Q: WHAT VACCINE DATA REVEAL ABOUT MEGHALAYA? ANS: DELUSION

Tarun Bhartiya
May 22, 2021
District Wise Vaccination rates for Meghalaya

Notice East Khasi Hills, supposedly educationally most advanced of the districts headquartered in Shillong, the hipster town. EKH is trumped decisively by West Garo Hills.

Compare this with Mizoram. Similar geography and religious history.

District Wise Vaccination rates for Mizoram

But shocker is when you place Meghalaya’s data next to Tripura

District Wise Vaccination rates for Tripura

Maybe Sikkim then

District Wise Vaccination rates for Sikkim

Obviously comparisions with a northern hill state Himachal Pradesh can make Meghalaya feel better

District Wise Vaccination rates for Himachal Pradesh

Only way we Meghalayans can feel a bit like Meghalayans if we compare ourselves to Nagaland & Manipur

District Wise Vaccination rates for Manipur
District Wise Vaccination rates for Nagaland

Once secretariat of Arunachal Pradesh was in Shillong. But the things have changed

District Wise Vaccination rates for Arunachal Pradesh

Finally Assam, gateway to Northeast maynot share the capital with us but our vaccine data are quite friendly.

District Wise Vaccination rates for Assam

Source: https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/IndiaVaccine

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Tarun Bhartiya

Middle aged Maithil imagemaker, poet and political activist based in Shillong, India