Northeast India

The Yearnings of the Northeast

Sudeep Chakravarti

The region wants in. It must be heard and understood

Haobam Paban Kumar: Voice from the Valley

Chitra Ahanthem

A Manipuri director highlights the faultlines of his state in a unique bilingual film

Conflict and Concord

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Despatches from a fractured land

Normalising the Northeast

Siddharth Singh

There was a case for reviewing AFSPA and removing the law selectively but it may still be premature to repeal it

Feast of the Dead

Rini Barman

Blurring the boundaries between the real and the surreal in Meghalaya

Memory Keeper

Rini Barman

The shadow of insurgency in the Northeast

Fear of the Foreigner

Patricia Mukhim

The Citizenship Amendment Act and the Northeast exceptionalism

The ambitious Kalandan Corridor project financed by New Delhi that links Myanmar and the Northeast is in peril. The current deadlock endangers Indian interests in the region and efforts to uplift the people of trouble-hit areas of the eastern neighbour

The New Homebodies of the Northeast

Sonali Acharjee

From smart advertising for local tea to promoting the perfect selfie spot under a bridge made of living roots, the young are giving rural Meghalaya a modern twist