An offroading caravan takes Anurag Mallick on a journey through the mesmerising yet challenging tracks of nagaland.
The international Indo-Burmese boundary passed right through the middle of the Chief Angh’s residence in Longwa without a care for logical propriety or diplomatic correctness. On either side of the gatepost, alongside the national flags, were scrawled in chalk ‘Nagaland, India’ and ‘Sagaing, Myanmar.’ This wasn’t the first instance in recent times that we were wandering beyond boundaries. My mind flashed past the events of the past week. It’s not everyday that your airport pick up happens to be a mean self-drive. As our offroading crew landed at Dimapur for an extreme overland expedition across Nagaland, an armada of seven Mahindra Thars had already been shipped from Mumbai and waited in readiness. It was perhaps the last time we would see them in gleaming mint condition, as team leaders Nidhi Salgame and recently retired Col Satty Malik of Wander Beyond Boundaries (WBB) welcomed us, with automobile technician Sushil Guleria in tow. After introductions and a briefing, we were assigned our respective rides. I was in ‘8048’ teamed up with Reedaiy Pal, a young millennial half my age who drove a Thar back home in Delhi. Nidhi in her black ‘Thor’ was the ‘lead’, Sushil brought up the rear as the ‘sweep’, while Satty was the ‘float’ in between.
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