203. The Mizo Cultural Society

The "Mautam" : The flowering of the Bamboo flower every 48 years which in turn gave rise to widespread famine (the flower attracts rats, the rats destroy crops)- The Mizo Cultural Society organized itself into the Mautam front to tackle the famine and from then on morphed into the Mizo National Front to aggressively push for statehood for Mizoram,