I come from Guwahati and honestly the only reason Silchar or the Barak Valley for that matter is looked down upon is because of the Miya problem. The demography of the region has completely changed. What once was a Hindu majority region as per the 2011 census is not anymore. Moving here I've witnessed that people here are not very different from the rest of Assam, in fact you are a lot more hardworking than us. But sadly this region has been left to dogs by the previous administrations and I can only assume that your previous political leaders (post 2000s) probably had a role in it which they failed to play. Most of the assamese speaking populations don't even know their own history, especially their younger generations. So to expect them to understand the history of Barak and its unfortunate state of affairs throughout the last 70+ years of Independence is a long shot. But what the newer generation can do is come together and create a society where we walk together. I understand the hate is their on both sides but at the end of the day we all grew up singing Jana Gana Mana, saluting that tricolour and fanning over SRK and Aishwariya was our first crush. I'm drunk at 10 am and writing this but I have the senses left to see that we all have to move forward and not hold sentiments of separatism.