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For decades, Indian governments have spoken of the Northeast as a frontier. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has transformed that thinking. The Northeast has finally become a bridge. The recent Union Budget’s announcement of a Buddhist Circuit across Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura is therefore not a routine tourism proposal. It is a statement about how New Delhi now understands the region’s place in India’s civilisational map and diplomatic imagination. Monasteries, pilgrimage interpretation centres, trained guides, digital documentation, and improved connectivity are being woven into a single design that treats the Northeast not as a distant periphery but as the historical passage through which India once conversed with Asia.
This shift is not cosmetic. It corrects a long-standing strategic blindness. The Northeast has always been the corridor through which ideas, monk...
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