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…