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The speech

OK, i recently gave a speech in my college. And i have been requested to put it up online. So here it is...Its about Nagaland, the Nagaland i see at the moment, the Nagaland  i so love yet the Nagaland  i am so confused about.... “The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes  is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story….Stories matter, many stories matter, stories have been used to dispossess and to malign but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize, stories can break the dignity of a people but stories can also repair that broken dignity…..”-Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi-  The Danger of a Single Story. People, especially mainland Indians, have only a single story of Nagaland. No, in fact they have different single stories. They associate the Nagas with headhunting, Hornbill festival, Rock music, fashion and yes, Conflict. Nagaland the land of myths, where life is one long...