Delhites and chinky North Easterners
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: July 23, 2014 -

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Almost every alternate day, news comes streaming from New Delhi non-stop. These news bulletins have nothing to rejoice about rather they are invariably shocking and abhorrent.

After Nido Tania, a young student from Arunachal Pradesh was killed by a group of shopkeepers, a young professional from Manipur Shaloni Akha was beaten to death in the most barbaric manner by a group of people educated, nay indoctrinated with the philosophy of casteism and racism.

We wonder, if the Government of India and the Government of Delhi can ever feel the sense of insecurity enveloping the minds of almost all the people from the North East region living in Delhi.

For one isolated event, none can blame Delhi or for that matter Delhites. But what is seen in the national capital and surrounding areas is not a case of some thugs targeting one or two people who do not look like them, who do not talk like them or who do not eat like them.

People from the North East region are being targeted, harassed, raped, tortured and murdered in every part of the city in a systematic manner.

All these attacks when collated and studied together suggest that they are not sporadic but point to a sustained campaign driven by deep rooted hatred (of people from the North East) and fuelled by racism.

According to the Aryans of North India including the Delhites, the Dravidians of South India are the Sanskritised monkeys just as the Ramayana depicts and the Mongoloids of the Northeast are the jungalees and the Chinkees. In the eyes of the Dravidians, the North Indians are the Gangetic Barbarians.

In short, the great nation called India is divided into several regions, each claiming to be superior to the others in terms of race and civilizational progress.

The Delhites are the extremists in terms of racial profiling as indicated by the series of violent attacks and incessant harassment of people from the North East.

To majority of the Delhites, if not all, the idea of India ends in West Bengal in the East.

One needs to go beyond the symptomatic incidences of racism and racial discrimination in India but identify the Indian racism that operates at the level of policy and statecraft.

From August 2008 to September 2011, under the Early-Warning Measures & Urgent Procedures of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), four Special Communiqués were sent by the Chairpersons of CERD to the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations.

The fourth Special Communiqué by Anwar Kemal sent on 2nd September 2011 expressed his regrets that India has not provided any follow-up replies on the implementation of recommendations of CERD’s concluding observations made in 2007 regarding the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples in Northeast India.

Thus, it can be safely concluded that the Government of India is not every keen to address the issue of racism.

Perhaps the State of India is helpless in the sense that the vast majority of its people are not psychologically prepared to accept and accommodate people from the North East in their midst.

Again, Delhites are the front-runners and strongest pillars of the racist regime seen in the country. Under such state of mind and ethos informed by Brahminical values, volumes and volumes of statutes or the world’s finest police force would not be able to do anything.

Notwithstanding job opportunities provided by Delhi, the city is fast transforming itself into a Nazi concentration camp or a torture chamber at least for the North Eastern people.

The only plausible solution at the moment, if we must suggest, is shifting the capital of India to either Kolkata or Chennai.