Manipur and the democracy of the “others”

With the election and the political intrigue of government formation over, for most individuals in Manipur, it is back to the everyday grind of their “normal” lives—a normality defined by inefficient governance, corruption, ethnic divides and its concomitant politics of the “others”, diktats of armed groups, martial powers of the police and armed forces, infrastructural deficiencies, etc, to name a few.

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With the election and the political intrigue of government formation over, for most individuals in Manipur, it is back to the everyday grind of their “normal” lives—a normality defined by inefficient governance, corruption, ethnic divides and its concomitant politics of the “others”, diktats of armed groups, martial powers of the police and armed forces, infrastructural deficiencies, etc, to name a few.

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