Assam violence, Bangladeshis, and multiple states of denial

The national-level panic created among north-easterners living in various metros and big towns of India and the renewed flare-up of violence in Assam has had one positive fallout: we all now know that the north-east exists (we can now find those teeny-weeny states on the map); and we have learnt to acknowledge that they are Indians like any of us (they are not Chinese, despite the shapes of their eyes or facial features).

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