Bus to Burma

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Just returned from an official Burma trip. Nay Pi Taw, the capital, looks like a ghost city. Almost no people in the capital. Just huge hotels and malls stare at you from all corners. And huge roads. Yangon, the original capital city, could probably pass off as Calcutta in the 40s. And Aung San Suu Kyi, whom I met in a Yangon press conference, is magnetic. Hope to revisit soon and with a proper TV crew. As for this visit, it was just my camera and I.
Link to the CNN-IBN blogpost: http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/flyingtrapeze/148/63591/how-india-missed-the-burma-bus.html

On the reporting road

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Back in Northeast bureau and back to travelling and reporting. This photograph was taken in Manipur by my friend Tomba. With me in this photo is Mukut, Sunzu and Taton. Link to the election report. Manipur: The Angry State

Around Oxford

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Noticed this at a corner in Woodstock

Northeast India From A Distance

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In Oxford now and visiting the university as a Fellow. And in an attempt to recast my travels in Northeastern Indian states in the form of structured words--what could be a book at some point of time. This photograph is from a museum visit.

Train Again

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The Hill Queen zigzagging to Halflong, North Cachar

On a train to North Cachar

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After Nagaland was in Delhi for a while. And then travelled to North Cachar in the hill district of Assam. What a fascinating train journey in the metre gauge line! More on the journey and North Cachar in the next posts.

Inside Nagaland

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We took National Highway-39 and crossed Senapati district. Crossed Mao Gate. Reached Kohima. From Kohima travelled inside Nagaland to meet Thuingaleng Muivah in Pughoboto for a long interview. In this photograph my cameraman with Muivah after the interview.