In fact, when the bullets started flying on March 10, 2018 with trigger happy Assam Policemen opening fire on the Mizo students and reporters, Lalthlamuana Ralte, assistant professor of Economics in the prestigious Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, Mizoram, who is also a well known social observer and commentator, had a momentary flashback which he promptly typed into his facebook wall for all the world to see: “Today is the first time invaders fired on defenders of our land since 1871, when invaders then too fired at our warriors defending our lands. At that time the Mizo did retaliate but only in defense because the British failed to respect the boundary line between us drawn earlier by themselves intruding into our lands to set up their tea estates.” The only noteworthy difference then and now, is that the current defenders at Zophai are descendents of the same defenders of the land of 1871, whereas the people they stand up against are no longer the British who left in 1947, but the officialdom of the Indian state and now-fellow Indians who migrated into those areas during the century since then and literally poured into in the wake of India’s gory independence pang and still flooding in till date.