By T.J.S. George
Imagine all South Indian States uniting on a platform of ethnic difference from the North, as C.N. Annadurai briefly contemplated once upon a time. Something similar is happening in the North-East. Ethnically, culturally and historically, the North-Eastern States have been different from the rest of India. North-Easterners often talked about going to the "mainland" when they meant going to India. The mainlanders for their part often referred to North-Easterners in terms and tones of racial superiority.
