Infinity Inklings

Infinity Inklings

Why is there a Japanese-funded Cathedral in India’s most Baptist state?

A church in Nagaland designed like a tribal house, paid for by Japanese war families, and built on the battlefield of the Stalingrad of the East

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Nishad Sanzagiri
Mar 25, 2026
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A local house in the village of Dzuleke, Nagaland.

The road from Dzuleke to Kohima drops you from forest silence into hill-city noise within a couple of hours. After three days in Nagaland, two of them in villages where the loudest sound was the crowing of roosters early in the mornings, Kohima felt abrupt. Then the cathedral appeared.

It sat on Aradura …

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