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Book review : Across the Chicken Neck by Nandita Haksar

Across the Chicken Neck by human rights activist and lawyer Nandita Haksar is a travel book with a very substantial difference. Even as Haksar and her husband Sebastian Hongray drive across the Chicken Neck, that sliver of land that connects the Northeast to the rest of India, visiting Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, the Indo-Bhutan border, what Haksar…

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