Northeast India is home to over 272 beautiful ethnic groups and communities.For more than 63 years in the history of the independent India, the history of 45 million people living in 8 states of northeast region have been blanked from our school, college and university text books. This is one of the major causes of the wrong perception about the region; a strong reason why people of the northeast region are discriminated against when they travel for study and work in different parts of India. Lack of proper understanding of the region's history and its experiences has been the main impediment to proper policy formulation. Citizens, scholars and the general populace feel that this needs to be urgently fixed. Compilation of collective histories of some of the many ethnic communities will go a long way in building community peace-building in India's northeast and also help forge true pan-India unity. Weaving collective histories can be an important process in nation building. Letting young children grow up in different parts of India with an understanding, reading and experience of the rich history, culture, cuisines of northeast India will go a long way in nurturing the region and strengthening the nation as a whole. It's an idea whose time has come. Show your support by adding your name calling on the Indian Government to adopt the call to include history of Northeast India in national curriculum by by 15 August 2013 For more information, please log on to www.womensurvivorsnetwork.org www.cafi-online.org & http://neiwip.blogspot.com/

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