Tags
AFSPA, army, Dimpaur, Goods, Illegal, Imphal, India, Insurgency, Kohima, Manipur, Myanmar, Nagaland, North East, NorthEast, Travel, truck drivers, truckers, trucks
A soldier keeps watch as trucks pass through NH39
By no stretch of imagination is Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland, a pleasant place to live in. On a damp Sunday morning, it feels like I have walked into a tropical war zone — there is a strange uneasiness in the air and the roads have been chiselled away by passing trucks and frequent downpours into an uneven slush of concrete and mud: a consequence of frictional forces and persistent civic indifference. Continue reading
Advertisements
