Manipur has
vanished from the news in all the noise and hoopla of the general election,
though it is just about one year after the state burst into flames over the
reservations for Meitei judgment in the Manipur High Court in March last year. That ignited a bout of ethnic violence that has deepened the divisions along tribal
lines and hardened them like stone. As electoral assets go, the state is of
virtually no importance in the context of the Lok Sabha. But in the second phase o