There is Some Kala in The Bharat Dal: Manipur Paying the Price

By – Amar Yumnam
Daal mein kuchh kala hai; there is something doubtful in the lentils. This is a very popular phrase in the Bharat – not in the South East Asian part of India – conveying the feeling of something to be suspicious about. While a demographically large and diverse country made out of historical closeness and mergers with other countries after the termination of the British colonial rule following the end of World War II and soon reaching the score of a century, it is expected that this sensation of something kala in the Bharat daal should have gone for good from this supposedly democratically-federal country. But in contrast, what we experience rather is the impression of the kala getting fattier, and particularly so in the South East Asian part.
I would like to share my own reasons as to why the sense of the kala getting larger is present in the region. Let me start with a little self-introduction of myself. First, I have at least passed the Matriculation. Second, our Lainingthou-Lairembi have been kind enough to not only enable me to visit not just for a few days but stay for months and a year in the Universities and research institutes located in Paris, Moscow and Los Angeles as separate experiences. Third, the Gods have also seen to it that I visit South East and East Asia institutes quite more than once. Fourth, whatever I am trying to put forth is based on the experiences and understanding I gained from these little exposures and a little learning done by myself. Fifth, I am also a little aware of the big transformations taking place today in the most unexpected continent of Africa. Sixth, right from 1977 till now my engagements have been invariably academic unlike, e.g., the main engagements in clerical type of activities of the present head of the DM University.
Now how do I feel suspicious of the continuous presence of the kala and which seems gaining fat faster in recent years? Before I proceed further, my feelings are based on reasons possessing rationalities of their own. I. My first suspicion relates (I frequently mention of this) to the empowerment of the armed forces meant to defend the country- as expected as anywhere else but quite unlike any other meaningfully democratic country elsewhere in the world – to kill anyone from the region without any kind of accountability; this applies only to this region. This unique application is soon hitting a century in years soon enough while in any other movingly democratic nation it would hardly hit 365 days. II. Recently I have heard of something called SOO. Since I have never heard, read and experienced anything like this, my all endeavours to find a rationale for this have borne no fruit. But the terms and clauses of the SOO have already had the crowding-out effect; crowd-out effect is a term used by the Economists when an event pushes other activities out such that Negative Events/Goods/People would replace Positive Functioning/Goods/people through the characteristics of the processes in place. III. I recently saw a video of a Member of the Indian Parliament being disallowed to cross a line within the same country and was stopped from stepping ahead by the Armed Forces because the line represents the presence of a zone – I am not mentioning the name of the zone for I have never heard of such kind of a zone prevailing within a country following democratic federalism. IV. The world knows for sure that Manipur has been suffering an unprecedented kind of a crisis for almost three years, but the Head of the People (I repeat the Head of the People) of India does not have time to apply mind and put his powers of governance to affect a solution to the problem. All these happenings have definitely had the crowding-out effect in Manipur, but it seems spreading slowly across Bharat as the kala cannot be given full freedom to cover the country.
In the disciplines studying society, two recent dominating thoughts relate to Institutions and Geography. Institutions relate to the traditions, norms and culture a society follows. Geography relates to understanding of space by incorporating the accompanying characteristics of quality and quantity. Since appreciating these institutions and geography involves time and application of mind, Bharat Sarkar does not like to afford these. The continued presence of the feeling of presence of kala is convenient for them to subdue the South East Asian part of India.   Even the Sixteenth Finance Commission went along.