You know you're in Mizoram when...(Part 2)

(Part 1 of this post can be found on The Chhamanator blog)

• The Chief Minister is the self proclaimed unofficial spokesman of the state, who likes to comment on anything and everything without pondering upon the consequences.

• A great majority of people living in the bigger towns are more concerned about owning a vehicle, rather than a land and a house to call their own.

• Taking into consideration the per capita income, people have the latest and trendiest mobile phones.

• Bamboo flowering becomes a great source of corruption.

• Pastors distribute food to famine victims, while politicians are busy spreading the gospel.

• Per capita consumption of tobacco is the highest in the country, and could possibly be the highest in the whole world.

• Roads are repaired only during election years.

• A quintal bag of rice weighs only 75 kilos.

• A few number of below poverty line (BPL) families own a fridge, a television set, and sometimes even a second-hand jeep.

• Certain Laws and Acts become insignificant / inapplicable to a certain section of the population (read MLTP Act etc.).