New Mandala

In some countries big disasters always seem to be followed by big charity songs, the type where a whole lot of famous but not necessarily talented people sway backwards and forwards together and try to look sincere about donating their time and vocal chords for a good cause. But that a group of popular singers [...]

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Upon telling a nephew that I had just returned from Nagaland, he laughed because it didn’t seem that I was coming from abroad. The only “lands” he knew were Finland, Poland, Thailand and Holland. His school never told him anything about Nagaland.
- Extracted from Abhay Vaidya, “Travelling the distance to Nagaland”, The Morung Express, 15 [...]

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