For over half a dozen Nagaland villages, scattered on mountainous terrain and cut off from the rest of the world in the absence of motorable road, villages in Myanmar just across the international border have come as a saviour. Villagers belonging to Yimchunger Naga tribe inhabiting the Kiphire district of Nagaland, sustain themselves through barter trade with their counterparts in Myanmar. The villagers living on two sides of the mountain that separate the two countries have been emotionally close since long and there is free movement between them. Indian authorities do not mind their free exchange keeping in mind their need for each other. Even marriage also sometimes take place between the people groups of people. The villagers basically trade salt, medicines, tea, honey and wax in exchange for Myanmarese rum, precious...
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