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A journey through the Northeast India Handbook can take you from a coffee house political debate in intellectual Kolkata to ash-smeared Varanasi, gazing across the Ganga through plumes of smoke – another soul`s blissful release into moksha; from Bodh Gaya, where pilgrims seek peace beneath the Buddha`s Bodhi tree, to Puri, home to one of Hinduism`s most riotous festivals; from tiny Sikkim, so ethnically Himalayan and so clean that you can forget you`re in India altogether, to the Christianized hills on the frontier with Myanmar, where elders in hornbill-feather headgear oversee traditions that predate the `universal` religions by millennia.
Veteran broadcaster Mark Tully perfectly summed up India`s Northeast when he described the country as “a land where there are no full stops”. Here, the India of old – steam trains lumbering through misty tea gardens, Bengal tigers stalking the mangrove forests, golden monasteries perched on mountain peaks – collides with the tensions that underlie the modernization of the New India.
ISBN - 9789380070407
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Pages : 360
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