this is said to be one of the common queries faced by the fellow Indian traveller in the north eastern states which lies very much inside the geographical boundaries of Indian state. I wonder what is preventing the rest of India from acknowledging the north east as their integral part (after 60 years of independence)...if you are countering the statement please tell me if you had noticed any of the massacres or bomb blasts taken place in the region a few days prior to the TAJ hotel attack. ie did you come across the obscure single column 3 inch news item on the third page of the national daily.
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would it be because
the very low population of the region and the weak political bargaining power owing to very small number of parliamentary seats
geographically cut out from the rest of India
the conspicuous anthropological differences
North eastern India is having our country’s longest running insurgencies. These movements have been waging for a couple of generations and one may wonder if the ends have shifted for the means.
"If India was the Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, the remote North East of that country is its Hidden Jewel"
…Tony Howard
And what is the narrow thread that ties India as a state of ‘unity in diversity’. Is it is religion as the RSS claims – from Gujarat to Arunachal and from Kanyakumari to Kashmir- or speaking of it when how did a way of life became a religion...
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Sometimes, i am forced to wonder if democracy is really what it is supposed to be. I think it is merely reduced to a power game. You can expect to get a fair deal if you politically matter else you do not exist for our so called representatives. The issue of north-eastern states aptly highlight this fact. I think there need to be a paradigm shift in so-called democratic set-up.
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