Eastern Quarterly
(Publication of the Manipur Research Forum, Delhi)
Vol. 5, Issue I, April – June 2008, pp. 61–65
’A Road, Smooth and Sleek like a Snake’: Development and the Rhetoric of Vision
"The World Bank will be replacing the old rundown road with a new road that will be smooth and sleek like a snake."
–Zoramthanga, Chief Minister of Mizoram
Zoramthanga’s choice of metaphor, though wonderfully resonant with the Northeast Indian landscape, is perhaps unusual. But to readers of (...)