21 August 2010: Chinland is a developing land, although the pace of its advancement is so slow that it is yet nowhere near to compete with other developed nations.

Background: The issue merits a heated debate till the sun goes cold. To the Kukis, chief-ship is age-old. Long before democracy replaced monarchy in India, in the Kuki-inhabited regions of the sub-continent’s north-eastern states and its military-ruled neighbour, Myanmar’s north-western frontiers, an unique method of hill-village governance evolved out of environmental compulsions. Good or bad, the situation in the tribal settlements demanded a semblance of self-rule in the near-total absence of proper connectivity to better-civilized societies. That’s how every Kuki village had a chief in the helm of administrative affairs, and the forest-land a chief and his villagers could possibly lay their hands upon came under a particular chief-ship. Attachment to it was purely voluntary.

23 March 2010: Fear that India may be putting renewed pressures on Burma’s ethnic opposition groups operating along its international borders with Burma, notably the Chin National Front (CNF), is creeping back following fresh high-level talks between the Indian government and the military junta in January.