You said undue influence in media and mainstream. Yes, they had undue influence in media but still the blockade kept going on and on.
Now, if gujjars or jats block the roads around Delhi, everyone takes notice and swift action is taken. Why was this of no concern for the media or popular outrage. Just because it is far away land and no one cares about.
Tarun Vijay is such a public figure!! Oh, he raised it in RS!! But the end result? Cipher!
I did not say they are cuter than anyone else but that does not change the fact they are the least understood. Atleast they are better than people from Hindi heartland filled with deep seated casteism.
Well said.
Frankly speaking, having interacted with people from all corners of the nation, it is more likely that I will find a North-Easterner likeable, than an arrogant shithead from "Hindi heartland" with their inherent racism and casteism. In
most cases, the typical "Hindi heartlander" is full of casteist shit in his head, and those people are bigger enemies of Indian society and the nation, than a harmless North Easterner working in some spa or hotel. You will constantly hear casteist shit like "bhangi", "chamaar", "maadar jaat" from the aforementioned shitheads. Not to mention, stereotypical nonsense like "madrasi", "chi.nki', etc.
The fact of the matter is that whatever
@Pratap says about NE people being less attached to India, the reverse is also equally true. Riots in muzaffarnagar are constantly discussed on TV, and riots in Gujarat are wrung dry for years. But riots in Assam? Then, Rajdeep Sardesai's famous "tyranny of distance" theory comes into play, and largely ignored. And this is in Assam. Riots and disturbances in the more far-flung areas of North East do not even register as a speck in the national consciousness.
With attitudes like this, we actually expect them to feel a great oneness with us?
The need of the hour is to integrate that area with the nation economically. The chicken's neck problem needs to be solved, some potential solutions have been discussed on DFI in the past. That region desperately needs a city of the scale of Bangalore or Hyderabad. That is the only way that region will come into the mainstream and all this shit can end.