From November 2017 to August 2018, the tigress has killed 39 animals. But for reasons best known to the villagers of Borobazar, she still roams, unscathed and free. When the tigress made her first kill — a cow, bound near the yard of one Forhan Daimari — the villagers of Borobazar in Kalaigaon in Assam’s […]
Category: Off-beat
From Mizoram, a ‘magical’ voice that plays cupid on Whatsapp
A Mizo crooner has an unusual side job: she’s a self-styled Whatsapp “artiste” whose voice notes are connecting young lovers across the hilly state To get by most of her life, Melody G Fanai, has worked an assortment of jobs: at 7, she sold fruits on the hilly roads of Aizawl; at 12, part of […]
A man disappears from a Manipur village, and returns 40 years later courtesy YouTube
But is homecoming the fairy tale it is made out to be? Khomdram Gambhir Singh is the most well-travelled man in Khumbong. He’sseen it all: the Qutb Minar in Delhi, the Taj Mahal in Agra, and the Gateway ofIndia in Mumbai. He’s seen things no one in his village, in a corner ofManipur, could dream […]
The story of a night: how a college turned into a jail during the Assam floods
As 80% of Assam was inundated, so was Dhubri District Jail. That meant turning a college into a jail in a couple of hours, escorting 409 prisoners through rising waters to it, in a town under a total blackout, and ensuring no one escaped The Deluge The sight that greeted him at Dhubri District Jail […]
The story of a day-long ‘marriage’
He is 15, she around 60. They got talking on the phone, resulting in a meeting, a ‘forced’ wedding and instant divorce. A month later… The groom When he finally got the phone — a second-hand Nokia base model, for just Rs 200 — he thought his fortune would change. He was 15, had never […]