Aizawl’s reading habit: how Mizoram keeps winning India’s literacy rankings
Ask anyone in Aizawl why Mizoram consistently tops India’s literacy tables and the answer is rarely…
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Khongjom Day: remembering the last stand of the Anglo-Manipur War
Every year on April 23, thousands climb the hill at Khongjom where the last battle of…
Mizoram’s chess circuit: why a state of 1.2 million keeps producing national masters
Mizoram, a state of 1.2 million people, has produced more national chess masters per capita than…
The student movements of the Northeast: from 1970s agitations to 2026’s campus politics
The student movements of the Northeast have rewritten the region’s political map — from the Assam…
Arunachal’s tribal councils meet the 21st century: digitising customary law
The kebang and nyeder councils of Arunachal’s tribes, which have settled village disputes for centuries, are…
The Bodo-language film wave: Kokrajhar’s new cinema tells its own stories
For decades, Bodo-language cinema meant documentaries funded by cultural bodies. A new generation is making features…
Tripura’s separatist-era generation: how a peace dividend is reshaping the state
Tripura’s insurgency-era violence ended with the accords of the 1990s and 2000s, and the generation born…
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 Hmar people of the Barak valley: a community between borders and dialects
The Hmar people live across Manipur, Mizoram and Assam — a community divided by state borders…
The Tipra Motha’s rise: how Tripura’s oldest identity movement became its newest party
The Tipra Motha, born of a cultural revival movement among Tripura’s indigenous communities, has in a…