Category: Culture

This article was originally published on Rest of World in July 2024. Below is a longer version. Creators from tribes in north-east India hope these YouTube videos will help break down harmful stereotypes that have kept them isolated from the rest of the country. In the video that made him famous, Apollos Kent is barefoot, […]

Shops packed with little known ingredients from the seven sister states are feeding not just its people, but the curiosity of Bangaloreans He calls it the Frankenstein sauce — a fiery red chutney that “packs a goddamn wallop”, with a touch of Korean Gochujang and an abundance of fermented Naga chillies. When last December, chef […]

Guwahati is a city of malls, nightclubs and pride parades as much as leaf-fringed sleepy neighbourhoods where the traditional middle-class once led contained lives. It is also a city where personal freedoms come up against the moral police on TV. Two years ago, on an ordinary Sunday morning in February, a corner of Dighalipukhuri, a […]

Northeast Lightbox shines the light on Assam’s little-known feminist history by documenting the story of the Tezpur Mahila Samiti  One morning in July 1948, a group of women convened somewhere in the quaint riverside town of Tezpur in central Assam. They met often but the outcome of this meeting was unlike any other: a stream […]

Dohgaon Kalardiya is just another village in Assam, with a cast of dreamers and doers. Now, one filmmaker and a band of children are telling its story to the world. When they first saw the boys from the neighbouring village “make music” with a guitar made of thermocol at a school function, Manabendra Das and […]