1 Voice To Be Heard
34 north east MPs need one voice to solve racial problems
The violence perpetrated on the northeast students including girls by the locals and their landlords in the nation’s capital and also the Police’s subsequent refusal to admit their FIRs against the culprits is only a repetition of the past. On many occasions, most of the crimes, which could have been averted, took place due to the inattentiveness of the Police personnel in Delhi.
This year in the month of January, yet another northeast girl was raped in Delhi by a man who offered her a lift from the vicinity of her office. A complaint was lodged with the Dwarka Sector 23 Police the next morning but the police did not act. As the police did not act swiftly and timely, the arrest of the culprits was almost impossible.
I am a royally confused person right now. All my identification papers say I am an Indian but I am not too sure whether I am indeed an Indian national. It starts with the fact that I have facial features that are “un-Indian” and that my origins are from a region that people in the rest of the country are more likely to locate somewhere in the Orient.
Meghalaya militancy is an expression of those youth against the ineffectiveness and unfair deals of the government towards the people of the state, the youth who feel alienated from the Union Government in New Delhi and also from their very own leaders who run the affairs of the state government. For the last three decades or so these youth had given vent to their feelings and created an awareness in the people’s mind in the observance of bandhs on national holidays such as Independence Day and Republic Day.
It seems that the Gorkhaland issue will not be solved very soon, even after the announcement of Mamata Banerjee that she solved the issue in 100 days after coming to power. During the time the iron lady was lauded by all quarters for her sincere effort to fulfill the century old demand. 
The Khasi community of nearly one million is but a microscopic dot against the one billion population of the Indian nation. Tucked away in northeastern India, in the geographical elevation of plain land adjacent to Bangladesh and gradually rising to the height of 1964 metres, the highest point being the Shillong peak, from which the name of the Shillong God is derived ‘U Blei Shyllong’, is the homeland of the Khasis, also known as the Hynniewtrep people
Assam’s pride, 18 year old boxer, Shiva Thapa created history by qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics through his entry into the final of the 56 kg category of the Asian Olympic qualifying event. He has become the youngest Indian boxer to secure an Olympic berth.Born in 1993, Shiva Thapa is the fourth sports person from Assam who has qualified for the Olympics. Prior to him, Dr T Ao, Dipankar Bhattacharya and Jayanta Talukdar had qualified for the Olympics.
