Anil Dhir

The root cause of all problems in Manipur is both political and ethnic. The three dominant communities—Kuki, Naga and Meitei—who were never under a single administrative unit have been forced together either by default or by design.

The situation in India’s North-eastern States is the worst, and the Reangs are perhaps the most neglected in this class. More then 40,000 of this original people have been languishing in inhospitable hillside camps since 1997. Their lives are full of uncertainties.