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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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…
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 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…
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 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 Mizoram bamboo shoot economy: preserving a taste that travels
The fermented bamboo shoot of Mizoram — sour, funky, and the secret layer in a hundred…