[Assam] mainland vs northeast in delhi

[Chan Mahanta]

>Robin Hibu, himself a North-Easterner (from Nagaland) and an IPS 
>from Arunachal Pradesh cadre



*** Doesn't that explain everything :-)?








At 2:08 PM +0100 7/15/07, utpal borpujari wrote:
>what is most unfortunate is that the booklet has been authored by 
>Robin Hibu, himself a North-Easterner (from Nagaland) and an IPS 
>from Arunachal Pradesh cadre. An advisory to students is not an 
>unwelcome step, but the way it has been done is the most insensitive 
>way to do it. The least Delhi Police and Hibu (again, he being from 
>the NE) could have done was to consult representatives of 
>organizations of NE students in Delhi (every state/ethnic community 
>from NE has its own student body in Delhi), as well as prominent NE 
>people residing in Delhi. - Utpal Borpujari / New Delhi
>
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>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
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>having been in delhi for sometime as a student, i see
>it is getting worse.
>
>x
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><http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070712/asp/frontpage/story_8048182.asp>http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070712/asp/frontpage/story_8048182.asp
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>Right intentions, wrong message
>- Delhi police accused of dividing India into
>?mainland? & ?Northeast?
>NISHIT DHOLABHAI
>
>New Delhi, July 11: Delhi police?s advisory to youths
>from the Northeast studying in the capital is being
>seen by most as segregating the region from the
>so-called mainland.
>
>The minister for development of the northeastern
>region (DoNER), Mani Shankar Aiyar, had only recently
>discouraged the use of this syntax. ?There is no
>mainland, you are the mainland,? he had told a
>reporter in Shillong.
>
>Aiyar was unavailable for comment on the booklet
>released by Delhi police, but those who responded
>seemed to cringe at the thought of someone advising
>students from the region to change their food habits,
>customs and manner of dressing to assimilate into the
>?mainstream?.
>
>Dipankar Gupta, professor of sociology at Jawaharlal
>Nehru University, said the police?s advice not to
>create a ?ruckus in the neighbourhood? by cooking
>?smelly dishes? and dress decently was gratuitous, to
>say the least.
>
>?The police come up with these advisories, but there
>is no implementation. There should be a departmental
>memo of some sort that if a person from the Northeast
>is harmed, punishment will be stringent,? Gupta said.
>
>Moses Kharbithi, who is doing his MPhil at JNU, said
>the advisory was tantamount to undermining the ability
>of Northeast students in New Delhi to assimilate. ?I
>wonder if they have given such booklets to students
>from the South,? he said.
>
>Kharbithi said the fact that the booklet was
>well-intentioned could not mask the sense of
>discrimination.
>
>Asom Gana Parishad MP Arun Kumar Sarma and his
>Congress colleague Kirip Chaliha said there was no
>denying the need to spruce up security for students
>from the region in view of some incidents in the
>recent past. But commenting on food habits and
>clothing was unfair, the duo said.
>
>?How can one tell somebody what to eat and how to
>dress?? Sarma asked.
>
>Chaliha said he would take up the issue with the authorities.
>
>
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