Mizoram

Seen from the sky, Mizoram seems to have been ploughed by a forgetful god who left the deep north-south furrows with a green fuzz of bamboo. Mizoram is tidy and almost entirely Christian. You'll see very few Indian faces amongst the local Thai-Chinese style features. People are surreally but uninvasively friendly. Don't be surprised if you're warmly thanked by total strangers for bothering to visit their state.

Mizoram runs entirely to its own rhythm. Most businesses are long shut by 6pm, and virtually everything closes tight on Sunday. Forget breakfast-lunch-dinner, Mizos traditionally have two main meals, zongchaw (morning meal) and tlaichaw (afternoon meal). Both feature rice, boiled leaves, boiled vegetables and boiled fatty smoked-pork alongside. Flavor is added using rawt, a salsa of diced chillies, ginger and onion. On paper Mizoram is a dry state but friendly, wobbling drunks are surprisingly common.

Mizo culture has no caste distinctions and women seem pretty ,liberated; in Aizawl girls smoke openly, wear jeans and hang out in unchaperoned posses meeting up with their beaus at rock concerts on the central field. Musical tastes favor gospel, Megadeath and Avril Lavigne, preferably all combined. Similarly curious are the Aizawl Thunders, Mizoram's local biker gang who despite their leathers and growling Enfields are determinedly democratic.

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