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Remote Indian state becomes rock music hub
NY Daily News | , June 23rd 2012,
Rock music has become a means of survival for the youth of Manipur, caught between the large presence of the Indian army and the separatist rebels. For them rock music is a statement against India's mainstream culture which seems alien and imposed by national authorities.
Many Manipuris feel that the concept of being "of India" in any meaningful sense is one they find difficult to entertain with a sense of isolation that is not just geographical, but also ethnic, linguistic, economic and political.
Such alienation is common in a number of the "Seven Sisters" -- the group of northeastern states encircled by four other countries and connected to the rest of India by a sliver of land that arches over Bangladesh.
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