Disaffected, Confused; Nagas are desperate to believe someone, and rally behind a Genuine cause :::: Far off in Spain we hear - “The rule of law, the democratic system and even the market economy are in doubt” !!

Numbed, Nagas are desperate to believe someone, and rally behind a Genuine cause for Common good. 

The Nagas are at crossroads. The leaders have not able to strike a Peace deal and the common people continue to pay heavy amount in the form of extortion. 

However, this 'failed' phenomenon has been the system or even the governance and political model. These allowed politicians, institutions, pressure groups and intellectuals to reap benefits from what can be called the longstanding inequalities.

They also could avoid confronting a more uncomfortable truth: the decline of Governance. 

Some of these stories are mired in nostalgia.

While the creation of FNTA reflects the admission of guilt or gross failures of the system in Kohima to deliver welfarism; it is a fact the Netas and serving and retired government officials have palatial houses in Dimapur. So there was two-way betrayals. 

First - discrimination and secondly, when the funds were allotted, they were possibly siphoned off and diverted for 'developments' and individual benefits in the cosmopolitan hub, Dimapur. 

GoC Spearcorps - Lt Gen Abhijit S Pendharkar at an ex-serviceman rally in Assam

Nagas of Nagaland are also 'genuine victims' of Illusions. Most of it remained locked in the past. 

The students of Philosophy known illusion is liked/embraced not because it reflects reality. On the contrary, Illusion can only satisfy a psychological need. This was actually a political ploy and nobody seemed to have understood.  

Nagas now must realise that the next war or period of struggles especially within the state of Nagaland will be infinitely worse and more complex than the last. 

This a period characterized by mutual suspicion, crises of leadership in all spheres - social, political and intellectual. This is a period of widespread despair and corruption. 

There is social isolation, the menace called Extortion and this has followed the evils of Easy Money craze and there are saboteurs of anything good. Challenges have increased manifold in the process. 

The society is almost reached a stage when we may question why and how does the Naga political discourse remain fixated on a catastrophe that always seems imminent.

Can the ceasefire be abrogated ?  

This is only one part of the problem in north east of India.  

There are other problem areas.

These may not be confined to north east India alone; but these are serious challenges. 

The 'oft-mishandled' consequences of 20th-century recklessness in some countries including post-1947 India are now erupting.

Take the Kuki-Naga clashes. Take demands for Greater Nagalim or a greater Zoland cutting across parts of northeast and also emcompassing Myanmar. 

What we have in hand is  --  Nations cracking into fragments and forcing populations into post-national solidarities.

There are roving tribal militias, ethnic and religious sub-states and super-states.  

Of course, we have problems in countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

The fact of the matter is similar varieties of populism and problems too are erupting in many countries. 

People and critics especially may find parallels in style and substance between leaders such as Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Tayyip Erdoğan. 

There is a sense that something is wrong in the air.  But there is no coincidence either.  

Namo - often compared with Xi or Trump ... why ?? 

Should people try to analyse the relationship between various upheavals? 

How is Family life of those in mid-fifties today different from the family life of their parents?

We tend to regard all these as entirely separate from politics and the society around us. That is a mistake. 

Everywhere, Gen Z has become unpredictable.

The tendency is to blame our history, our populist-leaders, our media, and other institutions. None is looking inside.

As many would say -- people may buy the same products in every country of the world.  People might have developed liking of same Pizza and so on.

People may all use the same AI tool, Google and Facebook, but political life and political aspiration has remained 'nomadic and guided by tribal and community instinct'. 

Hence, Hindutva is Modi's trump car and India-bashing still is easy methodology to garner votes in north east India. 

Manipur Governor Ajay Bhalla - No mega move towards resolving issues yet ?

Politics and political structure keep the antique faith of borders. 

The resultant is somewhere we get to hear -- far off in Spain “The rule of law, the democratic system and even the market economy are in doubt”.

The collapse of the establishment is a phenomeon the new world will have to deal with.  

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