@article {article614, title = {The wages of ignorance}, author = {Arup Kumar Dutta}, journal = {Foundation of The Billion Press}, date = 2021-08-15, year = 2021, url = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/society/wages-ignorance-614, Abstract = {The people of North-East India have been, in numerous ways, paying the price for geopolitical remoteness. The reality that, after Partition, this region was tenuously connected to mainland India through a 20 km wide “chicken neck” had} }