As per the Constitution of India, the commonly known fact is, no Indians can have a dual citizenship. Even in case, someone holds one then that individual automatically gets terminated from being the citizen of India.
But what might be the condition of people who reside in an area, which lies between the border of two countries? Where do the people legally belong to? Will the people be terminated as the citizens of India? Or is this just a pseudo situation which has not affected in determining the land border of India?
The situation is an actual reality of current India .
The house of the village head of Longwa in Nagaland lies between India and Myanmar. It is said that, every individual born in this village are legally granted with the citizenship of two countries, India as well as Myanmar. With this, the people of the village are the only ones to be entitled with dual citizenship, contradictory to the rule of single citizenship. The interaction between two countries have not just restricted to legal rights but also socio-health benefits.
This unique regional diversity of India, reminds the poem of Robert Frost in which the poet emphasises against the walls, which reads : ‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
….Where they have left not one stone on a stone’
Incase of frost elements like frost, rabbit, hunters and dogs have destroyed the wall built between him and his neighbour.
Whereas for India, it is the culture of Naga tribe and the humanitarian social interaction which surpassed even the law of the land.
There also exists various national as well as international boundaries separating a particular region.
Kasargod in case of Karnataka-Kerala border, and Punjab in case of Indo-Pak are too no exception to certain critical boundary disputes, but what makes Langwa interesting is the peaceful co-existence and the legal grant on dual citizenship.