{"id":8955,"date":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/c5b454f7632ce7c8cc1dc4bc0a71fab8"},"modified":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"15-august-2008-northeast-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/1999\/11\/29\/15-august-2008-northeast-india\/","title":{"rendered":"15 August 2008, Northeast India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By Robin S Ngangom<\/p>\n<p>Having lost it<br \/> How could I celebrate my independence<br \/> Though I&rsquo;ve sewn flags on cockeyed schooldays?<br \/> Margins are superfluous in the big centre&rsquo;s book<br \/> Although memory is not silent and speaks up at times.<\/p>\n<p>Now the periphery (of which I&rsquo;m also a guilty part)<br \/> Is scrawling a unique history on delusive margins,<br \/> Mischievous like a collage by brawling painters.<br \/> Once lebensraum has sunk to pogroms<br \/> The periphery can murder too<br \/> And then deal peace cards on the table<br \/> Or hoist a nation&rsquo;s flag in driving rain.<br \/> On the continuum of farce<br \/> It doesn&rsquo;t matter if we&rsquo;re moving forward or backward<br \/> Or if a government is serving rats on its menu.<br \/> The morning passes with a prime minister orating<br \/> From the ramparts of a fort,<br \/> &ldquo;Make the borders irrelevant,&rdquo; he said a year ago.<br \/> It never occurred to him to disguise himself and ask<br \/> The man on the street about his unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p>On the road outside shut down by insurgents<br \/> Aimless now in its bafflement<br \/> Trees and lamps are breathing fog and a light rain.<br \/> This day passes between surfing for news of theoutside world,<br \/> Statistics of farmers committing suicide on the weaverbelt<br \/> And the poor waiting for paper to translate into bread<br \/> After discovering that a law has been enacted for them<br \/> Which finds all of them culpable for shaming thenation.<br \/> And fifty years of discrimination festering in theperiphery<br \/> With another anniversary of murder and disappearances.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been told that I live on the edge<br \/> By intellectuals who also teach me<br \/> The history and politics of far away countries.<br \/> I have to take their word on faith, being so unread.<br \/> I don&rsquo;t know if I&rsquo;m shallow with little inner life.<\/p>\n<p>I try not to book a flat in the city of the sky<br \/> But meditate brokenly on love and its players<br \/> Although it gave me a terrible fright the other day.<br \/> I merely silenced her shame with my mouth<br \/> And remain a freeloader of passion from its web.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/qw9YOZKDNgc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/qw9YOZKDNgc\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/qw9YOZKDNgc\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robin S Ngangom Having lost it How could I celebrate my independence Though I&#8217;ve sewn flags on cockeyed schooldays? 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