Knots by Northeast

The Northeast and its Bandhs

Entry posted by Subir Ghosh on 7 August 2009.

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We have seen two, virtually spontaneous, bandhs in the Northeast in the days just gone by. One was a relatively-short 12-hour Assam bandh called in protest against the letting off of the accused in the botched-up Parag Das murder case. The other was a much more gruelling 48-hour bandh called in Manipur over the cold-blooded, fake encounter of a former militant. Bandhs have been so rampant in the Northeast in the last 20 or so years that people have become inured to them. And bandhs, more often than not, are a success without the advocates of the bandhs having to drum up much support for them...

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The title of this blog has been lifted from the introduction to Frontier Travails—Northeast: The Politics of a Mess, by the same author.

Frontier Travails had been a historical assessment of the Northeast, and Knots by Northeast had been mean to draw the reader into the historicity of the mess that the Northeast was, both in the past, as well at the time the book was written in 2001. Not much seems to have changed since then. All for the wrong reasons.

This blog will not be preoccupied with the partylines way of looking at politics. Yet, politics the blog will surely be about in many ways without being morbidly obsessed with headlines. Knots by Northeast will be harsh on that recalcitrant lot who refuse to change for the better, and remain steadfast in not letting others change either. All for a good reason.

Subir Ghosh, incidentally, is also editor-publisher of NortheastUnlimited.

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