Reacting to a news article, “Murder most foul” by Ambika Shukla that appeared on July 14 edition of a National daily accusing ‘Northeasterners’, as a ‘race’ of people of routine, vicious ‘lynching, barbecuing’ and eating dogs, the ‘Northeasterners’ has demanded unequivocal retraction and unqualified apology from Shukla for maligning the entire population.
A press communiqué received here said, Shukla, in her zeal to punish the Naga student of JNU and to malign the entire population of the eight states of the region, has abandoned the rudiments of civilized behavior of granting a fundamental right of the Indian Constitution that holds one innocent until proven guilty.
The communiqué said that ‘Northeasterners’ were now feathered in the public eye by Shukla and her enablers as savage dog killers and eaters. It demanded an apology for the Naga student who has been publicly accused of a crime, the authenticity of which has never been validated by a court of law or even investigated by the state, thereby ruining his reputation and career. It also demanded investigation by the Indian Armed Forces over the incident of Shukla’s husband’s authority and grounds for threatening certain Naga villagers and headman with dire-consequences, merely on the basis of their bigoted belief that the Nagas might have held their temporarily missing pet dog for dinner.
It may be mentioned Shukla, in her article had said the JNU Naga student and two of his friends brutally killed a campus dog with the aim of ‘barbecuing’ it.
She had also prefaced the article with an account of her military-officer husband stationed in Nagaland, who once had to go threaten the village headman ‘closest’ to her base with ‘all sorts of dire consequences’ if their Irish Setter pet dog that was missing for an unspecified amount of time ‘did not return’; which apparently did ‘twenty minutes later; in response to her husband’s invocation of the full might of the Indian Army.
Monday, February 16, 2026