In Assam, the Mising community has adapted its architecture to cope with annual floods

Their flood-resilient houses, called chang ghors, stand several feet above the ground on bamboo stilts.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Jan 25, 2023 · 09:30 pm

A community displaced 25 years ago still waits for land

In 2020, the Centre trumpeted a resettlement plan in Tripura for Brus who fled violence in Mizoram in 1997. On the ground, little has changed for the community.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Jul 13, 2022 · 09:00 am

In Assam, locals and forest officials have joined hands to save elephants from train hits

Rapid urbanisation around Deepor beel, the only Ramsar site in the state, has led to habitat fragmentation of tuskers.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Mar 20, 2022 · 09:30 pm

As Manipur loses its green cover, a man has turned a dry hill into a lush forest

The jungle now has numerous varieties of plants, among them 30 species of bamboo and 20 species of orchids.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Oct 23, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Two young women in Nagaland are on a crusade against e-waste

Sowete-u K Letro and Bendangwala Walling have been sensitising people since they started the state’s first electronic waste collection centre in 2018.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Jun 17, 2021 · 07:30 pm

On Assam’s tea plantations, a water crisis has made it difficult to contain the spread of Covid-19

More than 200 workers from at least two tea gardens in Dibrugarh district were infected with the coronavirus in early May.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· May 30, 2021 · 09:30 pm

A Bengaluru couple wants to save India’s tribal music – with a little help from urban artists

In their first project, Piyush Goswami and Akshatha Shetty have focused on Assam’s Biate tribe.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Jan 19, 2019 · 11:30 am

In Shillong, hip-hop artists are singing tales of poverty, unemployment and a fading language

Acts such as Khasi Bloodz, Kingdom Culture and Mawlai Emcees are trying to give a voice to the youth of the region.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Sep 27, 2018 · 11:30 am

In manga-crazy Nagaland, a young woman’s comic series has made her a minor star

Thejakhrienuo Yhome’s ‘Carnaby Black’ is about ‘whimsical magic’.

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

· Jun 07, 2018 · 11:30 am