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'Women marginalized in parts of North-East'
Times of India | Nirmalya Banerjee | TNN | Jan 10, 2013, 06.45 PM IST
When Nirbhaya is raped and killed in Delhi, the whole country rises in condemnation against the incident. But when a Manipuri actress is molested in distant Chandel while on a fund-raising show, it turns into a Meitei versus Naga issue. Citing this as an instance of discrimination against women in the north-east, associate professor of Manipur University N Vijaylakshmi Brara argued on Wednesday that women were still a marginalized part of society in many parts of the region.
She was speaking in Kolkata on 'Conflict, Gender and Displacement with special focus on India's North-East' at a conference organized by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration jointly with Calcutta Research Group. "What mattered in the Chandel incident was the pride and the honour of the community. Nobody bothered about the individual," she explained.
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