The majority of people possessing good sensehave been protesting the Olympics boxing competition where a biological male fought a woman boxer in a match and battered her with such brutality that she quit forty-
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Without design, a number of stories have landed in my laptop. They centre around the Japanese Invasion of our hills and its aftermath. War is never a quiet thing. It makes its appearance loudly, and leaves behi
On the 4rth July, 2024, the 80th Anniversary Commemoration Service of the Battle of Kohima will be held at York Minster in the UK. It will be held at Dean’s Garden where participants will gather around the 2n
A word is being repeated by random people on the streets, and also at serious interviews. It is sometimes the answer to the favourite question of interviewers: What is your message to young people of today? Or,
Echu Konyak’s ‘Folktales of the Konyak Nagas’ is a slim volume of tales reflecting migration narratives, animal and human tales in a universe where stones and trees are animate and participatory in the de
Cradling Memories of My Land, 80 pp, INR 299, Red River.‘Cradling Memories of My Land’ is the volume of 79 poems by Jim Wungramyao Kasom published by Red River. Jim and his brother Themreichan are beautiful
Oshikimthi, if you have not heard it before, means thank you in Sümi. It is a beautiful word. I would like to emphasise how gentle the sounds, ‘sh’ and ‘th’ are especially when used in this word. No on
We climbed Pulie Badze in early March. Six townies. But it was very doable. With a three-year-old in tow, who had to be carried halfway, we still managed to reach the peak within forty minutes. The villag
A friend in Delhi had several Myki products in her kitchen. Dry Ginger powder, dried Bamboo shoot, Anishi, Gooseberries cooked in sugar and dried, dried Roselle, wood apples, turmeric, chilli and so on. I
Itu kiman mithai ase?The new currency feels very much like a conspiracy between my neighbourhood grocery and the pharmacy. I have discovered that the paan shop is also part of it, and so is the ration dukan. Th
A friend from the UK was planning a trip to the Northeast and had many questions. He was super curious about Naga food, mostly because he had read so much about the (in) famous king chilly. Is it really as hot
Celebrating Us was the theme of a seminar on Naga women and their traditional attire. When we think carefully about it, Naga women are to be lauded for the beautifully designed textiles and traditional cloths t
At the end of November, many years ago, an aunt invited us to her Christmas feast. Her rationale was this: ‘I have realised that by the time Christmas comes around, we all get tired of eating the nice food, s
A few days after October 7, the female president of a Jewish synagogue in Detroit was stabbed to death outside her home. Two weeks later, a young Jewish woman was murdered in her home in Lyon, France and
When the telephone first came to our town, we had to learn how to use it. Not just the dialling of numbers and recognising the different sounds that indicated that the call was going through or the annoying pip
Life is not even a slice from eternity. Not a window, it is so much smaller. And therefore, infinitely precious. We lost a family member last week. 42 years is not a long life at all. A loving father and what s
A man now long dead once told us, ‘You become homesick for the place where your placenta is buried. I lived all my life in Dimapur but I get homesick for Khwünoria because that is where I was born and my pla
I heard that climate scientists in certain countries are very interested in finding out more about indigenous knowledge, and making use of it. They are interested in how indigenous people take their cue from th
On the net, there is a single photo of a village which shows wet roads winding around houses with tin roofs and a caption saying it is the village of Jessami. Asking for information on this border village which
The Baptist High album has some old photographs of the area called Mission Compound where the school first held its classes. In some of the photographs, the solid structure of what was called the mahogany house
