In the spring of 2008, Siddhartha Sarma went on a land trip across east Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, into western Myanmar. This is his account about travelling over a part of the country that takes a great deal of convincing to cross alone, but which is totally worth visiting. Peppered with anecdotes, accounts from history and about the people of these lands, East of the Sun talks, at a breakneck, quirky pace about what to do and what to avoid doing while on the road here, how the people here came to be what they are, and why there is more to India's eastern frontier than just what you read in the newspapers. Sarma exhorts us to be circumspect in trusting his account.