NSCN(IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah, 91, spent a large part of his life between New Delhi and camp Hebron in Dimapur, performing the role of the chief political negotiator of the outfit as well as acting as glue to keep the Naga groups united back home. His advanced age took him away from New Delhi to camp Hebron in the post pandemic period, where he started spending more time in the vast swathes of land where armed cadres reside alongside the parallel government of the largest insurgent group; but now it is homecoming as he visits his village Somdal in Ukhrul district off Manipur on Wednesday—his first visit in over five decades.

For the last surviving founding leader of the NSCN, it is an emotional moment as the Tangkhul Naga is among his own people in his home ground, after s

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