Children’s Literature of the Tai Phake community of Assam
This paper is an attempt to introduce Tai Phake children’s literature and to look at this age-old literature through a…
Stories by the Fire on a Winter Evening: Assamese Folk Tales Read and Re-Told
This paper is the germ of an idea, a call for the urgent necessity and the collaboration of other writers,…
Kereng Kothoma: A Modern Retelling of the Folk Tales of Tripura
Kereng Kothoma: A Modern Retelling of the Folk Tales of Tripura is a translation project. The translated stories revolve around…
Memories of Meter Gauge: Narratives of Women from Lumding Railway Colony
The railways arrived in Assam in the latter half of the 19th century, which led to the formation of several…
A Kitchen Across the Khal
A Kitchen across the Khal is a short story with three women–the narrator, her mother Rosie and her grandmother Champa–…
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…
