Hornbill Festival enters its silver year with 74 tribes and a new night arena
The Hornbill Festival — Nagaland’s ten-day carnival of carnivals — opened at the Kisama heritage village…
Kohima’s first international film festival: stories from the hills find the big screen
Kohima’s first international film festival filled the city’s single multiplex and a converted school hall for…
Naga chilli makes its case for a GI tag as demand grows in Europe
The king chilli — bhut jolokia, the pepper that once scorched its way into the Guinness…
Hornbill International Motorcycle Rally revs up Nagaland’s off-season
The roar of 120 motorcycles filled Kohima’s Secretariat Road as the Hornbill International Motorcycle Rally set…
Nagaland’s Khonoma: the village that banned hunting and became a sanctuary
Khonoma, the Angami village that banned hunting in 2004, is proof that conservation can be an…
Dimapur’s poultry traders bet on cold chain as prices soar
Dimapur’s poultry market, the largest in Nagaland, has long been hostage to boom-and-bust cycles: glut in…
The Konyak villages of Mon: where headhunting history meets a tattoo revival
In the Konyak villages of Mon district, the last elders who earned facial tattoos as warriors…
Nagaland’s first all-women taxi cooperative hits the road in Kohima
When the horn sounded at Kohima’s bus station, the region’s first all-women taxi cooperative was in…
Nagaland’s Naga wrestling: the village sport that refuses to gentrify
In the paddy fields of Wokha district, Naga wrestling — a grip-and-toss contest with its own…
Nagaland’s millet revival: a lost grain returns to Naga plates
The millets that fed Naga villages for generations were pushed aside by rice and instant noodles…