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One does not come to such damning conclusions flippantly or in haste. After all, to say that I live in a failed State constitutes a condemnation of myself as well since I am part of a so-called democratic system. But I have discussed the matter with a whole lot of people from different walks of life and they all agree that what we have of Assam today is just a failed State. A State or a country fails not just because the
government has failed but rather because the people have failed themselves and their State or country. Quite obviously, the government must take the bulk of the responsibility for a failed State because all
power is concentrated in the government in our brand of democracy. So when a State gets to be viewed as a failed State the government, and those who run it but fail to ensure good governance, must take the
major share of blame. But the people too cannot escape responsibility for a failed State. I shall come to the issue of how the people fail their State and thereby fail themselves, but it is important to begin at the
beginning.
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2014.
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On January 29 this year, Nido Tania, a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh studying in Delhi was beaten up with iron rods by some traders of Lajpat Nagar after an altercation with a shopkeeper who had made fun of the young student's hairstyle. The post-mortem report shows that his death was caused by severe head and lung injuries. The police have arrested six people whose bail applications have been
turned down. Considering the crime rate in Delhi, this would probably have been written off as just one of those things. After all, India's capital city is witness to several murders, rapes and robberies every day. However, the brutal killing of Nido Tania cannot be dismissed as just one of those things simply because one cannot run away from the fact that he was killed because of the accident of his birth-because someone from Arunachal Pradesh did not look like someone of his age from mainland India. And yet there could be no question of denying his Indian nationality and citizenship.
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