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In India's Northeast, Youth Crave Global Links, Development
New York Times | Samrat | March 14, 2012, 7:47 am
Perhaps some of them do, but I suspect the majority actually have no issues with modernity per se. I was born and grew up in Northeast India and I’ve seen the hunger for a better life as it is popularly understood in most places. I know the love for branded clothes, and the desire to shop in malls, which are mistakenly seen by locals as symbols of development.
The battles here are not against modern lifestyles. They are against loss of ethnic homelands and rule by outsiders. Given enough political autonomy over their areas, most of these peoples would gladly join the modern, globalized world, if changes here in the past 20 years are any indication.
The average Indian from the mainland has nothing in common with the average Naga, for example: No shared history in roughly 5,000 years preceding British rule, no shared culture, no language or religion that binds them.
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