Innovative rock-cutting work in Nagaland, India!

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Hard rock cutters of Nagaland, with the backdrop of peach and pear trees in blossom! See how they innovatively crack and large rock, by introducing numerous weak points into it. Low tech rock and stone cutting is commonplace in India. Road work involves rock cut and stone cut processes as well. People cutting a big rock into smaller stone blocks in Nagaland in North East India. The labourers use chisel and hammer to break a large rock and cut it into small blocks. Nagaland is a state in the far north-eastern part of India. It borders the state of Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam to the north, Burma to the east and Manipur to the south. The state capital is Kohima, and the largest city is Dimapur. The state of Nagaland has an area of 16,579 km2 with a population of 1,9