Manipur: Failed state?

It takes mere moments after one lands in Manipur to deduce that the state is well and truly withering away. This landlocked province in India's troubled northeast, wracked by militancy for unending years, is like a gradually imploding minefield. Abject poverty, alarming unemployment, lack of development, massive corruption and absence of governance is pushing Manipur to the brink of being a 'failed state' - perhaps India's first in the modern era.

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