Fellow bloggers!
My wife is an Angami ( a Naga tribe) from Nagaland and I am a Tamil Brahmin! Over the period of 10 years of courtship with her I have immersed in learning of geo-politics and history of the north east and in my personal opinion north east is facing what I call ‘AFRICANIZATION’ rather ‘Balkanization’ the reason behind this is, during the first decade of independent, India NEFA region ( Assam ) was present which later on after various accords broke down into different states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalay etc. and look at each state now we have hill councils!

The root cause of the North East problem back in the fifties and even in 2011 remains single ie, CARRYING FORWARD OF THE BRITISH POLICY BY THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT OF LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES IN NORTH EAST, mainland Indians (with no fault of theirs) fail to understand the historical identity of Nagas, Mizos, Garos, Khasis etc. as the time passed by the lower count of various ethnic populations withdrew the steam from an armed fight against the Indian government adding on to that extortion by various underground groups has reduced the fight for freedom into a mafioso type law and order problem in Nagaland, Manipur and Karbi hill districts.
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