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…
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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…
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…
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…
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 —…
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…
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 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,…