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Time to know your neighbours
The Telegraph | Arup Kumar Dutta | Jan 2, 2012
The seven states of the Northeast call themselves the seven sisters, but we rarely see genuine sisterly affection between them. It is only when two citizens from two different communities of this region confront the harsh realities of discrimination in a place like Delhi that they acknowledge their common identity as individuals from the broader entity called India’s Northeast. But within the region itself it is all fangs and claws, with sectarian and community considerations providing grist to mills of politicians.
There are two negative aspects to such un-sisterly behaviour. First, it enables outsiders, especially the astute politicians of the nation’s capital, to pursue the divide-and-rule policy which the British had so effectively used to administer this difficult region. I am sure many non-political but enlightened individuals in every state of this region feel a sense of humiliation when they see political “leaders” from Delhi fly down to their respective capitals to decide who will become the chief minister.
It is as if a new brand of imperialists have replaced the British and continued with the latter’s colonial policy. This also explains the decades of indifference and neglect faced by the Northeast till mounting public anger — especially when it assumed the insidious guise of insurgency — as also events such as the Sino-Indian war coerced Delhi to sit up.
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