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A truly dangerous profession : Journalists of the Northeast
The Telegraph | Arup Kumar Dutta | March 19
One will meet them in the remotest corner of this region, armed with nothing else but a notebook and pen, in hot pursuit of a “story”. Some do not hesitate to take personal risks to ferret out information of vital importance to society. Their zeal and motivation should be emulated by those ostensibly responsible for taking that society on to the path of progress and development, particularly our bureaucrats.
I am speaking, of course, of the journalists of the Northeast. They are a breed apart, for they work in what is called “a conflict zone”. Unlike their brethren in, say Delhi, who work from the relative safety of air-conditioned editorial rooms and become nationally recognised faces besides earning cash and laurels, the media folks of this region have to get on with the job in the face of great odds.
Manipur, for instance, has been turbulent for quite some years, thereby giving rise to a number of media martyrs who have been caught in the crossfire between the militant groups and the armed forces. The death of some of them, like Konsam Rishikanta Singh of the Imphal Free Press on November 17, 2008, or of T. Brajamani Singh, editor of the English daily Manipur News, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on August 20, 2000, briefly touched the national consciousness, to peter out soon. But others like Khupkholiyan Jimte, editor of Lentai magazine, Yembem Megha, correspondent of North East Vision or R.K. Sanatomba, editor of Kangla Lan Pung remained within the regional periphery and that, too, for an unacceptably short time.
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