Shillong: On August 15 this year, Meghalaya’s capital, Shillong, looked less like a city marking India’s 75th Independence Day, and more like a city under siege. The extremely suspicious ‘encounter’ of ex-HNLC militant Cherishterfield Thangkhiew on August 13 had left the city’s residents angry, and on August 15, to mark their protests against Thangkhiew’s extrajudicial […]
