About The Book: Is That Even a Country, Sir!: Journeys in Northeast India by
Train, Bus and Tractor
'The story of Indias most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a
poor, petulant reporter… Stripped of the exotic, the Northeast in this book
appears bare, burnt and betrayed…
—Scroll.in
When violence broke out before elections in Assam in 2000, in which
Hindi-speakers from North India were massacred, two out-of-work journalists,
Anil Yadav and Anhes Shashwat, decided to go there, braving violence and
uncertainty, with the hope that their despatches would make them famous. At that
time, they had very little knowledge about Northeast India and no strategy