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Shillong: One of Rabindranath Tagore’s literary masterpieces,‘Shesher Kobita’, literally begins with a ‘bang’ where the protagonists, Labanya and Amit, are involved in a head-on car collision while winding down through the ‘zig-zag’ roads, amidst the pine trees, at Rilbong in Shillong, reports Manosh Das.While Tagore’s much-celebrated novel, based in Shillong, deals with the intricacies of human relationship and love, the city itself has turned into an intricate maze of roads and is a far cry from what Tagore had experienced in the last century. Choc-a-block with vehicles, the roads in the hill city have become a nightmare for motorists and pedestrians alike, with the traffic department continuously trying to cope with the ever-increasing numbers.

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