For most of mainland India, the North East remains an enigma, and one that's well, far off.

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Arunachal pradesh: The Hidden Land

By Mamang Dai. Published by Penguin India
Price: Rs 1,500.


For most of mainland India, the North East remains an enigma, and one that's well, far off.

Journalist and former civil servant Mamang Dai decided to venture into untapped coffee table book territory with this book on one of India's most distant lands, also her homeland.

She mentions in the Preface, that the book is "an attempt to record that way of life that I perceive as a miracle of faith." Flip through the pages, and you know this holds true.

The Monpas wear hats ranging from the white yak hair caps to the embroidered Tibetan caps with felt lining. The rain cap or black Gurdam made of yak felt, has twisted ends to allow rain water to drip off the tips

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