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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
At a time when the discourse among North-Easterners in Delhi is centred around the death of Nido Tania, a student from Arunachal Pradesh, and sharp remarks of racism are flying thick and fast, a central government limping on its last legs has responded with a typical knee jerk reaction by setting up a Committee to look into this so called 'racial prejudice' that visits people from the region regularly like the measles. The Committee comprises an all-male team of retired bureaucrats as if all the wisdom about social and racial prejudices resides with them. That the Home Ministry could notify those names of people of privilege who have never walked in the shoes of the ordinary North- Easterner shopping in the crowded sabzi mandi of Delhi is scandalous. In retrospect this seems like an attempt to quickly shut up the protests and assuage the anger of the people of the region studying, working or living in Delhi.
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