Folk Tales of Assam in Manuscript Painting: A Gendered Retelling This essay is a graphic narration of three folk stories from Assam, originally compiled by writer Lakshminath Bezbaroa. The author…
Tales from Gaili: A Selection of the Zeliang Tribe’s Folklore and Children’s Tales The paper is an attempt to present the diverse oral narratives of the Zeliang community in Nagaland. These folktales from…
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…
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…
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…