AI and Art and the Human Soul

Some time ago I saw a very thought provoking internet poster that spoke on art. A very tiny discussion but extremely intriguing to me.

Someone very snidely posited that every time you have wealthy kids that don’t need to work, they become useless and they play at and waste good money on some form of the arts. And precisely because not everybody can be very good at the arts, we get subpar artists. Besides which, they don’t move society along because they’re not productive members of the society as their illustrious sires.

To which someone countered, and I concur, that instead of being disparaging, why don’t we examine how curious it is that when humans don’t need to work for survival, we naturally gravitate towards the arts?

Doesn’t that speak at something primal within the framework of our very being? That over the course of history, perhaps moved along by the industrial revolution, we have somehow got to a point of evaluating all our lives' worth by how productive we are. Is this what we were made for? Is work all that there is to us? Are our lives to be measured solely by the economy and science of it all? Cogs in a wheel. Until the day we retire. And then die. Which, bleakly, is the best case scenario. Some people don’t even make it to retirement, after all.

In Sommarøy in Norway, as a publicity stunt for tourism, the locals have decided to do away with conventional time zones. The 24-hour clock is discarded. People do what they do. I’m sure there are some rules in place to stop society descending into chaos, but for the greater part of it, they apparently don’t operate in the strict 24-H rhythm. I mention this because of one very important outcome: they survive. Things still work.

So why are we so obsessed with being productive that it seemingly becomes all that there is to us? People should have some time to themselves. People need to de-stress, de-toxify, de-clutter. There are always more important things than things – people, family, friends, us.

And art.

It’s funny I was chatting with Atu the other day and Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli came up in the conversation. Miyazaki has proclaimed his disdain for AI art. He calls it an “insult to life itself”. This goes out for ChatGPT and all those other AI products that imitate life but without soul. Very sci-fi territory.

I think it is curious that we somehow thought with the rise of AI, we were imagining robots and the computers doing our calculations and our manual works for us. Sci-fi imagined lifelike robots of various designs that have rendered human labour unnecessary. Sci-fi dreamed of androids that could do the menial works of humans at better speed and strength than flesh and blood ever could. And what do the humans do? They turn to arts. Sci-fi is filled with beauty as far as the human society goes. Human society becomes artsy and fancy again because the machines are doing everything for us. Of course at some point, we enter dystopia but that’s the other end of the spectrum. Inevitable, one might even say.

In real life, however, the rise of AI has come to mean rise of AI art! What is human art that is time consuming and imperfect and expensive going to be valued at when AI can mass-produce art? How is a human artist going to compete with an AI that can combine the works of oh I don’t know Vincent Van Gogh and Sandro Boticelli and Leonardo da Vinci maybe in a matter of seconds and come up with its own Master Painter, with its own USP no less? Depressing to think about.

Art is how humans become immortal. Art is how we still remember William Shakespeare and Whitney Houston and Maggie Smith and Michaelangelo. It is not an indication of a person gone soft. Art is the soul of humans. Whenever humans don’t need to hustle and fight for survival, we have always naturally turned to the arts. Science and arts are not even all that different. It’s only when we quantify science that we divorce them. 

It is interesting to think about what that soul will evolve to when it is AI that produces our art for us.

Foreign Words

There are some foreign words that just capture shit. I have a list here of three words from three different languages that I constantly use and love. 

Schadenfreude: This is a German word. I learned it from the seriously cute and sharp-witted comedian Trevor Noah. It describes that feeling you have when you delight in someone else’s misery. As of 25th March 2025, after the drug bust of a local entrepreneur, a very apt word to describe the mood of Mizo netizens, feels like. Which, by the way, was the random muse that inspired this blog.

Mendokusai: This is a Japanese word. I learned it from Atu who is my Go To for all things Japanese. My favourite rendition of it is by Nyanko Sensei in his Madara form, from Natsume Yujinchou. It is the same as the Mizo “AVBT”. For those who don’t speak Mizo, the very tame English word for it is “troublesome”, the exclamation of it probably being, “what a bother!” or more colourfully: for fuck’s sake. Captures the essence, doesn’t it?

Maya: This is Sanskrit for illusion. It recalls the great sages of India who refer to this world as such. An illusion. Of the cosmic variety. The most famous representation of Maya in popular culture is possibly The Matrix, where people are unaware of their true selves and their true reality and are wrapped up instead in a grand illusion. Delusion, perhaps. For those who can see past this veil of reality that obscures the true face of the self and the universe, greatness and a sense of peace possibly, is possible. Maya relates to Brahma, the Creator. In that all things are One. To think of yourself as anything different from the Universe is a lie. Because anything that takes you away from this Union with God is Maya. Illusion. Beautiful.

If you want to start adding them into your lexicon, be my guest. Just memorise the spellings and Google for the pronunciations.

Tivolian Cowardice

Sci-fi writers really observe people so closely and can lift out behaviour traits so well and isolate them just to make them sound/look ridiculous until one day you’re like: OMG I know a Tivolian!!

Now, Tivolians are a humanoid race of people from the planet Tivoli whose main defining trait is cowardice. But this cowardice was not subjective or passive. In fact, this cowardice was very calculated. The Eleventh Doctor would describe it as “aggressive cowardice”.

At first glance, the Tivolians were a society of cowards who had grown so used to being conquered and occupied by other races it had become a way of life just to accept it. They never defended themselves and did everything they could to make their conquerors as comfortable as possible. In fact their anthem was basically “Glory to [Insert Name Here]” so as to make it easier for invaders. 

All this seemed amusing, if but slightly exhausting, and you even feel sad for them and maybe would defend them, until you start to realise that this cowardice was decidedly a plan of hostile action. That at the core of it was a combative disloyalty. You realise that a Tivolian would switch sides on you the moment the wind shifted.

Now do you understand my first para better? You do know a Tivolian in real life too, don’t you?

Anger

The Hogwarts crest says: Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.

Now I take quite the issue at people who say that anger reveals your true personality. As if everything else is an Image. Fake. I don’t buy it for the very specific reason that we are not one-dimensional characters. A lot of different things make us up.

By which I mean that Mr. Hyde may be one of our personalities but we could also be Dr. Jekyll. It’s just opposite sides of a spectrum.

Which brings me to another point that force-suppressing innermost unhappiness and dissatisfaction could manifest in the ugliest ways. Dr Bruce Banner may be the personality people best know, but once The Hulk is forced out, that’s who people will remember. Is that anything remotely good? The Hulk destroys a lot of things. Things that never needed to be destroyed if pressure was just let off here and there. That’s how pressure cookers work, a lot of inside pressure released periodically. Job done.

And also conversely, but along the same tangent, the other side of the coin, so to speak, it would be grand if we’d just learn to never tickle sleeping dragons. That, by the way, is what the Hogwarts crest says in English.

Sometimes we just push and push people until they crack. And then we shake our heads and say: I knew it. It’s not so much an Aha! moment as it is unfortunate that we force people to reveal the worst of themselves. Then we forget everything good about them. We forget when they’ve shown exceeding kindness or just a congenial personality which, let's face it, is who most of us are. It’s how we survive in society, flying under radars. Conforming. Making the best of situations. Ranting and amiably verbally abusing authorities in the safety of friend groups.

We are not any of us cut out in black and white. We are multi-dimensional beings just shuffling along. For the Christian community, who pressure each other to be passive-aggressive and sort of suppress a lot of emotions and glory in suffering silently, we are often told to emulate Jesus. What Would Jesus Do, right? But even in this realm of ethics, WWJD technically includes flipping over tables and chairs and people’s businesses at a temple/church because he got angry. Are we really going to say that that violent nature is his “one true” personality?

Sometimes I think because we don't like some people, it is difficult for us to accept that they are decent people. Maybe they're just mean to us. Maybe we just rub them the wrong way. Human life is often not a zero sum game. 

Anger is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. Anger gets a lot of things done. It moves a lot of things. It has altered courses of history. Controlling it is something we must do. Because too much of anything is never good. But otherwise, in and of itself, not the worst. And unless it is psycho level anger issues, just a part of a healthy psyche.

You should watch Inside Out by Pixar. I highly recommend. Also read Tales of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. That will teach you about dragons, too. Also maybe watch Avatar, the bald head monk one, not the blue people one. 

Dragons, the other side. Still, don’t tickle them.

Comedy in the Book of Judges

Judges. As in one of the Books of the Bible, yes. I enjoy reading the Bible sometimes for the story content. And some really nice existential poetry in Ecclesiastes. Plus, not for nothing, Gospels are nice. Calming.

Anyhoo. There are three exceedingly funny stories in Judges. I always love reading this Book.

One is actually one of my favourite stories in the Bible. It involves a man named Micah. Micah was just this one random dude from the Ephraim tribe. One day, this random Levite (of the priestly clan, if you know your Israel tribes) knocked on his door. And Micah was like: you want to be my priest? And the Levite said: ya, sure. So Micah made some carved idols and paid the Levite to be his priest. 

Come this one day and some Danites came to this town and met Micah’s priest who told them a good fortune. So they said: you want to come with us with your cast idol, serve an entire clan instead of just one man? And the Levite, this Benedict Arnold of a priest, said: ya, sure. So he left with them.

Later Micah caught up with them and was like: Hey, you took my god and my priest, what is up with that?! And the Danites, very blood-thirsty and just a gang of 600 bullies, were just like: Don’t make us hurt you. So they just took Micah’s god and his priest and set up a new town.

I don’t know the point of this story. It’s just really funny to me.

The second funny story is a little racist. And again, it involves Ephramites. Apparently Ephramites can’t pronounce Sh. So the Gileadites would ask them, “Say Shibboleth”. And if the person says Sibboleth, they just killed them. It was highly interesting to me in college when I was obsessing over linguistics.

I just find it funny it has mention in this very solemn Book. 

The third one is just a random throw-away line. Judges 3:17 reads: He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 

Just like that. It’s like the neighbourhood aunties and unclejis just looking at you and going: you are fat. Or a very honest kid who you ask to describe someone and they just go: the fat one. I mean this dude, who was a king, was ruling over Israel at some point, because they were evil and God was punishing them. Which is basically the entire recurring theme of the Book. And all that the Book has to say about his was that he was “a very fat man”. 

You have to wonder just how fat he was. And thankfully, the Bible provides that answer in the next next para. Somewhat. Ehud, a Benjamite man, whose only other description is that he was “a left-handed man”, plunged his one and half foot long sword into Eglon’s belly. And the Bible just says: “the fat closed in over it”. Always with the fat when it comes to Eglon. 

Very gory, very macabre. But also, so random it’s funny.

Now, go and read your Judges.

Bully

Jokes work for an audience. It’s just a narrative which some people find humorous. Some jokes work for a very large audience while some for a specific set.

I think many times people take jokes further than they should. We don’t all have the same level or sense of humour. Add to that the fact that sometimes people have experienced trauma of varying degrees and some jokes can stir that shit up, and you just might want to tread lightly. Test the waters, so to speak.

Some jokes that work very well on a set of people may also completely bounce with another set. It does not mean that the other is less evolved or narrow-minded than the other. Jokes have to work at a certain level of comfort, even while it pushes boundaries. Which is why jokes on topics like racism or history or culture/society really need to be worded and delivered carefully for it to land. Personally, I would not mind any level of jokes my best friends make on or with me; I might not tolerate the exact same joke from someone else I do not know.

Which brings me to my point that sometimes people use jokes as a license to bully. If you make a joke at someone’s expense or tease someone and they take offence, perhaps, (I don't really believe this but let's say for argument's sake) you have a more tolerant sense of humour. But if you already know that they don’t like it, and you keep doing it, you’re being nothing more than a bully. So maybe stop? And joke with the people that find you funny.

Jokes are sometimes very stupid too. Have you heard about the Giant Peach Head one? According to the late Matthew Perry, this is one of the most polarising jokes he tells. Half of the people find it amusing, while half just get annoyed. Here is the joke:

This guy is standing on the street and he has a giant peach for a head. And a man walks up to him and goes, “Uhm, you’ve a giant peach for a head. What’s up with that?” And the guy says, “Funny story, actually. A genie came up to me and granted me three wishes. And for my first wish I asked to be rich. And a guy came up with a briefcase with a million dollars and I’m a millionaire. And I’m a millionaire! For my second wish, I asked for the most beautiful woman in the world to fall madly in love with me. Mila Kunis walked up to me and said, I love you, we’re getting married in a month. For my third wish, I asked to have a giant peach as a head.” 

What do you think? Funny or not?

Lungno Khawhthla

Journal entry dated 12.6.2021

Han phur viau mai ila, hlim ve theih zel mai.

Lungno Khawhthla hmuh ka chak bawk a, DC Pi Maria leh BDO Pu Chhuana ten NABARD hnuaia develop an tum a, va tlawh an tum thu an sawiin, ‘Ka lo tel ve dawn’ ka ti ve tawp a. Ka va tel ve tawp ta reng a.

12.6.2021 zing dar 7 ah Keifangtlang aṭangin SDO(S) Pu Tefela nen a Bolero in kan chhuak a. Ngur ah VCP in thingpui min lo siam sak a, buhban leh chhangban kan ei hnu in Tualcheng ram hi darkar 2 tling lo deuhah kan va thleng a. Tualcheng khua luh hmaah kawng peng a lo awm a, thui vak lo chu gravel road kan zawh a. Mahse lei a lo hnip em mai a, kawng laih thar tih takah kawng bal thla leh leimin in a chhilh ṭhenkhat a lo awm bawk nen, Bolero chu a kal thui ta lo.

Ke a thui vak lo kan kal hnu in kawng peng a lo awm leh a, kawng pakhat chu Tuisa Lui panna niin a vei lama peng chu Lungno Khawhthla kawng chu a lo ni ta a. Kawng laih sa chu a tawp hma khawp mai. Kawng aṭanga vei lam pangah chuan ke rahna hnuhma a kal chho a, chu chu kan kalkawng tur chu a lo ni a.

Tualcheng VCP in hma a hruai a, DC leh SP Pu Puitea ten an zui a, an hnungah ka kal a. Kawng tak a awm tawh lo a, tlang pangah VC lamin an lo sah fai na hnu chu kan "kawng" a ni mai a. Ram kal ṭhang vak lo tan chuan hmaa kal te rahna hnu kha chhinchhiah uluk em em a, va rah ve chat chat mai tur ani. Nuam dangdai ve tak chu ani.

Tlemin vawn tur a vang deuh ṭhin a, lei hrulah hrui a lo zam ve deuh nen, pen deuh thauh thauh a ngai a. Thingkung leh hrui zam ah hling nei a awm bawk a, vawn tur melh uluk a ngai phian. Panhnah ang deuh deuh hnah a rawn uai thla nual a, DC leh SP in agriculture potential an titi dun mawlh mawlh laiin kei chu ka mit la ta ber chu kalkawng lei hnawng, huh leh hnah ṭawih ho zinga pangpar sendang te tak te te lo tla darh ve niaih ho kha an ni a. An mawi ang reng a, an delicate hmel bawk nen, an tlakna ram nen khan an inhmeh lo riau a, an in hmeh lohna lai tak te khan a ti lang mawi hle ten ka hre vel a. Mahse an rawn tlakna kung en tur chuan ka hawi chho ta lem lo; eng pangpar nge an nih pawh ka hre lo. Baseball cap ka khum a, ka hma lam thui tak ka hmu thei lo a, pangpar kung en tur chuan dah chhoh fe a ngai dawn a, chutiang tur chuan ka dinna hmun a nghet tawk lo a, ka ngam lem lo.

Thlan tla barh barh turin hun rei a duh lem lo khawp mai. Ka tarmit bun ṭhan loh zawk ka bun a, hmai a thlan nen a tawlh thla duh phian a. Kal pangai a kal a theih loh vangin ka pen deuh chawrh chawrh ṭhin a, ke thlak apiangin hnar ngulah a rawn sawt thla leh ṭhin a. Tarmit tel lova chhun eng, kawng zawlah pawh kal ngai lo tan chuan han lak thlak chi ziazang ni si lo, Covid19 ngaihtuah tawh lek lovin hmai leh tarmit ka khawih sek mai ani.

Fur ruahtui tlak tam hma ani bawk a, a hmun thlen chuan a nuam zek. Kawng nal pawh a tam ta lem lo. Lui pawh a lian lo a, lung leh thingluang ro a tam a, awlsam takin a kal chhoh zai zai theih a. A tuikhawhthla phei chu mawi tak ani. 

Tuikhawhthla in nghahna, tuikhuahte bulah thla kan la a. Helai hmun thlenna tura kalkawng zawng zawng ngaihtuahin Instagram a post tlak tur thlalak pakhat tal lak kha chu tihmakmawh ani. Tualcheng khaw mi hovin an sawi dan hmangin kan thla lakna lai te kha chu fur tui tam lai tak tak chuan tuikhawhthla in a hliah ṭhin e, an ti a, a nih duh hmel fu. Kawng lo sial ṭha se, fur vanglaiin va en leh ngei tur ani.

Thla kan la tui deuh ani, kan team ten min lo hawsan a. Mi 4 chiah kan bang ta: BDO Pu Chhuana, DC PSO Pa Khawma, BDO driver Pa KCa leh kei. Pa Khawman hma a hruai a, kal lama luidung kan zawh chhoh kha zawh lovin, “A chhak lamah kal ang u, kawng an sial thiam lo em mai, khilai kawng peng kha kan pawh hma zawk ang,” a ti a. Kan pali zinga ramvachal ber mai pawh ni lo ramvachal awmchhun ani bawk a, ngaih ṭha takin kan zui chho a. Kal lama kawng a awm lo kan tih kha chu nep te, mihring hniak awm ta lem lo ah khan kan han chho ta a.

Dar a tam ve deuh tawh a, hah tawh sa nen, rilṭam ṭan tawh nen chuan kham panga kawng bo chu duhthusam vak lo. Mahse Pa Khawma chuan kawng ka bo a tih duh miah lo a. A hnunga kal 3 te kha kan kal chak thei ve lo em mai a, kan um pha lo nasa a, min nghah laiin a kal lehzelna tur ngaihtuahna hun a nei mai pawh a, bo chu kan bo deuh chu ani. A khat tawkin “Hei, kawng hlui chu a ni tho ang, mihring hnu a awm,” a ti ṭhin a, a dik leh dik loh kan hre lem lo na in mihring hnu a awm anih chuan ‘helai hi kawng tlak ani lo ve, rauh san ang u’ titu te sulhnu a nih ka ring.

Ṭum khat chu ka pen fuh vak lo a, ka ke ka ulh ṭep. Ka kalpui te pawh a khat tawkin an tawlh zeuh zeuh a, tlema ngaihdam theihna hmun rualrem deuh (entirnan, thing nghenchhan tur awmna ang te) ah kan chawl haw zeuh zeuh a. Ka tawlh lohna chhan hi ka trekking chakna chhan ani a. April khan Adidas trekking shoes thar ka lei a, Spice Girls ho lar laia inches li a sang platform slippers neon green ka neih thin tih loh ah chuan ka pheikhawk neih tawh azawnga lawk ber leh bright ber a ni. Test ka chak em em a, ka han test ta a. An lo design fuh ngang mai a. Hun pangaia a lawk mah mah ka tih te kha tlang pang, rahchhan tur awm mumal lo ah chuan dinhmun phet tur lakah min lo ṭanpui nasa khawp a, ka leina chhan ber a chhuat hraw lutuk pawhin tawlh theihna chance lakah min hum ngang mai. Ka tawlh miah lo! Chhungkua leh ṭhian ho a trek emaw lui kal nikhua apianga vawi khat tal tawlh ziah kha midang tawlh laiin ka nghet tlat. Engineering an va thiam tak!

Pa Khawman vawnchhan tur tiang min sah sak a, mahse ka hawl thiam vak lo. Ka keng tho a, a ngaihna ka hre em em lo. Ka rilru la peng tu atan chuan a ṭha ve tho. Ka kut vei lam hi ka hmang thiam lo nasa khawp mai a, vei lampangah kham chiah a awm si a, kut ding lam pangin thing emaw hrui emaw hnim emaw tal ka pawt duh zawk si a, ka tiang chu ka hnuk kual ta vel mai mai. Bawkvak deuh thaw a ka kal chang phei chuan a hnawk lek lek. Kal lam ang bawkin tlang pang a thingkung zung lo chhuak pawr deuh emaw thingkung emaw hrui emaw inpawh tan na tur ka zawng kual zel a, a khat tawkin ka hrui pawh fuh loh an chat zeuh zeuh bawk a. Ṭum khat chu ka inhnuk chho tur chiah ka hrui pawh ber a dawk zawk mai a, ka phu chiang ngei mai. Khamah a tawlh liam thla chak bawk a, Tawlh ve ta ila tih rilru ah a rawn lang nghal thuak. Thing leh hrui ṭhenkhatah hling a lo awm ve chhen bawk nen, rilru a vak chak duh khawp mai. Chutih laiin lei hrulah hrui an lo zam a, kan petek leh khauh ṭhin bawk a.

Mahse han hlauh vak ngaihna pawh a awm lo. Ka hah tawh, ka hlau si, ti a tihtauh theih ni hek lo, kal duh ta lo ila kan tang reng ani mai a, ṭah vak pawhin sawtna awm chuang lo a, kal leh torh kha thlan tur awmchhun ani. Ka baseball cap pawh a dik lo zawngin ka khum a, hma lam hla deuh hlek en theih mamawh riau a inhriatna ka nei lian sawt hle. Ka hlau tawh ania aw, tih kha vawi thum vel chu ka sawiin ka hria. Kan in ramvachal hleih bawk a, Pa Khawman ka kal ngam loh apiangin a rawn let a, rah tur tlema pawng deuh a ke in min rahhrual sak a, emaw, inpawh kai na tur thing ṭang min zawn sak a, hma kan sawn ve bek bek zel a. Chutih laiin ani chuan “Hei chu Piin a duh dawn hi,” a ti a, eng hnim emawni hi a han pawt phawi a, a keng leuh leuh a. Hnim ka ti a, nauban pawh ani mai thei; ka tan chuan a in ang vek khatih lai chuan.

Phone theihngilh awm thut se, let leh ngai ta se a va retheihthlak dawn ve aw, kan ti a, kan nui dar dar a. Ka bag ah ka phone ka check zeuh phah. A awm ngei bawk a. Mahse awm lo pawh ni se, A thar ka mamawh tawh, tih mai na tur ani tawh ani.

Bawkvak a in ham tan ṭai ṭai laiin ka hnung chiahah Pu Chhuana a lo thleng a. Min ṭawng thlamuan tum kha a hah luatah a ṭawng letling ta hlauh! Hmanhmawh duh reng reng suh ti tur khan, “Hmanhmawh rawh hmanhmawh rawh” min ti. Kha chu ka ngaithla liam puat. A in register hman lo. Hmanhmawh dawn pawh ni ila, ka 4W tawh a, gear thlak theih pawh a ni tawh lo. Amah lah chu a nuih a za a, thlan bawrh bawrh chungin a in pha mar leh a. An nu bulah sa ei insum tur a nih laia Tualcheng VCP ina sa a ei zat ka hrilh mai thei ani.

Beidawn deuh rum rum hnuah kan kalna kawng kha kan va pawh ta hlawl mai a. Mihring hniak awmna nge nge chu kal a lo awlsam hle mai. Kal lampanga kawng awlsam kan tih hauh loh tur kha haw lamah chuan kan hmu rem ta fu. Ka tiang hawl pawh a ṭangkai leh tawh a, ka hmang thiam leh tawh; inpawh tan ṭang ṭang a ngai ta lem lo bawk a, kal a ti awlsamin min chhawk hle. Ka baseball cap pawh a dik zawngin ka khum leh tawh a. Kan chawlh chang pawhin tarmit pawh ka phelh a, ka hru fai vel.

Kan hma deuh hlekah SP team police 2 leh DC driver Pu Mamuana kan va pawh a. Pu Mamuana hian tumbu leh hnim hrang hrang a lo khai bawk a. Ram kal kan in hnehsawh hleih hmel hle mai.

Kan team ten ṭhu muang dar dar in min lo hmuak a, thingpui leh biscuit kan ei ho a. Mizo film emaw stage drama emaw ni tura mawiin kan thingpui in zawh veleh ruah a sur chiam mai a, kan chuanna motor ṭheuhah kan lut sang sang a, Tualcheng khua leh an VCP in kan pan ta a.

Kan thla la leh “short cut” la atalangin kan thleng tlai ta tih mai loh chu midang kha keini aiin an lo hahdam em em bik hran lo a. Kan team a Zote VCP ṭamchhawl phei kha chuan, E khai a ka mualpho der mai, a ti a ti mai a. Kan thlen tlai pui te zinga police 1 pawhin, Tuikhawhthla kha a mawi ka ti leh lo, a ti bal bal a. Helai kham pang hi Obeda slip disc injury lo ti chhuak a, surgery hial ngai khawpa lo ti na tu a lo ni tih te hriatchhuah leh a awl khawp mai. Him dam tak leh nui ho dar dar thei a kan trekking kan zo thei chu hlimawm tak ani.

Mahse taksa hah chuan a daih rei ve phian. Dar 10 a pel chho tawh a, rilṭam tawh vang te pawh a ni thei e, Tualcheng khua kan han thleng chho a, khaw dai ‘Welcome to Tualcheng’ tih in tarna post bulah VLTF ten gate an lo siam chu SDO(S) in a hmuhin, “E saw khua kan thleng dawn e, Welcome to Gate a in ti,” a ti hlawl. Ṭum danga ṭawngkam chhep fuh thei viau pawh an ṭawng sual ve nawk nawk tho mai. Kei chu Bolero seat hnungah ka ngawi hle hle.

Ka Instagram photo pawh ka lungawi viau e. Kawng an sial ṭhat hunah hmel lang zawngin kan la la leh em ang chu.