Click to play videoKaho (Arunachal Pradesh): Kaho is not a name that would come up easily on any Indian map but for the Indian Army Kaho is crucial from any point of view.
It's the last village on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh's Walong sector and getting there isn't easy.
From the border post of Kibithu, it takes an hour over terrain that can only be described as rough with the raging Lohit River now far below.
The CNN-IBN team, which was in Kaho found out that some of the people here have memories of the 1962 war of fleeing their homes in the wake of the army but their flight was short lived.
“That night the Chinese troops came, they surrounded us and told us to return to Kaho village immediately and complete the harvest. 10 days later the war was over,” says a resident, Nalo.
Others recall some contact with Tibet in the days before the Chinese occupation.
“Before the war my parents told me of going across there. We had a lot of relations there to whom we used to take food items and come back with plates and household goods,” says a resident, Sonam Chimumiya.
And if given a choice they wouldn't live anywhere else.
“It is a great place, no tension no contact etc,” says another resident, Chochide Muir.
It doesn't seem to matter that more than four decades after their lives were turned upside down the border area they inhabit remains neither settled nor permanent.
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