When the party ends before it begins and crushes in its wake a hundred dreams—this is what happened to the Tlawng Festival that was scheduled at Lunglei on 13–14 October. A venue where, the organisers claimed, no other event has had to take permission, the authorities-that-be cited November 2022’s National Green Tribunal order to cancel the festival. “The District Park has always been open for the people. There were no permissions required. We would have paid the money for using the grounds...
