For over 11 months now, Manipur has been under President’s Rule. At the outset, few would have disputed the move, given the evident inability of former chief minister N Biren Singh — widely seen as a partisan figure — to contain the ethnic conflict. But almost 33 months since the violence first erupted, Manipur remains carved up into buffer zones that rigidly segregate the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities. While there have been sporadic bouts of violence, the past few months had seen a lull — until the evening of January 21, when a man, a Meitei, living with his wife, a Kuki, for the past month in........

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