 Good afternoon everybody thank you ma'am Havasah for having me here. Let me first apologize for shifting the date from 26 through today. Initially your freshers day was supposed to be on 26. I did not realize that it was the day when we were having a legislative assembly session so I had to request her at the last moment that we need to probably change she and all of you were kind enough to accommodate me and I am grateful for that. I think I can't motivate you more than what Havasah has already done. She's basically crystallized everything that you need to do. Yes you are 800 of you new students who have joined the mainstream college this year 800 is not a small number but it is not a big number after all we are just just back in the ocean we are nobody's. There are certain things in Nagaland which are undergoing the change which students need to or youngsters like you all need to be aware of she's mentioned a few. Let me begin by saying that nothing in this world is permanent the only permanent is change so whether you want it or not change will always keep happening around you. Nagaland as a society has been in the throes of change as other societies are but the pace at which change has been taking place in Nagaland has been phenomenal. I always say that Nagas are at a stage where Nagas have been hit by a future shock. What other cultures and societies have achieved by way of say 2000 years of civilization Nagas are trying to compress this into 150 years of time span so there is a mix of everything in the society there is a mix of modernity there is a mix of tribalism there is a mix of primitive life there is a mix of old and new which puts everyone at crossroads. I think a lot of things have to be seen in a particular context if we forget the context and start things and start seeing things just as they stand today in isolation we are all committing a mistake. I remember when Dr. Anirudh invited me for this online lecture last year on policing in Nagaland in the modern context now it was a very hard and difficult choice to make because the policing is not affected unaffected by what is going on there is the constitutional protection of 371A where customs and traditions have to be preserved and then there is this modern state how do you reconcile both of these would you want all your crimes or all your deviant behavior to be dealt with by traditional law or by the customary law or would you want to go to the modern new institutions that is a dilemma that all of you will face that is a dilemma that all of us face yes a theft will always remain a theft I think you a lot of I'm starting with that because I don't think too many of you may have listened to that interaction so certain basic things that you I need to tell you so that you understand how things are changing yes a theft will always remain a theft and a theft traditionally in all societies has been a theft it can be punished by customary and traditional laws also but the issue is which type of theft do you want to punish by customary or traditional law did you have mobile phones in the past did you have mobile phones or did any one of us have mobile phones in the past no did we have cars in the past no did we have in Nagaland context did we have RCC buildings like this glass buildings like this in the past say about 20 years ago 50 years ago no so the point is if there is a theft taking place of a mobile phone would you want to punish that criminal as per your customary law or would you want to go to the police so that is a choice you have to make there were no mobile phones in the past in the customary law so if you punish the theft of a mobile phone or a fortune or a bolero or a tata or a bus or a jcb under customary law it will cause miscarriage of justice this is where the context changes and when the context changes everything else needs to change to substantiate my point taking it off the whole logic a bit further if you were to if not you if all of us were to punish every criminal as per customary law then why do we need police then why do we need judicial so there is a big requirement there is a big need that we should try to adapt to change when we are trying to adapt to change adopt change we need to to be sure about what's changed we need to adopt which change we need to embrace i have seen and i know that in traditional societies not nagaland alone but traditional societies consumption of things like alcohol and opium and all were a given thing but do you think or do your parents think that it is the right thing to do it is not it is not morally the right thing to do it is not the right thing to do for your health that is why everybody will stop you from because you make say liquor or tobacco or opium or drugs so when you have to make a choice you have to be sure about what choices your way to make that is where your parents your elders your teachers and the the ideals in the society will help that is where they will guide you finally it is for up to you to make a choice but they will always put the choices on the table for you that is where there is a need there is a requirement for discussion for debates and even divergent and divergent views on various issues i think this is something that i feel is lacking in nagaland as such again i'm not commenting on individual brilliance or lack of brilliance but can i ask a few questions how many of you watch television daily i think everybody tv how many of you watch tv just raise your hands and how many of you very few very few but how many of you watch news channels daily or you watch news daily this will be even fewer now how do you keep yourselves abreast of what is happening in this society our society or any society has changed a lot it has changed a lot from my village to my country and my world and my world interacts with every other person around us so if we don't know what is happening in the world what is happening around us we will look like fools you know honestly it pains me that a lot of effort has been made by some young IPS officers and IAS officers in nagaland to push you pull you train you coach you youngsters to appear for the civil services and unfortunately in the past say four five years there has been just one success which was last year i think the biggest reason for that is lack of exposure you know if you don't watch news you don't watch tv you don't watch a few read a new few newspapers i'm not talking about local nagaland newspapers like nagaland goes more i mean without any ill will towards them they only cover the local news when you go and prepare for the civil services or for competitive exams they're not going to ask you questions about nagaland what is my tribe my village my father's name my chief minister no they're going to ask you about the entire world what is happening in the world and you are losing out on that experience by not exposing yourself to tv to newspapers internet online newspapers not local newspapers you have to have a broader view of things you know this is where the real change in nagaland will come in you know again not not a commentary on my fellow fellow bureaucrats in nagaland my fellow seniors and my colleagues on nagaland but my observation is a lot of us who have not gone beyond the nagaland and served in other places in nagaland don't know what is happening in nagaland what are the solutions to the problems that we face so what happens is that when there is a problem we think it is the end of the world nothing can be done but if we just look beyond us there are ready solutions available everywhere you know i'll give you an example now if if there are anyone from the media please don't quote me out of context i'm just giving you an example of how things are different in different parts of the country and we have not adopted or embraced that change now some years ago there was this discussion about inner line permits now whether the inner line permits will be allowed or they should be relaxed or opened or what should be the inner line permit regime so the question was what about illegal immigrants you know now firstly it is difficult to define who is an illegal immigrant in case of nagaland we generally think illegal immigrant is a bangladeshi now not only nagaland but in the entire country it is like essentially say a muslim guy with a dhoti or a small beard will be considered as in nagaland particularly miyar kogo now i'll give you an idea of an illegal bangladeshi immigrant but an illegal bangladeshi immigrant is the same like an illegal miyanmaris immigrant also so there is no difference between an illegal immigrant of a of any country but the point is how do you decide who is an illegal immigrant there are two two ways to decide one is know who is an illegal immigrant nam para jane itukhan itukhan itukhana says that is one thing the other is if we know who is not an illegal immigrant who is an indian national then everybody else will be an illegal immigrant okay now the issue was how do we decide whether an immigrant coming for a work permit or an illegal permit to nagaland is a genuine indian national you know and we were at our witsend our friends were there they witsend deciding how to decide that we have no means of verifying and this is about six seven years ago and it was like if you send a request to them the police station where this fellow says i am i belong to he will the police will not reply in the next one month by that time he will settle down in the society you know again this was a classical case where lack of exposure lack of knowledge about certain things happening elsewhere in the country or in the world was a handicap in a solution now i belong to himachal pradesh my father is originally from haryana from a small village in haryana and i gave this example to my friends the property which my father has will someday come to me right i will inherit that properly property now all those property records are computerized by the government in haryana and are available on the internet on the website which means if someone wants to check whether ropin sharma is an illegal immigrant or an indian national you just have to ask me ropin sharma what is your father's name what is your village name you go to that website and check that father's name and that village name if i am saying i am the son of my father obviously i am an indian you know so there are solutions which are available but if you don't want to look at solutions then there are no solutions available there are ready solutions available we have to look at solutions so some of you are here you probably finish your college studies from here some of you may go for postcards outside what do you learn from outside bring it back to nagaland i'm not saying everything yes you can learn everything good and bad both but whatever is good outside bring it back to nagaland and implement and what is bad outside bring it to nagaland and say please don't do this there is a learning in what is bad also so keep your eyes and ears open i would suggest i would request the college management i i said this in the principals college principals association meet also where i went i think nagaland nagaland there is a dire need for creating an environment for debate and declamations for open discussions among students out of those open discussions only new solutions will come out of those open solutions only your own personality will develop your thought process will develop you will start questioning things which are happening around you questioning things is very important to learn more in my my case personally my default reaction for anything is probably a no but it is not a full stop to the conversation a no from my side is the beginning of a conversation because i want to get more information about things if i if i say something and no then i want to get more information about that thing now at at your age as madam has said that your age is impressionable this is an age where the influence of parents and teachers is this the influence that you have among each other is more you learn more from each other whether whatever you learn is good or bad so make sure that you are in good company make sure that to protect a friend who is doing something wrong you don't shield him at least inform somebody someone you know it is not chugli it is not chugli if you are if you are a good friend of someone you will probably point out his mistake or to him or her or to someone who is interested in him his parents or someone you know so that that change in behavior that correct change in behavior can take place so that is essential now a few things that i would request you not to indulge in are alcoholism is one this is not an age where you can take to alcoholism drugs and smoking is another one please don't do it you are not enjoying your life you are just spoiling your lives and the spoiling the lives of your parents your hard earned money you are spoiling develop a habit of questioning if anyone of you is coming to the college in a Mercedes car please ask your parents go back and ask your parents where is this money for the Mercedes coming from because i'm sure that except a handful of say 10 odd families none of us can afford a Mercedes even i can't afford if i don't have an official Mercedes i will not be able to afford one and i don't have an official Mercedes also so but the point is you should start questioning you know the drugs liquor cigarettes avoid learn to be punctual discipline is not about just following the orders discipline is also about questioning something which is wrong if there is something which is wrong always question it always ask i've been my request to the faculty here would be i've i've faced this problem myself as a student i've faced this problem myself if a student questions a teacher the teacher should not take offense to it if the teacher was good enough if the student was good enough himself he will not ask you so i will give you a personal example a problem that i've faced i was in college this was my final year in college bsc and we had our practicals of importantly i was one of the better students in the class so our practical session was in the evening so there was a morning practical session there was an evening session so we went about an hour early and from the morning shift students we asked them what are the questions being asked for the vibe up and they told us two three questions and nobody was able to answer one particular question so naturally we tried to look at the answer this is like 87 87 so there was no internet where you can find out answers very quickly now so we tried to do our best to find the answer we could not find the answer so and between two of us my friend and me we decided that if the external examiner questions us we will politely tell him sir we don't know the answer so this is what happened so he the gentleman the external examiner asked us this question i remember one of the words was fermentation the other words was something but he wanted the difference between fermentation and one more word i'm forgetting that so i didn't know that so i said sir i don't know so he said no no you should know you are the best student in the class i said sir i'm sorry i don't know he kept insisting and there was a point where i broke down and i said sir sorry i don't know can you please explain to me now this was a very genuine question in good faith asked from a teacher it is not out of anger or putting him showing him in a bad place in my vibe out of 30 he gave me 10 he was to fail me just because i asked him this question he would have failed me but if i had known that answer i would have answered him straight away so my request to the teachers is that every time a student questions you doesn't mean that he's questioning your authority he is not questioning your authority nor your knowledge he just might not know the answer so in honest introspection and an honest answer will encourage the student to come back to you for solving his problem or solving for taking advice on various issues i think she's spoken about focus with one eye i don't know whether it should be one eye or two eye but if you have something in mind mind then i think your mind and both your eyes should be on that target and if you are not having any aims yeah then it's good to have one eye on that and my one eye somewhere else but if you know what you want to achieve then it is best to focus on anything that you want to achieve let me end here but i have sought ma'am's permission that if any student wants to ask me something i'm open to questions for the next two three minutes if any one of you wants to ask me you can stand up raise your hand ask me you don't have questions or you don't want to ask or you are shy hello everyone and this is sir police opportunity my name is both of you it is here from be efficient sure political science is my honor so my question to you sir is sir can you give a ayato ayato experience from your service okay so he's come take it is working now so he's saying for expiring candidates tips for expiring candidates for civil services firstly let me admit that i am too old to give any tips things have changed a lot of water has fallen uh flown down the river uh but yes uh i've given you one tip already focus is one thing but i think more important than focus is that you should know your capabilities and your limitations you should know whether you can do it or not if you cannot do it if you have a doubt in your mind please keep away from it because you will be wasting four years or five years of your life okay so in life in general not only for civil services but in life in general all of us need to know what we are capable of doing and what we are not capable of doing also that i think is the biggest strength of a personality of an individual if you if you know what you can do and if you know what you cannot do you will succeed because you will succeed where you can do something okay so beyond this i mean follow your mind if you are good in mathematics do mathematics if you are good in psychology do psychology but don't do mathematics if you can't follow mathematics i mean for me i am very afraid of figures nothing when there are figures i don't even look at that side so i know that is my limitation so i don't do that but whatever is your strength do it whether it is civil services or anything else if you want to aspire for civil services you want any help the best way is to talk to the younger officers of the past four five years batches because they would know what is the pattern of the examination and other things we would not know we are too old things have changed a lot from since then anyone else i hope i am able to satisfy you yeah yeah because i don't want to misguide anyone anyone else last but not the least if anyone of you what i can do for all of you or anyone of you is be a friend and they're on facebook and they're on twitter and they're on the social media and any one of you wants any personal help or advice or want to share anything with me something where you can you want you can share you want to share in anonymity where nobody else should know most welcome to approach me send me a messenger message this is what i can do i can't do anything else for you thank you very much