"After all there is throughout this world so far as man is concerned but a single race ¾ the human race, kept alive by one common blood, the human blood. All other talk is at best provisional, a makeshift and only relatively true.

Nature is constantly trying to overthrow the artificial barriers you raise between race and race. To try to prevent the commingling of blood is to build on sand.

Sexual attraction has proved more powerful than all the commands of all the prophets put together. Even as it is, not even the aborigines of the Andamans are without some sprinkling of the so-called Aryan blood in their veins and vice-versa.

Truly speaking all that one can claim is that one has the blood of all mankind in one's veins. The fundamental unity of man from pole to pole is true, all else only relatively so."~ Veer Savarkar:

The word "integration" has been used in this tiny state of Manipur every day. It has become a most common vocabulary among writers, scholars, politicians, spiritual leaders and media persons. In view of the present atmosphere and situations where groupism, clanism and communalism have taken stronger roots, we often hear people talking in terms of separate homeland like Zogam, Kukiland, Naga integration, etc.

We talk a lot about emotional integration, but it appears that we don't know the real meaning of integration. Where do the emotions spring? If we study scientifically we could find several sources. Our thoughts and mind simply create emotion of our self-image and our identity.

Nevertheless, if our glands and hormones are defect and cease to function, we may not be aware of our identity or self-image. Therefore, it may not be necessary to preach the so-called emotional integration any more because insane and lunatics seldom disintegrate.

When we read "heart" it is that place from where emotions arise, as well as thoughts and convictions. It makes me wonder whether the mind is simply a staging field where the input and output meet, but the heart is where the real essence is stored.

What are emotions? Emotion is our thoughts. We simply manage them, control them, hide them, stuff them, and ignore them and still they bubble to the surface.

We can't run away from our emotions since they are as much a part of us as our bodies, our dreams, and our thoughts. Suppress them, our energy gets dampen and this creates havoc in our lives and leads to the creation of disease.

What we can do is to learn to acknowledge them, accept them and express them in ways that are respectful to others and to ourselves. It is through embracing our emotions that we become more fully alive. To release the hurt and regain control, we must learn to uncover our buried emotions. This transformational process leads to a world of new choices, and allows us to make the changes in our lives necessary for realizing our goals.

What about our present day? Why integration seems to be a far-cry in our case? I do believe that the main factor is the emergence of ethnic chauvinism accompanied with different traditions and religions that indeed hinder the process of integration and oneness.

Then what might be the solution for our integration as a whole? From my personal point of view, to promote interracial-marriage is the only means for Manipur integration.

Looking back the past world history, Mohammedans and Christians have been fighting, killing and burning living people in thousands. However, interestingly, they still dare to call it Holy war or Jihad..! In the city of Pella, Macedon in 356 B.C a son was born to King Philip II and his wife Olympias, princess from Epirus.

His name was Alexander III, to be known to future generations as Alexander the Great. Alexander accepted that to hold together a single world of many different nations the people would have to intermingle freely without being poisoned by racism. The unification of his vast empire could be best achieved by intermarriage between the conquering and the conquered people.

He put his theory into practice by arranging mass marriages between his Greek and Macedonian troops and the people of Persia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Assyria, India, and every other nationality in the Empire. His own wife, Roxane, considered the most beautiful maiden of all Asia, was a captive from eastern Persia.

He planned to continue widespread intermarriage until all people would be one race, one nation, and one melting pot. Alexander's ambitious plan might have been successful except for an unforeseen bite from a mosquito. At age 32 he suddenly became ill and died within a few days.

In general, the idea that intermarriage can subdue racial hostility makes some sense. As a matter of fact, a racial group is merely an extended family that inbreeds to some extent. Therefore, our breeding can slowly merge by integrating genetically and culturally, once hostile groups.

That's why, although it is good to be the king (as Mel Brooks has noted), it isn't always so good to be the princess. Many a Ruritanian princess has found herself forced into marrying some chinless princeling from Lower Slobovia because their respective royal fathers desire half-Ruritanian / half-Slobovian grand children to cement a political alliance.

The world might be more peaceful, if we put this theory into practice by arranging mass marriage among Meitei, Naga, Hmar, Paite, Kuki, Mizo etc. As novelist Alexandar Solzhenitsyn said in his Nobel Prize speech, "The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face."

Nonetheless, intermarriage remains the best hope for melding Manipur`s ethnic crisis into one race and nation. What will break down the barriers of differences, hatred and hostile if mass intermarriage is put into practice?

How small our genetic and cultural differences are relative to racial groups from other community..! Now we are in the slog of daily life, trying to cope with all life's crises and still have time to relax and smell the flowers.

But there are still challenges raised by mass intermarriage that need to be addressed, whether you're in a Christian-Hindu-Muslim-Sanamahi.

An inter-race/faith Hindu marriage to a Muslim, or are facing other combinations of interfaith marriage complications.

And you could use some encouragement and inspiration for the integration of Manipur.