More than five decades after he first went underground to join the fight for Naga autonomy, Thuingaleng Muivah, general secretary of the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), now 91 years old, will have a ‘homecoming’ on Wednesday.

His village Somdal and Manipur’s Ukhrul district, where it is located, are preparing to welcome him back for the first time since he joined the Naga movement in the mid-1960s, apart from a brief and secret visit that reportedly took place in 1973.

The now-aged Muivah, a Tangkhul Naga, is the last surviving founding leader of the NSCN. That puts him at the helm of talks with the Indian government for a solution to the longstanding Naga political problem since the NSCN (I-M) entered a ceasefire agreement in 1997, and, for all

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