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Book Review: The Himalayan Arc Edited by Namita Gokhale

The Himalayan Arc, Journeys East of South-east. Edited by Namita Gokhale. HarperCollins. More geopolitical than travelogue, this is an interesting compilation where the snow-topped mountains feature less, and the lands that lie east of the massif, on its sides and its foothills, its plains and valleys feature more. Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar, all of the…

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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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