r/Northeastindians

Norok hai mwswg bwslwi rok noh ang kaisa kok hinna na ni mwchwng jak goh. Norok bwi ni tongmwng-kangmwng

swrwngwi kokborok rwngya titi wansa rok ni lwi kusubwi wansa rok ni kok tei kangmwng swrwng mani belai khai lachima singsha hindu dhormo , christian dhormo hinwi tong layo norok , hai noh hai waisa phamo norok wanswk ya kho wngnai sini original culture tamo? Norok bas arak nwng gwi phek na ni mang , shipak bai lwi tamo tamo khawi cherai rok noh bah na ni omo uswk jora noh waisa phamo wanswk ya kho wng nai bahai kai cherai rok no borok kha na ni bahai kai borok ni tong mung kang mwng maintain khai na ni nang nwng ya borok rok. Sini culture bwi ni culture ni simi 2000-3000 year ni age gap tong na tangwi hwngkha sini culture swng develop khlai liya bwi ni tong kangmwng swrwngwi tong kha. Tabuk lei norok hai noh hai durga puja , christmas phai kai tongthok lai tei phamo sini hangrai tei bo bwrwng sah cultural day rok twi wi tongthok lai ya. Norok hai noh hai bwi ni lwi kusubwi thi langkai chawo. Shipak.

If China followed the chatur-varna model, this is what it would be. On top sits the Kshatriya, the king and his army. Below him, the scholar-bureaucrat, the Brahmin equivalent. Below that, the Shudra, the farmer and the artisan. At the very bottom sits the merchant, the Baniya, distrusted, watched, kept on a leash. In the Chinese order, the man who makes money never gets to rule the man who makes war.

Brahmins placed Vaishya above Shudra. And now place them above Kshatriya. Effectively, In reality, today, the Satvik Baniya is on top and this new model is called Sanatana Dharma. Ram and Krishna are offered Baniya food in temples - not Kshatriya or Shudra food.

What has happened as a result? For every rupee an Indian earns, a Chinese citizen earns five. Five times richer, and the gap opened only in two generations. That is not a story about population or resources. That is a story about who sits on top of whom.

In China, the Kshatriya controls the Baniya. In America, the Baniya controls the Kshatriya. Wall Street writes the cheques, the Pentagon salutes. Brahmins, desperate as always to be seen dancing with the winner, chose the American model and called it ancient wisdom. The Baniya now funds the temple, the charitable trust, the publishing house, the television channel. Whoever funds, rules. This is not new economics. It is old Arthashastra, except now Kautilya's merchant has eaten the king.

The Kshatriya, meanwhile, has not just lost the throne. He has lost the address. Rajputs today are not warriors. The community that once bled at Haldighati now waits for a Brahmin priest to tell it which day is auspicious for a business inauguration. Our politicians complete the picture. They are Kshatriya only in the certificate sense. Follow the money and you find where they actually kneel. Every election is a pilgrimage to whichever Baniya lobby is best funded that season.

Remember what happened when Trump visited China. He was shown trees older than the republic he governs, gardens that had outlasted six dynasties, and he came back visibly smaller. When he visited India, we danced for him. That is the difference between a country ruled by engineers and a country ruled by intermediaries.

Because China is ruled by engineers, not by shopkeepers with a purity complex. The Chinese eat beef, pork, whatever moves, and carry no fear that Lakshmi will leave the house for it. That fear belongs entirely to us, manufactured, marketed, and monetised by the same lobby that now funds our temples. China marches into the Northeast and quietly sits on parts of Kashmir, and an Indian prime minister who cannot say a word about it, because everyone in the room knows exactly who is more powerful, and everyone knows why.

Just yesterday, commentators were warning that FCRA reform would 'teach me a lesson'. Then the Americans got annoyed and the bill quietly went back into the drawer. Because America is Christian first and democratic second, and it will not tolerate any real challenge to its evangelical footprint here. Every Sanatani warrior currently online, ready to go to war with the missionary, should check his visa status before he checks his sword. The dollar remains the final deity. Count how many Sanatanis actually live in New York before you count how many post from India. That tells you who is actually afraid of whom.

So here is the full inheritance. Ahimsa gave us a fear of meat. Sattvikism gave the fear a philosophy. The Baniya gave the philosophy a business model. And the Kshatriya, once the man with the sword, signed the whole contract without reading it, because the caterer for the signing ceremony was, of course, also a Baniya.

The Vedic mind believed in war when war was necessary and food when food was food. What replaced it was not dharma. It was a supply chain with a temple bell attached.

Serious thoughts and please engage seriously without name calling.

2 days back the Arunachal government scrapped the currently existing 80:20 (Reserved APSTs : unreserved) framework in state jobs. The new proposed model is that 100 % APST (locals) on top of that fluency in one indigenous language. I think we all should appreciate these reforms that safeguards local interests

. These reforms specially came when civil society saw that in the 20% unreserved quota many outsiders mostly from Bihar, Bengal and other mainland states were appearing and getting those positions. Scrapping the 80:20 ratio for the local interests is a good move.

But there is a fundamental problem as a group of genuine indigenous populations of AP are cut out of their aspirations and jobs or education in the state and are now at their own mercy without any legal safety net. Let me categorically explain.

Colonial and Post colonial cartography error has become a big problem for many indigenous communities in assertion of their rights and aspirations. Because of hastily drawn lines without historical accuracy and attentiveness to local socio cultural and geographical details.

I explain this with the example of 5 indigenous tribal Tibeto Burmese groups of people, whose future remains bleak now with and are further pushed to extreme marginalisation.

The Deoris, Sonowal Kacharis, Mising, Morans and the Karbis. All are indigenous to NE and Assam and Arunachal (in the Namsai, Changlang and Papum Pare districts). They are close to the borders of Assam and AP. They have been living in these places much much before the modern territories are drawn and often face discrimination by the Arunachal population and the systemic discrimination by the state as well. They are not considered STs in AP, but their Assam counterparts are protected under STs. They are not given permanent residence which are categorised under (APST). They are often discriminated against by othering and name calling of slurs like "outsiders" and "harings".

Now imagine, where will these people go?? leaving their villages and their farm lands and their dreams of residing in their state? They were already marginalized, and were competing in the already small percentage of unreserved seats. Now with scrapping of that too, where will these people go for education or jobs.

They are not from Assam also, they do have kinship relationship with same communities of Assam. But how will it provide them legal protection. They reside and vote in AP and are citizens of AP.

The counter argument of Arunachali people are mostly on the lines that, they will outnumber them? But in reality these ethnic groups are almost similar or may be a few thousands more or less, which in the real sense we all know how much small indigenous NE tribes are. The Arunachalis say they will take dual benefits, I mean they don't. They do not vote in Assam and they do not claim they are from Assam. They are just the same community. Take example: Lepchas are there in Sikkim and Darjeeling also. Both overall belong to the same Himalayan geography, but now under different administrative states because of "cartography lines". Nishis tribe are there in both Assam and Arunachal. Singphos and Khamtis are present in both Arunachal and Assam and Myanmar. They have kinship ties but are separated by administrative arrangements. Infact the Khamptis and Singphos are given STs in Assam also. And the local tribals of Assam do not protest that despite them arriving in these landscapes only some 400 years ago. The Lishu Yobin people have arrived only around 70 years back near Arunachal and Myanmar border, but they are considered ST but the real indigenous people? No.

My analysis: I do definitely agree with the scrapping of 80:20 quota of AP which was benefiting the mainland people. But now the 20% should actually be given to these marginalized tribes in Arunachal Pradesh where they are not given ST, not given PRC despite indigenous. The 100 % APST just pushes them to further marginalisation. Because despite living there they are not given APST status, at least allow provision to accommodate them in the unreserved category.

I am from Assam, and I cannot see my tribe people suffering from systemic discrimination in our homeland because of cartography fault lines, and in the same region of NE where we actually want a pan tribal Unity.

I would only engage with serious comments and feedback.