Manipur, March 23 -- While Union Home Minister Amit Shah keeps on 'monitoring' the Manipur situation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to ignore it totally. Maybe the Home Ministry mandarins are hard at work trying to work out a solution or waiting for the unrest to die out with time. So many lives have been lost, hundreds are maimed and injured, several people young and old are missing and thousands continue to languish in relief camps and makeshift homes.

A collective trauma haunts both the displaced and people at large which the so called leaders continue to engage in rhetoric of mutual hatred. There has been no respite ever since the clashes broke out. In the valley, the Meiteis had to forego its biggest festival 'Ningol Chakko...