Terrain of complex issues

Intro Intro:  Modi's campaign speech in Assam displayed ignorance about ground realities. Publication:  DNA Column:  Faultlines DNA link:  Read this on the DNA site

Politicians from mainland India, bogged down by their own mainstream and patronising narrative of what development or nationalism ought to mean, hardly ever get the ground situation right as far as the Northeast is concerned. All the more so with Assam, an anthropologists dream-come...