A brand new travelogue offers a kaleidoscopic account of the Northeast, its flavour, magnificence, historical past, geopolitics, and its individuals.
“Into the East: 7 States, 7000 km, A Trip to reclaim Life” is billed as a cracker of a street journey to a few of India’s most difficult, lovely, and historic locations which can hearth anyone’s dream of happening an overland journey to the Northeast.
Writer Sabir Hussain determined to jot down about his expertise of using 7,000 km throughout seven states in about 50 days additionally to dispel many misconceptions in regards to the Northeast.
“The Northeast is generally considered via a prism that paints it as unstable and infrequently a harmful place to go to for a wide range of causes. A lot of the inhabitants is taken into account alien for his or her bodily options, meals habits, and lifestyle. The fact may be very totally different,” says Hussain, a journalist hailing from Assam.
Within the winter of 2018, 53-year-old Hussain threw warning to the wind and set off on his journey on a borrowed Royal Enfield Himalayan bike to reclaim his life from the monotony of a desk job in New Delhi and to retrace his roots.
The trip that started in Siliguri in north Bengal took him via Sikkim, the Darjeeling hills, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Nagaland alongside a few of the most perilous and picturesque roads within the nation.
Most of the locations on his route have been simply dots on the map however they’ve their very own appeal that left him with priceless takeaways from the once-in-a-lifetime journey. Amongst these locations is Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh the place Hussain was amazed to see a lottery that provides mithuns (massive bovine within the jap Himalayas), pigs, goats, and rooster as prizes.
Hussain thought he owed it to himself to jot down about his expertise. Thus “Into the East” was born. The 335-page-book has been printed by Readomania.
Hussain has been part of a number of bike expeditions to Ladakh between 1998 and 2008 as a member of a Delhi-based bikers’ membership known as Pathfinders. His first e book “Battlefields & Paradise” was a bike travelogue that he wrote after using solo via Kashmir to India’s northernmost place known as Turtuk on the sting of Ladakh alongside the Line of Management with Pakistan.
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