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Please let the boys cry
The Telegraph | Dipanjan Sinha | May 22:
A fallout from this unity is a matter of concern — if you can play the guitar and soccer with equal elegance, if you have a naturally athletic build, at whom girls peek from the corner of their eyes, and if your mother tongue is something that most others don't understand, you are asking for trouble. Unfortunately there is a region in this country that produces such boys in abundance. The others “affectionately” call them Chinky.
Whether Richard Loitam, the 19-year-old Manipuri student who was murdered last month, was a victim of this insecurity, is a matter for conjecture. But he definitely was a victim of a larger malaise of deafening silence.
The culture of not being outraged at something heinous. The culture that has devoured several Okram Laabas and Jackio Heisnams. If Richard's preliminary post-mortem report, the photographs after his death and the hostel warden's version are followed, there is one common truth. The boy was beaten up brutally and no one complained.
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