How was your state like pre 2005?🤔🤔

I'll start by my own experience in Manipur, i remember visiting the sangai festival with a relative of mine , we decided to leave early and went home the very next day what we saw horrified us , it was everywhere in the news that a bomb was found in the festival premise ,don't remember if it exploded or not but it internally left a very big impact i can also recall that very frequently around 5-6 pm the dimly lit streets were covered by meira paibis with their flaming torches that scene is also etched deeply in my memory what about you guys how was your state like between 2000-2012 you can just share 1-2 memories that are deeply etched in your mind