Is That Even a Country Sir by Anil Yadav, Edition 2017
When Hindi speakers from North India were massacred in Assam before the elections in 2000, two out of work journalists, Anil Yadav and Anhes Shashwat, decided to go there, braving violence and uncertainty, with the hope that their dispatches would make them famous. They set out with very little knowledge about Northeast India and no strategy for their trip; they had few contacts and very little money. On 29 November 2000, the pair embarked on what became an epic journey in which they crisscrossed Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Manipur, staying in rundown hotels and guesthouses, and in the homes of friends and strangers. They travelled by local buses through ambushes, were forced to walk halfway down the highway from Shillong to Guwahati and, on one memorable ocassion, Anil shared a tractor with a herd of goats on the road to Sibsagar. They encountered, among others, a boatman on the Brahmaputra who clearly explained to them the politics behind the massacres of Hindi-speakers; former members of the ULFA who told them why they had surrendered; a former general of Zapu Phizo
- Author:Anil Yadav
- Binding Type:Paper Back
- ISBN:9789386582300
- Total Pages:256
- Publishing Year:2017
- Language:English