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Title: Second World War Sandwich Author: Digonta Bordoloi Cover: Haitenlo Semy Pan Macmilan India Price: 399/- Pages: 231 First published: 2021 ISBN: 978–93–89109–52–8 Thanks are due to Digonta Bordoloi , Pan Macmilan India , Sunny and Swati.   Background During my first visit to Nagaland, silly enough, I missed out a visit to the war memorial. The second trip, however, I made amends. The place is special. Every subsequent visit I made it a point to visit it with - time on hand. There, sitting in silence, amidst the graves, I felt a strange calm. Calm I have experienced only at a few other places. This book took me there. It again told me why the war memorial exists. What all a place which emanates peace and serenity today has seen in the past. The horror of violence and brutality at close quarters. It reminded me how little I knew of the battle that could have possibly altered a lot – including our map - had the result been otherwise. This book, a work of fiction, is a well-resea...

Kohima War Cemetery Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission We react to people. There are people we are at ease and love being with and there are those of the other kind. One reacts to places as well. Places that tend to make one comfortable and at peace - enough to be lost in thoughts that one wants to – are rare This is one such place After the first trip to Kohima - when a friend and I missed it - have tried to make it at least once during each trip On one of these missed those I had lost in recent years Not easy to recall another place - that one has been to - which has been maintained in such an immaculate fashion Once as I sat on a wall I was stunned with the manner in which one staff-member moved over the walls – for me it would have been high intensity jumps ( and a failed one had I been foolish to overrate myself and attempt one ) but looking at him, as he moved from one wall to another, was like enjoying a ballet The ...