Subject: tin bigha tangent query
Date: Sep 26, 2000 @ 23:44
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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arif
it may be impossible to ask or answer but let me try to ask anyway
from all you have said i gather that the tin bigha corridor is not just a
rare sort of phenomenon but actually unique
yet i also believe there are scores or perhaps hundreds of similar enclaves
& other border difficulties in that whole bangladesh india scrambled area
& also that it remains a high security zone thruout as well
presumably on both sides of every one of these strange little lines
when they can be found or remembered at all
not to mention the rabbit holes within the rabbit holes etc
quite unlike footloose & fancy free baarle in that regard i would think
so i am wondering how people manage to get along & around in this area
like do they never leave their home enclaves
or do they only venture abroad at night or on holidays
when the governments might relax or wink a bit
or do they bribe the soldiers with cigarettes
in impromptu good natured pandominium
or how does that work out actually
because this has been the status quo in bangla even longer than korea
like can you imagine not leaving home for half a century
seeing the real smiles & presumably working mikes & protocols of jespers
chosen people at the korean frontier makes me suppose that something
resembling normal living may also have sprung up all along the bengal
frontier as well
but i wonder what the actual accommodations or easements or facilities
might be in that case
if not just a great many more tin bigha type thingies
m