Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, who moved the resolutions said the political issue and the negotiations had reached a crucial stage and that the time had come for the August House to rise to the occasion and play its contributory role.  

The scene above was not a spontaneous meeting with a band of Naga warriors. It was one out of many performances from Kohima's annual Hornbill Festival in which members of all Nagaland's tribes come together just outside the capital to celebrate their respective and distinct cultural heritage.

Even Tolkien couldn’t have just imagined a place so stunning. His fabled ‘Misty Mountains in Middle Earth’, those lofty sentinels of Rivendell, seem inspired by the forever fog-draped mountains of… no not Switzerland, not New Zealand… but Nagaland. Yup, Tolkien was there.