Bias against news from the North-East

For three days running, lakhs of people in Guwahati stood in serpentine queues to pay their last respects to the legendary singer, Bhupen Hazarika. Around half a million bid him a tearful farewell on Wednesday. Assam-watchers say this was an unprecedented event. However, the singer's fans and ordinary readers in North India, who depend on ‘national' dailies for news from across the country, had to draw comfort from either a photograph or a news item tucked away somewhere in pages 16, 12 or 11.

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