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By Hoihnu Hauzel — February 7, 2019
By Sharanya Deepak — October 3, 2018
By Ninglun Hangal — August 16, 2018
By Hoihnu Hauzel  — March 15, 2018
By The NE Stories — December 19, 2017
By Hoihnu Hauzel — April 13, 2017
By Raghavendra Madhu — March 8, 2017
By Ninglun Hanghal — February 9, 2017
By Hoihnu Hauzel  — September 21, 2016
By Ninglun Hanghal — September 6, 2016
By Robin Hibu — July 23, 2016
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Category: People

Hoihnu Hauzel   -   February 7, 2019
He could have been a footballer or a musician. As a kid growing up in Manipur’s little hamlet called Samu Lam Lan, Onler Karong took to football early on. It was something he learnt to master as a kid running amok around the village playground. Much later, in college in Shillong, he played for Customs […]
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Sharanya Deepak   -   October 3, 2018
When you eat your own food, it brings you closer to home When Lulu, or Landimliu Pheiga Gangmei was growing up in Manipur, her favourite dish was dal and rice. “We were a large family of eight, we didn’t have spreads of meat and rice everyday. My favouritefood, possibly because we ate it most frequently, […]
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Ninglun Hangal   -   August 16, 2018
Muktamani Moirangthem couldn’t have foreseen that a chance repairing of her daughter’s torn shoe by knitting onto its sole would someday give her a career option – of becoming a much sought-after shoemaker and designer. Today, the 50-plus mother of four manufactures hand-knitted woollen shoes that are sold all over the world under the brand […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   March 15, 2018
It’s raining incessantly in Shillong. However, it is not unusual or unexpected around May. In fact, in a state which holds the record of the heaviest rainfall in the world, this pitter-patter is normal and life goes on. For Shillong’s living music icon, Lou Majaw, such a weather only makes him more creative. In a […]
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The NE Stories   -   December 19, 2017
In the last decade, a quiet movement at the grassroots has been changing things in some of India’s Northeast’s villages. A petite warrior has been at the forefront of an anti-trafficking movement in the state in particular and the Northeast andNorth Bengal in generalscaling up to Myanamar,Nepal and Bangladesh over the last six years. Hasina […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   April 13, 2017
Every year in the months of March-April, Dirang, a sleepy hamlet in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Kameng district, comes alive with a lot of sound and action. This is the time when it plays host to Arunachal Festival of Speed (AFOS), a motorsport event which combines three different types of off-road racing like Auto Cross, Rally […]
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Raghavendra Madhu   -   March 8, 2017
Old Galo songs don’t play on radio anymore. I ask Mikom to sing MogeDoji, MartoKamdag orMibiNyadu, who the locals say sings better than LataMangeshkar. I hear most children sing Bollywood; it’s cool. Who sings in Galo? Everybody has their versions of folk tales yann and kaben songs at weddings, own ways of speaking Galo, code […]
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Ninglun Hanghal   -   February 9, 2017
Lamka, a lovely town in Churachandpur district in Manipur, looks picture perfect with rolling hills, ample sunshine, wispy clouds and Swiss-inspired cottages. In what is otherwise a quiet, unassuming area of Lamka that’s reeling under the upcoming election fever, we find a buzz outside Tunnu Bakes & Cakes, a concept bakery that’s becoming the hot […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   September 21, 2016
Deep inside Sikkim, students of a nondescript government school, led by their headmaster, are quietly nurturing their surrounding and redefining India’s pet mission, Swachh Bharat, even as they find their own interpretation of solid waste management. In the last six decades of its existence, the Government Secondary School, Lingchom, has never had students who cared […]
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Ninglun Hanghal   -   September 6, 2016
Bamboo has a special place in Ritu Varuni’s life. For the past 18 years, Varuni has been extensively researching, developing and using bamboo to create artefacts as well as in buildings that she makes as an architect. The trained architect from the Institute of Environmental Design, D.C PatelSchool of Architecture, Gujarat,has represented India at a […]
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Robin Hibu   -   July 23, 2016
Whenever I go home to the Northeast, I’m seized with nostalgic childhood memories. This beautiful part of India is the place of my birth. I’m engulfed with a melancholic feeling every time I go back but since Delhi is now the place of work, I do whatever I can to help settle my friends from […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   May 1, 2016
When Vivek Agarwal acquired The Belgachi Tea Estate in 2010, a 2,500 acre tea garden and tea factory in Siliguri, West Bengal, it had already been declared a sick unit. Today, six years later, the company manufactures 1.5 million kgs of tea every year and generates employment for more than 1500 people. But this achievement […]
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