I live just three hours away from what history calls the City of Speaking Stones. But call it shortage of time or bad management, but I hadn’t been able to visit Tezpur, even though I have always been attracted towards it. Finally last summer, I set off on my semeste...

Dharmaraj Joshi tells us about Wangala, aka the Festival of a Hundred Drums, the resonating festival of the Garos of Meghalaya

Among the many marvels that have metamorphosed the state of Meghalaya into a rich ...

“A compliant electronic media catapulted a largely unknown Anna Hazare into national consciousness but why did it shy away from focussing on Irom Sharmila’s decade-long fast in Manipur?” asks Nazneen Hussain

So you think that the Government con...

For centuries, the Ahoms of Assam have represented a distinctive community and culture. Though their feats weren’t probably of the ‘Spartacus’ kinds, but the romance of the ‘Ahom Raj’ still has faint traces in t...