The Naga shawl economy: how a wedding garment became a global fashion line
The shawls of the Naga tribes — each pattern a language of clan and achievement —…
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State: Nagaland
The Zeme-Naga people of Peren: a farming festival that doubles as a peace treaty
The Hega festival of the Zeme-Naga people is many things at once: a harvest feast, a…
The Tizu river rafting circuit: Nagaland’s newest adventure tourism bet
The Tizu river, which drops through the hills of Kiphire district on its way to the…
The Pochury youth of Meluri: a hill tribe’s answer to outmigration
Meluri, a Pochury town near the Myanmar border, watched its young people leave for decades —…
The Naga-run homestay network of Khonoma: tourism’s hardest test
Khonoma’s homestay network — 30 households, a common kitchen and a strict visitors’ code — runs…
Nagaland’s first legal distillery: a Naga rice spirit with a protected name
For generations, Naga homes brewed zu — the rice beer that lubricates every festival and negotiation…
The Great Indian Hornbill count: Nagaland’s biggest bird census
The great hornbill — the bird whose silhouette crowns Nagaland’s biggest festival — is the subject…
The Naga arm-wrestling circuit: a sport of tea shops becomes a state championship
For decades, arm-wrestling in Nagaland was a tea-shop sport: a wooden table, a challenge, and the…
The Naga dish that defines a festival: smoked pork and the calculus of feasting
At the Hornbill Festival’s food village, one stall reliably draws the longest queue: the smoked pork,…
The Naga youth council elections: a village democracy that never sleeps
In Nagaland’s villages, the youth council — the bachelors’ association that keeps the water running, the…