Have We Ever Tried To Know The Northeast? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Have we ever tried to comprehend
The impregnable and treacherous northeast,
Full of hills, vales, mountans, dense forests,
Wild and unfurrowed,
Steep and unthinkable?

Have we,
Have we ever the society, art, culture and living
Of the northeast people,
Perhaps never, bever did wee try to
Comprehend the spirit of it,
The soul of the far flung terrain,
Never strove to learn
How did they live?

Only the Naga sadhus told they,
Interacted with,
Broke the news from,
Just as cultural ambassadors,
The lamas travelled they
Travering the impassable,
The boddha-bhikhus from China.

How risky and dangerous
Would it have been the passage
And they came from
From east
With a view to understanding
Buddha and his Buddhism
Taking an entourage!

India forgot it Buddha and Buddhism,
But remembered they,
The ancient people from Ceylon, China, Japan,
Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Mongolia,
Tibet, Sikkim, Hongkong,
Cambodia, Singapore.