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UN DAY : Episode 1/The King From The Sky/Novel

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"The King from The Sky" or "Enter The King" by Ibomcha Kolom unfolds with Laysana receiving the prestigious Humanist Award from the President of UNO at the UN. It is a day celebration and the pretty girl is singled out for her social work, which is assisting those who are adversely affected by acid rain. It has been three years since she embraced this advocacy urged in part by a mysterious man named Manlay. This is an era of globalization when the earth is covered with acid rain. Governments have tried to save the earth with the use of a Super Computer installed in a space ship handled by Alice, an artificial female. The Super Computer has failed and Earth seems to be headed for doom. What role will Manlay play in averting this impending disaster?

Ibomcha Kolom’s novel, "The King From The Sky" is an eye opener for all of us who have contributed in the dire strait of our environment today. Imagine a world that is on the brink of disaster and the Super Computer that has been invented to avert the situation has failed. The events in this futuristic novel may as well happen to earth in the near future. The predicament that Laysana and Malay found themselves in is absolutely not far-fetched considering the rate of destruction that is happening to our environment today. This makes the story relevant to our present situation and is thus easy to relate to. Born under completely different circumstances, the main protagonists in Enter the King crosses paths in the most unusual way. And when they did- things are never the same again. This novel is a must read especially for the young generation who will soon inherit the world.





Summary

The pretty young girl named by Laysana receives the Humanist award from the President of U.N.O. in the UN—Day celebration. She was selected   for her works serving   the people affected by Acid Rain during the last three years. To see the award which is the figure of a young man with a spade she begins to remember a past life at continues:
The statue of young man has been standing on the mound in a big garden. 
Thirty years ago a Japanese scientist discovered a natural wave. He said that this is a rare spiritual wave originated from decease or living human being. He devised it well to be used in discovering a Super Computer which was to be installed in a huge spaceship   produced by U.N.O.  This Spaceship was the most powerful of U.N.O. It protected the earth from any danger.

An artificial known female entitled Alice handled it.  But it failed due to the failure of S.C. (Super Computer). Manlay, the orphan young man worked alone in a dreadful meadow. There, he had cut off the head of a big serpent.  But the headless   body had disappeared in to the water of the moat. Five years later the meadow had been turned into a big garden. 

While he was cleaning the    water   surface   of  the   moat   he had  been  killed by  the  headless  snake  by  coiling his legs   with  its tail  and    dragging    down under the  water.  His   dying    emitted   a   rare   wave which would be attracted   by the receiver that gave rebirth of the S.C.  His  will never died  that   his ghost  proceeded  his  further works and killed  the anti  social,  the  magician.

The   Acid Rain was falling at different parts of the Earth.  It was a great misery. Laysana and her party served the affected people.

The Spaceship returned and saved the Earth by stopping the acid rain.
At the eve of the perfect world he regained his consciousness that he disappeared. None could see him again. 
His statue had been set standing on the tip of the mound in the garden.
“Why did you come to the world?” asked Laysana as she was looking at the statue, as remembering and concentrating her mind to spread her love to everybody.

In the mean time She regains her remembrance: the UN—Day celebration. She begins hearing the clapping sounds.


















Contents
Episodes                                                                                                                                                                                                              
1.       UN—Day
2.       Enter  the  king                                                                                                        
3.       The Super Computer and the Key Wave                                                  
4.       The  two  babies                                                                                    
5.       A   big  meadow                                                                                                 
6.       A   kind  of  love                                                                                                   
7.       The  award                                                                                                         
8.       Access   to  the  meadow                                                                                       
9.       Path making                                                                                                                             
10.   Work: To  grow  tree                                                                                          
11.   Work:  Breaking  clods                                     
12.   Bench   making                                                                                                      
13.   The   last  six  days                                                                                                     
14.   The girl’s return                                                                                                       
15.   Samtan                                                                                                                      
16.   Acid   rain                                                                                                                    
17.   The  king  from  the  sky                                                                                            








Non  English  Words

Herosima : ………..: Hero this one    (hero    +    sima : this  one)
                                                               English     Manipuri
                                                                                 (Indian    language)
Manlay laysana : .. : A Manipuri naming word of an orchid flower

Manlay: ...............: A name of a male person

Laysana :…………..  :  A name   of female person

Kailash: ……………. :   A name Himalayan  mountain

Amrita : …………….:   Ambrosia

Indradeva : ………..: The king of god’s kingdom (Hinduism)

Nullah :………………:  Drain

Yasoda:……………… : Mother  of Lord Krishna(Hinduism)

Jungle: ………………. :  Forest              

Samtan:…………….. :  A name of forestry village

Lamdan:……………..:  A name of a  peak

Meetiesm:…………. :  A  religion of  Manipur

Pombi:………………. :  Swallow, Bird, Soul

Khamba Thoibi :…. :   A  famous  romantic  story  of  Manipur
                                      (Like Romeo & Juliet)
Sagar:……………….. :   Sea

Tunggon:  …………   :  A container for fish, used in fishing






Episode (I)

UN Day


Glitter, glitter Nations

Chant the name of Mother;
Bluish, bluish Planet,
Greenish, greenish The Earth.

Revolves round years;

Pigging back her child on back
Climbs up the hot ridges,
Get down into the cold lake.

Turning yourself days and nights;

Working never ending tirelessly
To rare up feeding the sucklings;
Your owe can't be repay in life.

Oh Mother worry no more;

Spray fully the blood rain
Of your children in the fields;
Seeding new seeds to budding;

The new human beauties.


This song opens the celebration at the place above which the huge spaceship is at stand as roof spreading vastly upwards the sky and the participants of different people from different countries have already covered fully. The program continue one after another.
At the special program the sounds of clapping arise as Laysana takes the award from the President of U.N.O. At once she is attracted to the award: the bright figure of a young man holding a spade in his right hand. As she is looking at the thing she remembers a statue which has been standing in the middle of a large garden. She forgets the other world, the day and the place adorned with all UN members, Alice: the guidance of the spaceship, Prime Ministers, Presidents, Secretaries and numerous known persons of the world.

The award received by her is the highest, called ‘Humanist Award’ for serving the humans who were affected by a series of imbalance natural phenomenon: high global temperature, ultraviolet rays of the sun, cyclones, earthquakes and Acid Rain during the period of last four years. Almost she dedicated her life at the works for the different people who were haunted by Acid Rain. UNO has selected her for the award as regarding her works.

Laysana, a simple and unfashionable young lady but adorns the snowy-clothes of perfect womanish styled at a traditional dress of a community remembers a past life at continue:
*She sees a vision in mind of a large happiness crowd in a garden; the numerous different people were noising as they gave a look at the flight of the Spaceship which was flying off the city after the great farewell. She also joined them happily. Then she turned away from the sky saying:
“Let’s go .....”

Her eyes searched someone at her right side.
“Hay, where you?” asked her. But she could not see him; she turned around again and again. She asked some people
 “Where is he, the young man who is standing beside me?”
Everybody began to search him as saying
“Where is he, just standing here now and a while ago?”
.
She called him loudly again and again. Nobody found him.


That time in the garden, on the road of the city everybody moved to and fro, from place to place and to every nook and corner. At last they gathered hopelessly.
In the meantime an old monk Meeteism (a religion of Manipur) came there and stood before her and said:
“My sweet child, don’t call him again. He will not come again that he was not a human being, he was the ghost that he died three years ago at the summit moments of rest after the complete performances of his hard work symbolized the highest peak of human beauty and while the simultaneously raising of the perfect thought about the modern world, the creation to judge romance, a deep-shocked with the operating thought about his unknown mother and the topic about endless different human-societies. All these combination of his human natures exposed a rare wave in the universe. But he could not get up again from his rest. But his will got up as the ghost and went to Samtan for his further work. Today a while ago the ghost regained the consciousness that he disappeared. And his death body has been lying under the water of the great moat in the garden”.

To hear those words everybody dumbfounded. She ran madly towards the garden. The crowd too followed her. The body was found under the water after a long search. To see the big swollen and spongy figure she could not know him. But she could identify the belt and the trouser. She neither spoke nor cried for the moment and for many days.

For the memory of him a beautiful statue holding his original spade was set up to stand on the little mound in the garden.

One day, on a full moon night she was standing on the top of the mansion looking at a little distance that the statue was standing bravely and brightly. Winds from the garden blew her hairs sporadically and echoing the words “I will see your lovely face when the wind, from the perfect society, blows your hairs sporadically” she was thrilled suddenly and began to cry saying:
 “I will live for your world, for your aim.”
Her love would not be confined but spray to every human.

Though her romance had broken a new full moon of a universal love shined vastly above the statue. But the message: the tears of the moon will be visible in the sky:

On the solitary face of
The Kailash Mountain’s cliff
The full moon appears
Hiding half way telling
The message of love.



To be continue 
UN DAY : Episode 1/The King From The Sky/Novel UN DAY : Episode 1/The King From The Sky/Novel Reviewed by Multi-Moon lights on November 06, 2019 Rating: 5

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