Comments on: A guided tour to outer-India (I)

By: KKumar

KKumar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:14:25 +0000

Oh I did not mean to be insensitive to the issues and struggles of our countrymen in outer india. My apologies.

By: Maloy Krihna Dhar

Maloy Krihna Dhar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:41:18 +0000

For: KKumar,
You have tested tea for 5 days. You have not seen the people in real canvas. Try and let me know. I am a Bengali; want to have fish! Drop in. At Least 10 varieties would be served. But, for god’s sake look at outer India with sensitive heart and thinking brain. Not as a tourist bum.

By: KKumar

KKumar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:37:33 +0000

With outmost respect and contempt that you got to do it all Damn you sir!!!! :), for leaving us with a sense of what you relished and what is forbidden fruit for most of us. Well serving in the IB has its perks I guess If you think of it as a perk. You deserved everybit of it and more. I could’nt have imagined you can write with satarical humour. This is a welcome deviation from your usual style which is served “black and hot and unfiltered”.

5 day North east tour all we got to see was plentiful drive throughs via tea gardens, not a whiff of the 80 types of fish or madhu or ruhi… I thought all that people ate and drank there was tea. We got take home samples of tea packs too..Yeah we felt honored. Lest we knew who was really hidden away.

Dhar Saab, Thanks for enjoying it and rubbing it in. My comments are written in good spirit sir. Hope it doesnt offend you. I plan to take a trip with my A/F schoolmate next summer. He has promised to keep my head and rest of the body intact,lets see what future holds.

I would want this indigenous people to live their life as they desire yet understand that they are pleats and seams in our national fabric.

Jolly good article.

By: Samir Poddar

Samir Poddar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:41:24 +0000

I am impressed by the simplicity and stinging humour in the article. People are so ignorant in main India about northeast. I thnik we are gradually losing the war of minds. Pity!

By: Jaideep Gogoi

Jaideep Gogoi — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:06:48 +0000

An excellent exposition of the real ground situation. mainland India does not bother about the peripheral areas. It is deploring and can lead to huge problems.

By: Lasang Tangkhul

Lasang Tangkhul — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:27:20 +0000

Come and visit us in Manipur hills. We will receive you with open mind.

By: T. K. Das

T. K. Das — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:14:03 +0000

I feel tempted to visit the exquisite places in the outer India (Manipur in particular)even at this advanced age of mine. But the safety factor scares me.
I wonder whether tourism can develop here.

Safety/ security of the tourists, paying guest facilities (rather than hotel establishment which may not run economically to begin with), safe roads and safe transport facilities are essential for any industry to develop. Without these, this part of India will remain as dark as the dark continent of Africa. Some law and order can be established by force. But it cannot last long. People have to realize the benefit of it.

If the people can be made to realize that it (tourism) can be a source of income to a good number of people there, they may welcome the idea one day and resist the extremists themselves from creating a lawless situation. But good sense prevails very rarely.

Let us keep on hoping for the best.