEF in Arunachal Pradesh and Moses with IIPH (PHFI) Shillong. they remain good friends of EHA.

Dec 29, 2014

As we were praying with friends in Teen Challenge Manipur - to be touched in the inner man by the transforming power of Jesus - who died and rose again, we felt Him to very near us. We pray for God to new birth to make new people, we pray for his salvation so that we become victorious …. an hour to remember ….. simple words … simple prayers .. simple acts of body language -- they need your support …..

December 1, 2014

December 1 is World AIDS Day with the theme of 'zero new infection'. when will we see this happen? What it will take to see this. Meeting young innocent people still being infected, still dying - is too painful. Two mothers I met recently cannot breast-fed because it was consider safest for their babies if they don't! Both are just about 20 and one has co-infection with TB - that too military TB! The smile on their faces and their pale and frail bodies will be very hard to forget! How can we can ensure they at least get proper care, treatment and support for themselves and their newly borne babies?

Lauryn Hills & CeCe Winans - His eye is on the sparrow

Will you still love if I teel you the truth? R Tawmbing, PLHA, Manipur

Will you still love me, if I tell you the truth? Will you accept me if I let you know? Will you still hold me if I say “I love you” As I said before

There’s no way to hide the truth I don’t want to lose you But I don’t wanna hurt you I am standing still with confusion

Love is full of acceptance But I don’t wanna see you crying Coz I’m gonna leave you behind With shame and blame environment

Let me lose you, coz I love you Let me leave you for your betterment Let me fight it alone and leave you clean But I still wanna let you know that I love you!

note: this moving piece takes us back to the days when ART was beyond the reach of common man and it also reminds us today how thankful we should be that ART has become freely available in india..thanks to NACO/DAC, GOI. Langkham

C Sanga Ka hmangaih reng che (created in Mizo from Ricky Tawmbing's original in English)