Dehradun, May 3 -- Book Review

In Between the Blurry Lines: 14 Defining Moments that shaped Arunachal Pradesh by Sonam Chombay is a state gazetteer, personal anecdote, pictorial documentation, administrative musing, as well as a nuanced blueprint for the future of India's 'loveliest and loneliest frontier'.

I must confess that, if this book, as well Ashish Kundra's A Resurgent North East : Narratives of Change, had been available four years earlier, I would have been able to add greater heft to my chapter on the reorganisation of the North East in my book We The People of the states of Bharat : The Making and Remaking of India's Internal Boundaries. The positive point to note is that scholarship in each of the states of the North East i...