A Flipkart customer care personnel replied on the company’sofficial Twitter handle that the company will not be able to deliver to Nagalandas the sellers do not deliver outside India.
The Flipkart handle replied regretting the non-delivery oforders. “Sorry to hear that. We appreciate your interest in shopping with us.However, sellers do not provide our services outside India,” the reply said.
The offending tweet was promptly deleted and an officialapology was issued, “We are extremely sorry about the inadvertent errorearlier. We strive to ensure serviceability across the nation, includingregions in Nagaland. We are happy to connect with you and provide currentlyavailable options…”
The nation rallied against the company and its ignorance andcalled for it being a part on India. “Although not with Flipkart, Even I hadthis experience once. Nagaland is India #Flipkart”, Nagaland’s Director Generalof Police for Borders Affairs Rupin Sharma wrote in on Twitter.
The surprise in all this is the Nagaland people’s desire tovent out their desire to become independent from New Delhi.
The original poster mentioned, ‘…We still didn’t getindependence …’
Another person commented, ‘#Nagaland is a part of India/(an)market, with or without the Naga's consent.’.
Another person posted, “Thank you @flipkart for predictingour future & giving us freedom too soon….Nagaland is a new country nowaccording to them.”
British journalist Jonathan Glancey, the author of Nagaland:A Journey to India’s Forgotten Frontier, in a 2011 interview claimed that thedesire for independence if deep-rooted for Nagaland. Even nine years back, thejournalist found that no matter how much integrated the people of Nagaland arewith the global economy, there is always an undercurrent of desire forindependence.
From a villager to professors in North America, every personof Nagaland origin has told the journalist that Nagaland is for sale.