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Know the 'Northeast People'
Seven Sisters Post | Teresa Rehman (Aug 24):
They serve dishes in hotels, guard our offices and apartment complexes, clean your office cubicles, and give you a haircut in the salons. Today, they feel threatened and want to go home.” This is how The Times of India describes the “exodus” of people from the Northeast from Bangalore to their native places. A sudden spurt in the “unexplored”, “exotic”, and “remote” northeast India has inspired journalists in the so-called national media to dish out intriguing stories that would “sell”. But this apparently simple story was loaded with ignorance and apathy about the region.
The stereotyping of the people from the region as surviving doing odd jobs and are easily distinguishable because of their mongoloid features is a disturbing trend. Well, the region has suddenly evoked interest in the “national media” and this has also led to the origin of a new term “Northeast People”, possibly coined by the media again. And for the uninitiated, the region is an enigma which paratroops into the national media radar often for the wrong reasons — violence and bloodshed. It is difficult for the journalists to distinguish the region as eight separate states having a distinct culture, dress and food habits, and identity. Another interesting analysis titled “N-E: The India we don’t know” which appeared in The Times of India again starts with “Or is it the India we do not care to know?
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