NAPIDYAW: The king of the Konyak tribe sleeps in Myanmar but eats in India — his house, village and people divided by a mountain border, which serves as a vulnerable lifeline now severed by a coronavirus lockdown.

The Konyak are just one of dozens of Naga tribes, a people yearning to reunite the 3 million living in India with their 400,000 estranged — and much poorer — cousins in Myanmar’s isolated far north.

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