Lal Thanhawla : The Boy from Zarkawt and The Making of Mizoram – Sanjoy Hazarika

Description

The story of Mizoram over the past century, told through the life of Lal Thanhawla — Pu Hawla — the state’s longest-serving chief minister. It follows the region’s long road from insurgency and conflict to peace and statehood, through political rivalries, negotiations and dealings with national leaders from Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi.

Based on hundreds of interviews, archival research and two years of fieldwork by journalist and scholar Sanjoy Hazarika, former New York Times reporter and author of Strangers of the Mist.