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…
An Artist and Her Craft: The Story of Nameirakpam Ibemni and Khongjom Parba
This paper looks at Khongjom Parba, a form of oral ballad practiced in Manipur through the lens of one of…
An Imagined Graphic History of the Meitei Graphic Narrative
In the form of a graphic narrative intertwined with the story of the illustrative art of the Meiteis, this paper…
Unheard Voices Behind the Concrete Walls: The Plight of Women Migrant Construction Workers in Assam
Through the interviews of 30 women migrant construction workers working in Hatigaon in Guwahati, this paper tries to highlight the…
Revisiting the Past and Unveiling the Gendered Legacy: History and Representation of Women in Neo- Vaishnavism in Assam
This paper looks at the historical legacy and representation of women in Vaishnavism in Assam. By drawing on Vaishnava texts…
Tracing the Continuities of Violence in Bodoland
This paper attempts to understand violence between ethnic groups and its subsequent avoidance in the aftermath of incidents of sexual…
