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November 11, 2008

The Jackfruit Tree (A short story in Mizo by Van Neih Tluanga Translated into English by Margaret L. Pachuau)

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The Jackfruit Tree The life of that jackfruit tree was even more meaningless than that of an      emaciated, withered tree. It was a tree that had been tormented by different  classes of labourers as well as immigrants and it bore those scars well. The  lower limb of the tree had been mauled beyond recognition. Over a huge  fork in the tree there hung an empty cement bag, a lone slipper, a  ramshackle shoe and an old lungi. On the other fork, there sprouted a  couple of tender young leave

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