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TREASURY SQUARE is Aizawl’s centre of gravity. Virtually all Mizo dailies and magazines are published out of modest offices on the lanes branching off the arterial road. The two major political parties – Congress and Mizo National Front (MNF) – have their State headquarters here. It’s also where the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police of Aizawl district operate from. Then there’s Vanapa Hall almost always hosting fashion shows, rock concerts, social functions and political conventions. But to the world beyond, these often aren’t reasons to be in Treasury Square. The destination for many a visitor is a whitewashed, three-storied building sporting six letters, four capitalized – Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR). If you have been to DIPR offices – dingy dump-yards, rather – elsewhere in Northeast India, you are bound to be struck by its exterior. And awe-struck after you step inside the first-floor office of the man who’s captained the departm...
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