Death is a powerful equalizer. Kohima war cemetery is one of the most powerful reminders of this fact as you wander among graves thinking of men who died fighting each other in an alien land..... "The seas may roll between us; you are still in our memory dear"-...

The latest strike by Maoist at Kakarvitta in Nepal was just a few kilometers away from Siliguri in North Bengal. Clearly the theater has shifted much nearer to India. Not that North Bengal and Sikkim were so far untouched by the 'red tide' ( reports say Maoists routinely infiltrate India...