Ukhrul is CHANGING

This video is part of the series sharing our experience visiting Manipur, particularly Ukhrul and my village which is close to the Myanmar border. We have not been met our family in more than 3 years.

In this video we visited two of my friends in Ukhrul who are bringing change in different ways. Worngachan Shatsang is bringing the culture of learning and sharing of knowledge and experience through books by opening Prologue Book Store.
Lummi Horam was once a drug and substance user who struggled as a young person. After becoming a Christian, he went to seminary and upon finishing, returned to his hometown of Ukhrul, where he started a youth ministry called Oasis Youth Point. Oasis Youth Point welcomes all the youth of Ukhrul who are in need of comfort, encouragement, correction and direction.

There are many young people who are working very hard to bring change in the Tangkhul society, especially here in Ukhrul, who are not featured in this video and we salute them and want to encourage everyone to continue doing good for our community.

Ukhrul/Hunphun is a town in the state of Manipur, India. Ukhrul is the home of the Tangkhul Naga. It is the administrative headquarter of the Ukhrul district. There are also four sub-divisions in the district for administering the villages in and around it. The villages, however, are governed by the 'village heads.

The Tangkhul Naga Tribe lives mostly in the Indo- Myanmar- Border area occupying the Ukhrul District of Manipur. According to Meitei dialect, “Tangkhul” can also be interpreted as ‘costly village’.

Tangkhuls are the village loving people. Right from the beginning, every Tangkhul village had been a well organized and independent political unit. Within its territory, every village enjoyed both internal as well as external independent of its own. The villages were guided by their customary and traditional laws. Most of the Tangkhul village sites were located near the spring or stream to ensure them dependable supply of drinking water. Another most important factor responsible for determining the location of a village was the security. They fulfilled all those criteria of a full-fledged state by possessing population, definite territory of their own and sovereignty of both internal as well as external. They were a self-sufficient and politically well organized democratic state. Most of the Tangkhul villages are thickly populated.

Find them here:
1. Prologue Bookstore:   / prologue_bookstore_ukhrul  
2. Oasis Youth Point:   / oasis_youth_point  

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