She said they love the blue mountains but not the people.
The bullet-ridden windscreen is a metaphor for justice in a confict zone
She said they love the blue mountains but not the people.
Perhaps that’s how they have begun to see it now. Or maybe the alienation has been there for too long for them to know that the ‘othering’ is part of politics. But Yingpe, who is a tribal princess and thereby commands respect in her community, is angry. She said she had put in her resignation in Kohima since she now wants to be here.
“We are the others,” she said.
—Notes from Mon in December 2021
We look at the three states—Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya— going to the polls this month, and the question of identity.