Revisiting Kalimpong in Memory and History: A Look into the Town’s Vibrant Past
This paper is about a period in Kalimpong’s history when it was a bustling trade-town, a potpourri of the world’s…
Voices Behind Bars: A Mizo Woman’s Prison Writings
Twenty years of Rambuai (troubled times) resulted in political turmoil and chaos in the hills of Mizoram. While the entire…
Ning-them by Kumam Davidson Singh
Ning-them is a short fiction about finding oneself and one’s family. It is also a tale of friendship, love and…
Socialising through Saffron Texts: An Analysis of Ekal Vidyalayas / Abhiyan in Assam
The essay attempts to analyse two reference books of ‘Ekal Vidyalaya’ in upper Assam, a school operated by the Rashtriya…
Women and the Ethnic Conflict of Gorkhaland: Contesting History
This paper revisits the political conflict of 1986 (popularly known as Chyasi ko Andolan) in the Darjeeling Hills through the…
Gender in Folk Tales: Re-reading Khamba Thoibi
This paper examines the operational nature of the imagination and representation of female characters in Khamba Thoibi, a popular folktale…
‘The One Taken by God’…
‘Shamans’ or ‘Deodinis’ among the practitioners of the Bathou religion have been in existence since time immemorial. Though now they…
Suppressed Silences: Women as Witnesses and the Wounds of Witnessing Secret Killings in Assam
During the secret killings in Assam, family members, close aides and suspected sympathizers of insurgents from ULFA and human rights…
Burning Tite Pati: Healing Practices of the Indigenous Himalayan Peoples
This paper is an offering of knowledge-keeping that emerged from a collaboration with the author and her grandmothers. It honours…
Light and Shadow: How Women Remember the Nellie Massacre
This paper addresses the present and absent voices of women in narrating the story of the Nellie Massacre in Assam…
