who is the narrator in a trip to dzükou
Answers
Explanation:
There is in many of us, a desire to both live a civilized life and experience, if only temporarily, a wilder, less controlled world."
Jonathan Glancey in 'Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier', a book I was reading while traveling through Nagaland, realizing with each passing page, how little I've known about this part of India. The book, if anything, is a love letter to Nagaland, from a son of the 'Raj' who traveled extensively through Nagaland. The result of a yearning conceived during his childhood on hearing stories about this mystical land from his father who served in the British Army during the colonial rule in India. Intrigued by the descriptive accounts of Glancey's encounter with the extraordinary Naga landscape and its people, I couldn't wait to begin my own expedition. Reading this book, sitting comfortably on a couch at Nino's lovely homestay in Kohima, I was in love with Nagaland already.DzükouValley is located in Kohima, the capital city of Nagaland, a place that has seen some turbulent times for almost a century. During the Second World War, the Japanese troops witnessed defeat here in a battle that came to be known as the 'Stalingrad of the East'. Around 10,000 lives were lost. Nagaland became a part of India when the British left in 1947. Ever since then, several freedom factions, now referred to as 'insurgents', have been caught in an unremitting struggle for an 'Independent Nagaland' or as they like to say, 'Kuknalim'.
'Dzükou' means 'cold water' in Angami, the language of one of the 16 main Naga tribes, referring to the cold water running through the serpentine streams in the valley. Also popularly known as the 'Valley of Flowers', during July to September, Dzükou transforms into a spectacle with lilies and rhododendrons blooming in every corner. The rare Dzükou lily is found here.Standing tall at 2438 m above sea level, at the border of Manipur and Nagaland and right behind the Japfu Peak (3048 m), Dzükou Valley has also been the subject of a long ongoing territorial dispute between the North East Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland. It's heartbreaking to see that a place this beautiful has been through such turmoil and continues to do so.Dzükou Valley is one of the most recommended treks in Nagaland, yet the information available on it is very sketchy and incomplete. For two female backpackers, who were also novice trekkers, this wasn't a very good beginning.