Central idea of "Water" by ibomcha singh.
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The northeastern region of India, casually stereotyped and commonly referred
to as ‘the Northeast’ is a geographical area of 2.55 lakh square kilometers that
actually comprises eight different states namely Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, which have huge cultural,
linguistic, ethnic, or religious differences among them. The region covers 7.8 per cent
of the country’s total area, shares only 2 per cent of its boundary with India, while the
remaining 98 per cent is shared with the international borders of Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Myanmar, China and Nepal. It is linked to the rest of the country by a narrow corridor
which is referred to as the Chicken’s Neck’.
The region is a melting pot where the brown and the yellow races meet, where
the tradition and culture of different tribes and ethnic groups mingle, and where there
is a rich storehouse of different languages and dialects of these multi-ethnic people.
There are tribes still following traditional ‘animistic’ faiths those are ‘woven around
forest ecology’ and profess ‘co-existence with the natural world’ (Dai 2006: xi), even
though religions like Hinduism (particularly in the states of Assam, Manipur, Tripura
and Sikkim), Christianity (in the hills of Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and
Nagaland), Buddhism (in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim) and Islam (particularly in
the state of Assam and other parts of the region) have made a dominant presence.
An immensely rich archive of some rare species of flora and fauna, the
Northeast India is quite rich in biodiversity. The region contains more than one-third
of the country’s total biodiversity. It is considered one of the 18 biodiversity hotspots
of the world having about 8000 varieties of flowering plants, 700 varieties of orchids,
58 varieties of bamboos, 64 species of citrus, 28 species of conifers, 500 varietie