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ID:
135707
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| Summary/Abstract |
The 6th Schedule debate is once again rearing its head in the State. Not surprisingly, a clear pattern of its cyclic recurrence is now more of less established. It would normally come about when the politics of the Assembly variety sinks into a lull midway into its term, and the dreary mediocrity of issueless politics begins looking for new issues to arrest people’s imagination in order that the elected politicians may have something to save their political careers. This pattern of State politics is not exclusive to the 6th Schedule issue but equally true of so many others, the territorial integrity issue for instance. It is often said threats of war unite the people, and, therefore, politicians periodically employ sabre rattling as a strategy to achieve this effect whenever the public are restive and the politicians are insecure about their political careers. This is, however, not to say these issues are trivial.
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ID:
157033
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ID:
148825
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ID:
164003
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ID:
157032
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ID:
157021
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ID:
148844
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| Summary/Abstract |
Six unnatural deaths, 70 injured on a single day is by all means a tragedy.
The casualty figure in the January 4 earthquake has risen to seven with
the death of one more in a school building collapse on January 6. This
sense of tragedy is despite the desensitisation to violent deaths that
insurgency torn places like Manipur has undergone. But the fact is, if
at all this is a consolation, the casualty figure could have been much
worse.
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ID:
159653
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ID:
176218
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ID:
176420
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ID:
175605
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ID:
072063
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ID:
077842
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ID:
108893
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ID:
079032
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ID:
117116
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ID:
164371
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ID:
100856
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ID:
148876
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| Summary/Abstract |
In any discussion on Manipur at this juncture, be it development, culture,
capital investment, ethnic tensions, education, trade and commerce,
youth unrest and for that matter practically every area of activity in the
state, including the fine art of statecraft, one overwhelming question
remains the common denominator – the law and order situation. This
question looms over every other issue and more often than not, its very
presence freezes all other discussions, making them redundant. In
contemplating Manipur, it is with sadness one is reminded of the rather
cynical little parable from the kindergarten books, of the mice community
making big plans about their future and suddenly realizing before any
of their plans can be executed, the cat in the house will have to be
belled.
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ID:
113569
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