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High Art, Low Lives

At the end of a failed attempt to reach Kunming (in China) from Margherita (in Assam) we were quick to settle for a resort nearby. This is what I enjoy most about travelling with my friends - this ability to happily settle for rabbit piss while you were actually looking for moonshine. When we started from Guwahati 650 kilometres ago, no one knew where we were going. Such is the level of meticulous planning and detailed organisation of the ensemble we were travelling in. The ensemble performs music and is quite popularly known. Thankfully they had a show in Margherita. Or we would not even know where to go from Guwahati. Somewhere through the 650 km journey, from Guwahati to Margherita, that for some inexplicable reason started at 2 am in the morning, we managed to decide that we will go somewhere beyond Margherita and visit unknown frontiers and untouched forests. Making decision you must know is more difficult than driving 650 km straight through a night and more dangerous than the un...

For a Free Land, Free Life

Please sign the Impunity Must End in Manipur petition to end Armed Forces Special Power Act in Manipur. Irom Sharmila (who I wrote about earlier) has been on hunger strike for 10 years demanding removal of this atrocious law that our own (?) country has imposed upon us. Enough is enough. For a free land and a free life, please click on the following link and sign the online petition. http://campaigns.ahrchk.net/manipur/ I know online petitions are a bore. Also I am not really sure about how effective they are. But for this, I will try anything. It's a matter of freedom or death! So friends. Please sign.