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What explains Kuki separatists’ sudden and unprecedented love for India? Pretense. As part of their do-whatever-pays-no-matter-how-low-you-stoop modus operandi, they have repeatedly tried to brazenly insinuate themselves into India’s (that is, the union government’s) favor, though of course in vain, saying in so many words and so many ways that they worship India, which has necessitated them hollow-heartedly doing several ostentatious acts of feigned love. These deceitful pro-separatists disrespect the very idea of India in the very quarters they are given shelter. India is a political (that is, legal) nation, not an ethnic one and its international territorial boundary is politically (that is, legally) fixed and does not contract and expand with the settlement and movements of any of its ethnic populations the way territorial boundaries used to in pre-legal state times. Do they respect the idea of India as a political nation, or specifically, the legal, political territorial boundary of India? They regard the physical end of their ethnic settlements as their political boundary (see the “buffer-zone” line that marks the margins of Kuki settlements in Manipur) while they openly disrespect and want to erase India’s international boundary line where there is a Kuki ethnic flow between India and Myanmar, dreaming of a Kuki nation state whose political and legal international boundary in what is now Myanmar would be determined by the physical ends of the Kuki settlements in Myanmar, making ethnicity coincide with the legal. They play legal where being legal is advantageous and play ethnic where ethnicity is advantageous. What is this Kuki separatist idea of India with part of its map and a stretch of its boundary line erased? How honest are they in their ostentatious celebrations of the Independence Day and the Republic Day? As for the Meiteis, they are not ideologically and politically a homogenous group, which is a sign of the Meitei’s health as a people. Heterogeneity leads to diverse rightful aspirations, but their having to walk down the path of civilization as one people (which they are) leads to many of these aspirations contending against one another to determine how they, as one people, set their order and organize their affairs. This explains why some section of the Meitei society wants to claim the pre-merger status and begin their civilizational walk from that point, while the others have different aspirations. As noted above, since the Meiteis, along with the other communities coexisting in the state, have to live as a people, they have to go about their affairs in a democratic way, negotiating among themselves on what to do, and this is exactly what they have been doing despite the differences, which necessarily entails the sacrifice of certain sections’ aspirations for the common good. Manipur is still undergoing this evolution. By contrast, Kuki separatism is a selfish maneuver away from this Meitei “spirit of living as one people with other communities.” This contrast is too tearingly sharp to miss. The Kuki separatist red herring “no separation from India” is not the matter. The matter is SEPARATION OR NO SEPARATION FROM MANIPUR, and the idea of a piece of land torn away from Manipur for the Kukis is just, noble, logical, ethical, and legal on no whatsoever counts at least for the obvious reasons we all know now. The matter at issue is not India’s integrity with regard to Kuki separatism. The problem is of Manipur’s integrity that Kuki separatism is hell-bent on shattering. You should know where to look to see something you are looking for. The planet Earth remaining a whole and not splitting up into two or more planets does not reflect local tectonic disturbances seen all over the globe. The deceitful statement “Kukis don’t seek separation from India” is meant to beguile us from where we should look.

monicaetc_'s tweet photo. What explains Kuki separatists’ sudden and unprecedented love for India?

Pretense.

As part of their do-whatever-pays-no-matter-how-low-you-stoop modus operandi, they have repeatedly tried to brazenly insinuate themselves into India’s (that is, the union government’s) favor, though of course in vain, saying in so many words and so many ways that they worship India, which has necessitated them hollow-heartedly doing several ostentatious acts of feigned love. These deceitful pro-separatists disrespect the very idea of India in the very quarters they are given shelter.

India is a political (that is, legal) nation, not an ethnic one and its international territorial boundary is politically (that is, legally) fixed and does not contract and expand with the settlement and movements of any of its ethnic populations the way territorial boundaries used to in pre-legal state times. Do they respect the idea of India as a political nation, or specifically, the legal, political territorial boundary of India? They regard the physical end of their ethnic settlements as their political boundary (see the “buffer-zone” line that marks the margins of Kuki settlements in Manipur) while they openly disrespect and want to erase India’s international boundary line where there is a Kuki ethnic flow between India and Myanmar, dreaming of a Kuki nation state whose political and legal international boundary in what is now Myanmar would be determined by the physical ends of the Kuki settlements in Myanmar, making ethnicity coincide with the legal. They play legal where being legal is advantageous and play ethnic where ethnicity is advantageous. What is this Kuki separatist idea of India with part of its map and a stretch of its boundary line erased? How honest are they in their ostentatious celebrations of the Independence Day and the Republic Day?

As for the Meiteis, they are not ideologically and politically a homogenous group, which is a sign of the Meitei’s health as a people. Heterogeneity leads to diverse rightful aspirations, but their having to walk down the path of civilization as one people (which they are) leads to many of these aspirations contending against one another to determine how they, as one people, set their order and organize their affairs. This explains why some section of the Meitei society wants to claim the pre-merger status and begin their civilizational walk from that point, while the others have different aspirations. As noted above, since the Meiteis, along with the other communities coexisting in the state, have to live as a people, they have to go about their affairs in a democratic way, negotiating among themselves on what to do, and this is exactly what they have been doing despite the differences, which necessarily entails the sacrifice of certain sections’ aspirations for the common good. Manipur is still undergoing this evolution.

By contrast, Kuki separatism is a selfish maneuver away from this Meitei “spirit of living as one people with other communities.” This contrast is too tearingly sharp to miss. The Kuki separatist red herring “no separation from India” is not the matter. The matter is SEPARATION OR NO SEPARATION FROM MANIPUR, and the idea of a piece of land torn away from Manipur for the Kukis is just, noble, logical, ethical, and legal on no whatsoever counts at least for the obvious reasons we all know now. The matter at issue is not India’s integrity with regard to Kuki separatism. The problem is of Manipur’s integrity that Kuki separatism is hell-bent on shattering. You should know where to look to see something you are looking for. The planet Earth remaining a whole and not splitting up into two or more planets does not reflect local tectonic disturbances seen all over the globe. The deceitful statement “Kukis don’t seek separation from India” is meant to beguile us from where we should look.

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