The Wanderer

It was November, 2019. The location was the state of Assam, actually its Guwahati city, to be more precise. The otherwise busy National Highway 17 running through the city was drowning in utter silence and the pains and tears of the people living nearby. The only sound from the highway was that of the Paramilitary forces’ trucks, carrying Paramilitary jawaans to 'control situation'. Assam Police was there ready all the time. Some of us who reside by the highway used to go to the then all-time-empty highway and kept watching the road and looked up to the sky with eyes wet, in heartache, helplessness and frustration. There were protest rallies and gatherings in places of the city. We shouted slogans on the roads of the city for our people. We cried for our land and our culture. The young students wrote posters against then Citizenship Amendment Bill ( CAB), with their own blood. State Government imposed Section 144 in the city and in many other places of the state. Internet conne...

North-east India was a historically independent sovereign land and later it was strategically added to mainland India by a treaty called Yandabo Treaty in 1826, signed between the British and the Burmese without any consent of the Ahom kingdom, Kachari kingdom, or the other territories ruling the region. As a result, the sovereign region was politically firmly added to mainland British India and various parts of the entire region, with its new identity as North-east India, politically lost their sovereignty and identity forever. I n 1947, there were only 3 states in this region- Assam, and the two ‘princely states’ of Manipur and Tripura . At present, North-east India is divided into eight states- Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Manipur remained a 'Princely State' from 1891 till 1949. The cause is not clear, but the region seems to be treated as primarily ‘Vote Banks’ and as 'not-so-important' citizens by the Cent...

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