Mizoram on Tuesday celebrated a dry Christmas as the new Mizo National Front government has declared dry days from December 21 to January 14.
The hill state celebrated its 148th year of Christmas celebration after it was started by the colonial British troops back in 1871.
“Christianity is the harbinger of modernity as well as women’s liberation in Mizoram. The Christian missionaries, therefore, are regarded as a symbol of modernisation,” Zosangliana Colney, a church head, told reporters in Aizawl.