Patricia Mukhim is what all of us need to be. Sadly she is a rarity. Because there is a cost you have to pay for being a person of conscien...
Patricia Mukhim is what all of us need to be. Sadly she is a rarity. Because there is a cost you have to pay for being a person of conscience like she is. More than others, it is your own you have to stand up against.
Patricia Mukhim is being hounded by her own people for having called out the violence that they have in their hearts for “others”. One of our finest editors and journalists, she has been consistent in her critique of all kinds of communal, ethnic or sectarian violence and she is especially unsparing when her own people are involved in it.
Living in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya and editing The Shillong Times, she keeps warning her people, especially the Khasi tribal groups, that there are xenophobic tendencies in them, there is a dangerous feeling of cultural superiority and a sense of entitlement and they need to cure themselves of this disease.
Police complaint
In the most recent case, she has police complaint for having condemned the attack on five non-tribal youth by a gang of masked men, allegedly tribals. These young men were playing basketball when the attackers assaulted them with iron rods.
Mukhim wrote a Facebook post calling upon the chief minister and the...
