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By Khumi Tonsing Burton — July 29, 2025
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By Ninglun Hanghal   -   July 7, 2026
Nagaland’s literary landscape is undergoing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Home to one of India's highest literacy rates — ranging from over 80 per cent to above 95 per cent in some districts—the state has long nurtured a strong reading culture, aided by English being both its official language and the primary medium of education. […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   April 23, 2026
For a long time, coffee was not associated with India’s Northeast. The region was defined instead by the tea estates of Assam, and by a drinking culture shaped by what was already familiar: chai, cha, singpi, among others. Tea was made with milk, or simply with a dash of homegrown leaves—often called “black tea,” taken […]
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Team NE Stories   -   December 22, 2025
EIMIGO started with a question that had long gone unanswered: if the Northeast produces athletes, artists, and skilled professionals at national and international levels, why has it rarely produced a premium consumer brand of its own? Talent and creativity existed, but representation in a product or brand that could carry the identity, pride, and potential […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   October 17, 2025
Ukhrul is a hill district in Manipur, home to the Tangkhul Nagas. The road from Imphal winds through pine forests and low-hanging clouds. It is about 79 kilometres of curves and calm that take just over an hour and a half to travel. It’s a place known for many things — its sharp winters, its […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   September 17, 2025
Some stories stay with us because someone took the time to tell them. For Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton, that “someone” was often her father, a gifted storyteller who could hold an evening still with a single tale. Sitting with her siblings in Dimapur, a town then now a smart city in Nagaland quite far from their […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   August 28, 2025
Few bartenders in India have shaped the nation’s cocktail culture quite like Yangdup Lama. Born in the village of Gayabari, a quaint tea garden village near Kurseong in the Darjeeling hills, Lama’s journey into the world of spirits and storytelling began far from the polished counters of urban cocktail bars. After completing his hotel management […]
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Team NE Stories   -   August 25, 2025
Studio Ngote is a story of friendship, heritage, and quiet revolution. Co-founded by designers Elizabeth Darsiempuii and Zosangliani (Zosangi), Studio Ngote was born from a shared vision—to honour the richness of Mizoram’s textile traditions while reimagining them for a changing world. Nestled in Luangmual, a peaceful residential area just 30 minutes from central Aizawl, the […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   August 7, 2025
Some days, you are likely to find Avantika Haflongbar pounding a fiery chutney made from sun-dried fish, green chillies, and wild herbs and methodically layering the ingredients into a Shamtho and working them with a Rimin. These traditional wooden tools, passed down through generations, are not just functional objects. They are keepers of memory. On […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   July 31, 2025
In the highlands of Meghalaya, food is not just nourishment, it's inheritance. The rhythms of Khasi and Garo kitchens follow the pace of the land. Recipes are passed not on paper but through memory, gesture, and repetition mostly from grandmother to mother, from mother to child. A dish like Dohneiiong, pork cooked with black sesame […]
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Khumi Tonsing Burton   -   July 29, 2025
I met the man who would become my husband in the most unexpected way on an Air India flight to Beirut in late 1973. I was a cabin crew member, and he was one of the passengers. The flight was turbulent, and I was focused on just getting through the service without getting sick, flying […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   July 29, 2025
There’s an old photo of her small, focused, and standing on a kitchen stool, grating cheese beside a steaming pot. She was barely tall enough to reach the counter, but she belonged there. “She inherited a cupboard full of my cookbooks,” recalls her mother, Dorothy Phanbuh, with an obvious pride. “When I was baking Christmas […]
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Hoihnu Hauzel   -   July 11, 2025
Himangshu Baruah grew up in Assam, where tourism often amounted to little more than a line on a government map or a seasonal influx of visitors to well-known spots like Kaziranga. Despite the region’s vast diversity spanning eight states, each rich in language, culture, and terrain, organised travel opportunities have remained scarce, and even rarer […]
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