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The Telegraph | Ipsita Chakravarty | January 7 , 2012
The “state of exception” is a “state of emergency”, an extraordinary circumstance that was only meant to last a short while but has now become a “paradigm of government”. Giorgio Agamben describes such a state as a “blank and empty space”, deserted by laws and by any form of governance other than security. For decades, Manipur has been this blank space, sealed from view by the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which was imposed on the state shortly after its rancorous union with India. Since then, the rest of the country has projected its own fancies on this space. Official reports speak of insurgency and ethnic conflicts, of militants killed and arrested, and of sinister Chinese influence.
One installation had a photograph of Sharmila on a blood-stained cloth that covered a stretcher, making you wonder, with a start, what you had missed in the news. An installation by Pradip Phanjouban had her photograph in what appeared to be an oven, flanked by cardboard packing boxes. As if to drive home the point, the boxes bore airport stickers that said “Security Checked”. One of the documentaries proudly spoke of the “28-year-old virgin” who had launched her fast after the Malom massacre. Already, the image of the living martyr seems to have been appropriated by a local iconography.
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