My Life Journey

MY LIFE JOURNEY
From Akuk Village Nagaland to England UK

When the British left the Naga Hills shortly after WWII and returned home in 1947, Akuk was a primitive village atop an ancient ridge connected to other Lotha villages only by
footpaths. This is the memoir of a boy from Akuk village who was three years old that year, and who in less than thirty years was in England paying back the colonial rulers' visit, not as a tourist or an errand runner, but as a professional medical doctor.

During those intervening years, unbeknownst to him, while the village boy was preparing himself in an educational system that left much to be desired for the unlikeliest of futures in England, the concept of the "Global Village" came into the English language via the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s. My Life Journey: from Akuk Village Nagaland to England UK is a veritable example of the intersection of a Naga village and the "Global Village" in the personal and professional life of Dr Tssikenthüng Kithan. What sets his narrative apart are the immersive details told in authentic voice from start to finish.

Paul Pimomo/Hümtsoe, Emeritus English Professor, Central Washington University, USA, also born in Akuk village, a few years after Dr Tssikhen Kithan.