Manipur, July 16 -- More than ever before, it should be clear to every peacemaker watching the developments in Manipur that no solution to the complex problem facing the state can be solved in isolation. This is because none of these issues exists in a vacuum. Further up the road, in the pre-State era, perhaps communities did manage to live in isolation as "village republics" strictly insulating themselves from outside contacts or commerce and going to war with anybody who transgresses this exclusionist principle. This principle can no longer hold in today's complex social structure. What one individual does or what one community does, must necessarily have a profound bearing on the others sharing the same, larger "living space" and securit...