Call for Paper: Racial Profiling: Justice for North East People
Last Date : August 31, 2012

CALL FOR PAPER

"A country should be judged on the basis of how it treats its minorities."
- Gandhi

As you are aware the people of Northeast have been harassed, prejudice, humiliated, outcaste and discriminated almost every day in their own country. They are verbally abuse and stereotyped "Chinky", "Nepali", "Bahadur", "Chinese" "Chingchong", "sexy" and various other slurs. We know Indians are hypersensitive to slur outside the country. However within India, the same people remain oblivious to the far more frequent and intense racial insults, harassment and violence heaped on India's citizens from Northeast India.

The continued sexual assaults and heinous crimes against the women of the Northeast people increases at an alarming rate. Metropolitan Indian cities have a tendency to be notorious regarding women's safety in general but the recent spike in such untoward incidents indicate that sexual predators find mongoloid facial features women as an 'easier prey'.

Leaders in New Delhi failed to handle the issues pertaining to the region with more sensitivity and maturity. Rather than compounding the problem by their myopic view of the region via a security lens only. Six decades after the nation's independence, citizens from this region are still forced to conduct their daily life with guns pointed at them by their own Government.

The indigenous inhabitants of this region are still forced to live with the draconian Armed Forces special Powers Act. Decades of ASFPA has only helped propagate a culture of violence and hate. Fundamental rights of the people are not recognized. Largest democratic country cannot overlook the loopholes in the myopic vision by the central leaders of the past.

Mainland India considered the region only for ethnic conflicts, terrorist and secessionist, however, one has to go beyond this simplistic, suspicious interpretation of complex phenomena and rather needs to look at its deeper 'Roots and Causes'.

The mainstream media only covers news about violence and insurgency in the region instead of covering thousands of other stories that more truly reflect its rich vibrant culture, history and unique landscape. It's a shame that for many decades India's government, politicians, and rest of the country still continue to ignore the region. It has mostly been a case of out-of-sight and out-of-mind as far as the mainstream media is concerned.

In this context, it is proposed that an academic is edited on the theme 'North East's "Are we Indian" Question?' by inviting academic/research papers/articles from academician, writer, scholar, administrator, human right's activists, NGOs, etc. to be published by reputed publishers with ISBN.

Papers submitted should be in original, own finding and have not been publish anywhere. No registration fee. No word limit. No grammatical errors and spelling mistake. I would like to invite you to submit your paper for this book which of course is an impressive academic exercise. I shall appreciate your contribution.

Please use one of the acceptable referencing, footnotes, bibliographic style and include brief abstract of the paper along with details about the author. Paper should be submitted at e-mail: kinepna(at)gmail(dot)com
on or before August 31, 2012.

Papers submitted should focus on at least one or more of the following issues/ sub-themes

• Racial/Social Profiling and Prejudice
• Media Bias
• Human Trafficking
• Out Caste
• Labelling Armed Movement as Terrorist
• Alienation from Democratic Processes
• Women's Safety
• Economic Despair, Social Injustice and Political Oppression
• Issues which have relations with the present theme