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Dr Robert Lyman in discussion with Robert and Sylvia May recounting the story of the Naga village of Pangsha, from its earliest exposure to the British in the 1930s through to the crash of an American C46 transport aircraft in August 1943 and how the Kohima Educational Trust became involved.
In 2009 Robert and Sylvia May visited Pangsha, a remote Naga village seventeen hours drive north east of Kohima. Their journey was on behalf of KET as it had been identified as one of the more deprived areas of Nagaland. A local Mission school serving a 50 mile area to which children travelled on foot and there was a need for a hostel in which the children could stay.
Before leaving Kohima, their friend and Kohima Educational Society chairman at the time, Pheluopfhelie Kesiezie had told of a piece of an aeroplane found and kept by the villagers of Pangsha.
Fascinated by this, having photographed the plane part Robert May undertook extensive research on his return to the UK and unearthed an extraordinary story of another WW2 theatre touching the lives of the Nagas.
Dr Robert Lyman, author of Among the Headhunters will talk about these remote hills people and how few times the outside world had ever reached them and the outcome when it did.
Dr Robert Lyman in discussion with Robert and Sylvia May recounting the story of the Naga village of Pangsha, from its earliest exposure to the British in the 1930s through to the crash of an American C46 transport aircraft in August 1943 and how the Kohima Educational Trust became involved.
In 2009 Robert and Sylvia May visited Pangsha, a remote Naga village seventeen hours drive north east of Kohima. Their journey was on behalf of KET as it had been identified as one of the more deprived areas of Nagaland. A local Mission school serving a 50 mile area to which children travelled on foot and there was a need for a hostel in which the children could stay.
Before leaving Kohima, their friend and Kohima Educational Society chairman at the time, Pheluopfhelie Kesiezie had told of a piece of an aeroplane found and kept by the villagers of Pangsha.
Fascinated by this, having photographed the plane part Robert May undertook extensive research on his return to the UK and unearthed an extraordinary story of another WW2 theatre touching the lives of the Nagas.
Dr Robert Lyman, author of Among the Headhunters will talk about these remote hills people and how few times the outside world had ever reached them and the outcome when it did.
