Abundance: Living with a Forest (2024) is a biography of foraging, forest, and jhum cultivation in Nagaland, which is part of the Indo-Myanmar Biodiversity h...

According to colleagues and friends, Dr Nabila Sadiq, a PhD scholar from JNU, was teaching and helping students with their thesis until April 20.

Animal rights groups say a ban on the sale of dog meat in Nagaland is a milestone.

“Water has memory, it remembers the paths it used to once flow along,” said Dr K Soman, about the destructive path that water and debris took immediately after

Historian Romila Thapar on the history of dissent in India – from Vedic Brahmanism to Shaheen Bagh.

Guwahati, Sep 15: Rajni Basumatary, a filmmaker and actor is proud of her latest work – Gorai Phakhri or Wild Swan, a Bodo language film. The film deals with patriarchy that is prevalent in...

Adivasis and their allies are being persecuted for protesting development that destroys the environment

On a summer morning in August, Tsumungi and Pithunglo are off to the bamboo grooves in the forests of Ralan, a village in Wokha District of Nagaland. They ca...

Creators from tribes in Northeast India hope these YouTube videos will help break down harmful stereotypes that have kept them isolated from the rest of the country.

A story of land-rights and militarisation in Nagaland. Words by Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues. Photographs by Rendo Shitiri. Illustration by Neivikhotso Chaya.

Comes after Pitt Rivers Museum in England engaged in an “ethical review” of their permanent displays, with a bid to “decolonise” their collections.

Guwahati, Sep 27: The All Dimasa Students Union has condemned Aimee Baruah's directorial-Semkhor for misrepresentation of the Dimasa culture. In a letter issued by Uttam Langthasa, President, All...

Popular and academic discourses on Northeast India have for long been centred around the themes of conflicts, ethnicity and insurgency. This is not surprising given that the region has been seen as a...

8th August, 2024, Assam: Manohar Pegu, a member of National Alliance of Peoples' Movements (NAPM)and Ritupan Pegu, a member of Greater Kaziranga Land and

From Goan Catholics to East Indians and the Naga Christians, here's your lowdown on how diverse groups across the country bring in the year-end festival

The support for Myanmarese refugees is strong in Mizoram because of a long and deeply shared cultural history, a connection that cannot be ignored

India is currently experiencing a major transformation in its oilseed sector, marked by ambitious plans to expand the cultivation of African oil palm. Yet this grand plan casts a shadow over the...

This is the first part of a special series from Bastar. It recounts how an early morning ambush on a Maoist meeting in Bijapur spilled over into the villages.

At a time when it was practically unimaginable, Kaka Iralu critically examined Nagaland’s relationship with India. His anarchist spirit of inquiry serves well to illuminate pressing questions of the...

More focus on non-English language reports would be good for conservation and help close the gap between global north and south, argue researchers

"I am laying claim to the sovereignty of my stories": Joshua Whitehead discusses being in the public eye as a queer Indigenous author.

Incidentally, after the disciplinary inquiry was initiated against the supervisor, Sasanka Perera, who teaches sociology and is a founding member of the Sociology department at SAU, resigned from the...

One of them, a 21-year-old woman, was ‘brutally gang raped’, a police complaint says. The police confirm an FIR has been filed.

The Nagaland government’s recent ban on the sale of dog meat has not only polarised conversations about what is and what is not food but also shows how we have turned animals’ bodies into battlegro...

While it is called ‘axone’ in parts of Nagaland, fermented soya bean is cooked with, eaten and known by different names in different parts of Northeast India.

"I think my career is this series of humiliations where I feel so stupid all the time."

Birsa Munda is on many stamp covers – 1988 to 2023. There are none of Jaipal Singh Munda, member of India’s Constituent Assembly, Olympic gold medalist, and writer.

When Techi Nimi remembers her years at boarding schools, it is laced with memories of hunger. She longed for Arunachalee food, which was never served.

Carolyn Smith is a new assistant professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley and an enrolled descendant of the Karuk tribe. Her life’s work forever changed years ago after a trip to the Klamath River.

In resource-rich Meghalaya, India, the demand for coal is transforming the environment and the people who depend on it. Coal mine owners are prospering from ...

This Indigenous Dialogue is part of a weeklong workshop on repatriation and healing, held at the University of Melbourne.