Zairema
| Zairema | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 March 1917 Hmunhmelṭha, Mizoram, India |
| Died |
17 December 2008 (aged 91) Aizawl, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | India |
| Education | BSc (1940), BD (1945) |
| Alma mater |
Gauhati University Serampore College |
| Known for |
Mizo literature Mizo Bible |
| Spouse(s) | Thangdailovi |
| Parent(s) | Doliana Khawlhring |
| Awards |
Hon. D.Litt. Hon. D.Div. MAL Book of the Year 2003 |
Zairema /ˌzaɪˈrɛmə/ (4 May 1917 – 17 December 2008) was a Presbyterian minister, and a pioneer in theology and literature among the Mizo people of northeast India. He was the first Mizo to obtain the degrees of BSc and BD. He died of cardiac problem on the morning of 17 December 2008 at his residence in Aizawl at the age of 91. He is best remembered as the "father of Mizoram Synod".
Zairema was born in Hmunhmelṭha, a small village in the eastern Mizoram. He was the eldest of the three sons of Doliana Khawlhring and Aibuani. His father Doliana was among the first literate Mizos and was an elementary school teacher at Champhai (Chawnchhim). Zairema was baptised by the first Mizo Pastor Vanchhunga on 2 September 1917. His father died from falling off of a tree in 1922 so that they were raised solely by his widowed mother. He studied at Champhai Primary School from 1922 to 1924. He completed his elementary education from Government Boys' ME School (then Sikulpui) at Aizawl in 1931 in first class. He matriculated in first class from Government High School at Shillong, Meghalaya, in 1936. He continued at Cotton College, Guwahati for Intermediate of Science (ISc), which he finished with first class, and then BSc with major in chemistry in 1940. He was immediately appointed as headmaster at the Harasinga High School. But after two years in 1943, to fulfil his real ambition, he joined Serampore College from where he completed Bachelor of Divinity in 1945 in first class. He made a record of the institute as the first in the merit and the first to have secured first class under the entire Senate of Serampore College.
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