Dear all, Please find the following Assam Tribune , Friday Horizon article on Ms. Kilang Yanger , a young scientist hailing from Nagaland. http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/showpage.asp?id=Horizon,1,741,375,675,1329 I am immensely pleased to know and write about someone from my Seven Sister state of Nagaland. I appreciate Satyajit Nath of Seattle for introducing Ms. Kilang to me and also to my mentor Wahid Saleh for constant encouragement. Thanks Ankur Dallas , Texas The following paragraph shortened from my original article is reproduce below Kilang is immensely grateful to her parents for allowing her to blaze her own trail rather than follow the well-trodden paths of others, and to her grandparents who always emphasized the importance of education. She shared with me the story of her gratitude – “during the Sino-Indo war of 1962, my late paternal grandfather, L.T. Yanger, was posted there as the Base Superintendent administrative officer under what was then the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA). He was among few of pioneering officers who left Nagaland to serve in NEFA risking life and limb to go into unchartered territories to place high altitude international boundary markers along the McMahon line that helped define our country’s borders along the Sino India Burma tri-junction. My grandmother had to deal with limited supplies that came through only via the boxes that were parachuted down from the Dakota planes flying above or after a 15 day march by porters along precipitous routes. My grandfather and father narrowly escaped when the war broke out in the winter and managed to make it safely to Tezu and to Dibrugarh in Assam. It was one of my wishes that we go back and see the place as a family again” _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
