A Flipkart customer care personnel replied on the company’s official Twitter handle that the company will not be able to deliver to Nagaland as the sellers do not deliver outside India.
The Flipkart handle replied regretting the non-delivery of orders. “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 official apology was issued, “We are extremely sorry about the inadvertent error earlier. We strive to ensure serviceability across the nation, including regions in Nagaland. We are happy to connect with you and provide currently available options…”
The nation rallied against the company and its ignorance and called for it being a part on India. “Although not with Flipkart, Even I had this experience once. Nagaland is India #Flipkart”, Nagaland’s Director General of Police for Borders Affairs Rupin Sharma wrote in on Twitter.
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The surprise in all this is the Nagaland people’s desire to vent out their desire to become independent from New Delhi.
The original poster mentioned, ‘…We still didn’t get independence …’
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 predicting our future & giving us freedom too soon….Nagaland is a new country now according to them.”
British journalist Jonathan Glancey, the author of Nagaland: A Journey to India’s Forgotten Frontier, in a 2011 interview claimed that the desire for independence if deep-rooted for Nagaland. Even nine years back, the journalist found that no matter how much integrated the people of Nagaland are with the global economy, there is always an undercurrent of desire for independence.
From a villager to professors in North America, every person of Nagaland origin has told the journalist that Nagaland is for sale.