Talking about uniting our people during the intense love-hate situation in Manipur sounds like being a traitor to my beloved land. Some narrow-minded handful gangs are burning the state, it is ardent and customary to oppose and backlash them.

But, more than homeland, I prefer to see the unity among us today! Though we live there fighting, looting and killing one another, we are the victims of identity crisis here. When one crosses Bengal border, we are 'chinky', illiterate tribes of the 21st century.

Even those respectable IAS, IPS, sportsmen, journalists and social workers are facing identity crisis, yet they silently suffer. So what is the harm in taking pains for some more hard years till we all unite? Unity! Word seems some utopian sobriquet as what 'Nagalim' is to the future generation.

As the world moves inexorably toward completion and perfection, some tribal are just awakening to a less sovereign, less comfortable world, prompting the kind of anxiety among the less ignorant and the poor people that continues to create unnecessary tension among the peace loving states.

There is a deep concern over issues of personal and national identity in which the hard right is rooted. People feel an invisible murdering of our sentiments. Our honest, simple and the hospitable nature are against us now. People take us as some weak, fragile and insane soul.

The mainland ignores us saying we are just a parasite. We don't have resources to feed ourselves, but what about our contribution to national integration?

The North Eastern region was born out of the cataclysm of Indian independence after 2 centuries from British rule, only to save the nation-state theory. But the concept of NE region is now irrelevant.

India needs to change its own taglines, 'Unity in Diversity' or 'Hindi Chini bhai bhai' for we are mainly ignored/treated/singled out as outsider due to our mongoloid feature.

It is a well-known fact that India will not take care of its so-called North East citizens as gently and lovingly as they claim to be in the International Groups. Instead they always blame that we are not cooperative with them.

There has not been any such incident of hurting them in the past. In turn they rape, molest, torture and humiliate the NE group.

It's political correctness, but we're not airing issues like hostility and crime to the mainland. Indians are tired and useless in controlling the entire North East at gunpoint. What they do is to ignite and tempt a group or other to create tension every moment.

Thus, sidelining pure and genuine demands for indigenous identity. Decade long struggles for an independent identity has been clouded with small and irrelevant issues like homeland, integrity and poverty. The large numbers of North East people say politics is not relevant to their lives. But the politics is playing a hard cheese.

Every 5 years there's change of political party at Delhi. With new government comes new promises yet the same issues. The leaders pretend that these are not serious issues, or if you raise them you side with the revolutionaries and hardliners.

India's 'greatest single failure' lies in its inability to integrate people from the Indian periphery as its own citizen. India's greatest challenge, beyond internal security is coming up with Indian notion of the 'divide and rule' policy. Our culture is at risk from mixed Indian idea, spawned by a 'mongrel nation', being adopted by India.

If politics doesn't seem to have a purpose, it leaves a vacuum into which people with simple solutions and xenophobes can slip. One major worry is that the petty politicians who are now neither ours nor are they for the Indian government.

Responsibility of a good representative is a far cry. Why can't these politicians do something together? We need to ensure that the ideology we create North East region are properly democratic and accountable, so that every one feel they own their own land.

North East people are living in non-contiguous territories that had no economy of their own. Our lack of autonomy, such as that on borders, translated into severe restriction of movement on people and goods meant that we are forced to continue our dependence on the Indian economy.

The past 4 years of the 'Nagalim' issue has seen an acceleration of the frightening trend of the years prior, while the destruction of infrastructure has been taking place in unprecedented rates. Highway blockades, rampaging public buildings and hatred feeling among us have left the North East as scenes of war-torn areas facing complete demolition.

The resulting losses are estimated at thousands of crore of rupees, not to mention their impact on normal lives. The military actions have also affected the mind of peace loving people, yet blaming on our hostility towards India.

What the history and the development of some of the identity crisis indicate is that these crises have had some impact on the development of entire North East region in the past and the present.

Although, we fight and quarrel every day, we should try to remove the ill feelings among ourselves in times of saving our unique identity. Hope this will effectively improve many social and political issues that are causing strains on the future generations of the Indian North East region.