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Dialogue Quarterly DIALOGUE QUARTERLY Volume-22 No. 2 October-December, 2020 Subscription Rates : For Individuals (in India) Single issue Rs. 30.00 Annual Rs. 100.00 For 3 years Rs. 250.00 For Institutions: Single Issue Rs. 60.00 in India, Abroad US $ 15 Annual Rs. 200.00 in India, Abroad US $ 50 For 3 years Rs. 500.00 in India, Abroad US $ 125 All cheques and Bank Drafts (Account Payee) are to be made in the name of “ASTHA BHARATI”, Delhi. Advertisement Rates : Outside back-cover Rs. 25, 000.00 Per issue Inside Covers Rs. 20, 000.00 ,, Inner page coloured Rs. 15, 000.00 ,, Inner full page Rs. 10, 000.00 ,, DIALOGUE QUARTERLY Editor J.N. Roy Associate Editor Pranav Kumar ASTHA BHARATI DELHI The views expressed by the contributors do not necessarily represent the view-point of the journal. © Astha Bharati, New Delhi Printed and Published by Dr. Lata Singh, IAS (Retd.) Secretary, Astha Bharati Registered Office: 27/201 East End Apartments, Mayur Vihar, Phase-I Extension, Delhi-110096. Working Office: 19/804 East End Apartments, Mayur Vihar, Phase-I Extension, Delhi-110096. Phone : 91-11-22712454 e-mail : [email protected] web-site : www. asthabharati.org Printed at : Vikas Computer & Printers, Naveen Shahdara, Delhi-32 4 DIALOGUE, Volume-22 No. 2 Contents Editorial Perspective 7 Dr. Jayanta Madhab India needs to reorient its Covid strategy but lockdown isn’t the answer CAA and Assam Elections 1. North-East Scan Meghalaya 2020- Did we learn anything at all? 11 Patricia Mukhim Myanmar’s Political Instability and Northeast India’s Prospect of Getting Land-linked 14 M P Bezbaruah and Amiya Sarma World Must Help Myanmar Because Myanmar Needs Help, and Not Respond to Myanmar as a Response to China 18 Pradip Phanjoubam 2. Jayanta Madhab – An Obituary 23 3. The Politics of Perception and the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 25 Malini Bhattacharjee 4. The Roadmap for CAA 33 Subimal Bhattacharjee 5. Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019: Redeeming the Promise of Partition in Assam 40 Binayak Dutta 6. Anti-CAA Agitation and the Assembly Election of Assam, 2021 48 Jamini Buragohain DIALOGUE, Volume-22 No. 2 5 7. MSP, Agricultural Reforms and the Farm Bills 56 M.P. Bezbaruah and Faridus Mamun Khan 8. Revisiting Dharampal’s Bharateeya Chitta, Manas and Kala 65 Harshal Bhadkamkar, Bhushan Damle and Makarand Mulye 9. Area Studies and International Relations: Linked or Delinked 75 P.L. Dash 10. Tea Plantation Workers’ Participation as a Political Community in Assam 82 Priyanka Neog 11. Myths and Culture-History of Arunachal Pradesh: Studying Etic-Emic Paradigm 90 Prasanta Kumar Nayak 12. Upanishads as Catalyst of Indic Studies Across the Globe 100 Shruti Kant Pandey 13. Indo-Uzbek Ties Along ‘Great Indian Road’ 109 Sunita Dwivedi 14. Coverage of Rape Cases in Media with Special Reference to ‘Nirbhaya’ Gangrape 119 Afaq Ahmad and Seema Shukla 15. Communidades of Goa: A Re-reading of Select Goan Literature in the Light of Land Laws and Their Effect on Human-Land Equation 129 Smita Sail and M.G. Priya 16. Indian Diaspora as a Soft Power Apparatus: Establishing the Diaspora Identity and its Influence in the Indo-US Bilateral Relations 145 Kamni Kumari and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta 17. Book Review Revisiting the Political Thought of Ancient India: Pre-Kautilyan Arthashastra Tradition 157 Shiladitya Chakraborty 6 DIALOGUE, Volume-22 No. 2 Editorial Perspective Dr. Jayanta Madhab Dr. Jayanta Madhab was President of Astha Bharati from March 2002 till his death in October 2020. An outstanding economist dedicated to the economic development, of the northeast. He was a human being par excellence and gentlemen to the core. One barely comes across a person with no prejudices and biases. Always smiling and a patient listener he was pillar of strength to us in Astha Bharati. For several years he wanted to be relieved of the Presidentship of Astha Bharati, but we always successfully persuaded him to continue. Whenever in Delhi, he would insist on visiting our office and attend all the meetings and guide us. Astha Bharati owes a lot to him and we shall cherish his memory and try to live upto his expectations. We all in Astha Bharati feel blessed to have been associated with him. May his soul rest in peace. We are publishing an obituary written by his friend and colleague Shri Barin Ganguli. India needs to reorient its Covid strategy but lockdown isn’t the answer At a time when things were easing out and the country was coming back to a new normal, Covid-19 made a backdoor entry—and with a greater potency, vibrancy and threat. India now finds itself in the middle of a second wave of coronavirus, with the number of new cases rising exponentially, especially in Maharashtra. The next four weeks, as per the Centre’s cautionary advice, are “very, very critical”. So, how will the government deal with the pandemic, which has wreaked havoc on India’s economy after authorities went in for a stringent nationwide two months lockdown in March 2020? Will it go for another round of lockdown? Will it see the spectre of painful migrations from metros and cities? The biggest question, however, is: Can India afford another lockdown? DIALOGUE, Volume-22 No. 2 7 As the country stares at these questions, especially the last one, reports of restrictions are already coming in, including weekend lockdowns being imposed in Maharashtra. Several states have gone for night curfews (One wonders how night curfew shall curtail Covid cases when day norms are flouted). But given the experience of havoc wrought by lockdown last year, the government should desist from treading that perilous path again. India is yet to recover from the body blow that its economy received last year. Lives and livelihoods were badly disrupted, and continue to be so in several sectors, especially travel, tourism and hospitality. Any attempt to unleash lockdown just when the economy is showing some signs of recovery would be disastrous. What we need to understand is that the deadly virus will make several comebacks, and in the guise of multiple variants. We need to learn to live with it, at least for a few years. This means masks, social distancing and proper sanitisation will have to be an integral part of our day-to-day lives. The very reason why the virus has made a deadly comeback today is because we, of late, especially after the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines, went back to our old lifestyles. We stopped following Covid protocols, maybe out of undue vaccine assurances or due to virus fatigue, and in no time the country saw a massive spike in coronavirus cases, striking over a lakh cases on a daily basis. The authorities must realise that blanket lockdown, which may seem an easy way out, is not the answer; it will be a recipe for disaster of unprecedented proportions. What the country needs today, instead, is for us to pursue Covid protocols seriously. Masking up and maintaining social distancing norms have to be followed rigorously. Here we need to desist any temptation of overdoing it. For instance, the Delhi government’s decision to challan a single person driving a car without a mask. How will a single person driving his own car spread the virus? Ironically, this order has come at a time when thousands of people are attending election rallies in several states without any masks or an iota of social distancing? Interestingly, however, the country is witnessing Covid surge in states, with the exception of Tamil Nadu, that have no electoral activities of late. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh account for over 80% of the cases. Of these, Maharashtra alone has almost 60% of India’s total Covid-19 cases. This is a riddle which confounds many, and no clear- cut answers are available yet. Maybe the states with mobile populations 8 DIALOGUE, Volume-22 No. 2 are the victims. Given that a number of Bollywood actors and other high-profile celebrities have been the victim of the virus this time, one may assume Mumbai’s high-flying nightlife has contributed to the surge. A final word on the spread, however, is not out; it remains a mystery, just like the virus itself, which is changing its nature and character very rapidly. Amid all this comes the accusations from the Maharashtra Health Minister claiming vaccine scarcity in the state, and accusing the Centre of not doing enough for the state—a charge contested by none other than Maharashtra strongman and NCP leader Sharad Pawar who claimed that the Centre is doing what it could to help the state. This is the time our leaders must desist from indulging in a political slugfest. If the pandemic is to be defeated, it can be done only when the Union and the state respect the spirit of federalism as defined in the Constitution of India. Be that as it may, the fact remains that India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has so far done well to handle the Covid-19 pandemic. Critics, before jumping into an obituary-writing mode, must understand the challenges of the gigantic proportions facing the Modi government on this front. On January 16, 2021, India, with a population of 1.38 billion people, kickstarted the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive. The plan has been to inoculate 300 million “priority population” by July- August 2021. Inoculating 300 million people within 6-7 months is akin to vaccinating almost the whole of the US or equal to vaccinating the combined populations of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and France.
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