For years, like a homing pigeon I’d return to a small salon In the backlanes of my home The door opened with tinkling bells Where beyond a pink curtain, red dragons flew across the wall I surrendered myself to the gaggle of girls With smiling eyes ...Read More
From a helpless young girl being pawed by a pack of hounds in Guwahati, the media focus has shifted now to a sinewy Manipuri woman punching her way to international attention. Some shift. I wonder how the powerful women competing ...Read More
A few days back I found a petition forwarded by Richard Loitam's parents in my inbox. The same Richard who was beaten brutally to death a few nights ago in a reputed Bangalore college. A few months in a college ...Read More
I was in the first batch of inward fellows of the National Foundation of India's 'Northeast Media Exchange Programme'. It was 1996-97 and I went to Mizoram. My subject was 'Changing traditional patterns and the youth of Mizoram'. Though this ...Read More
“Democracy,” began our political-science teacher in her high-pitched nasal voice and her staccato accent, “Is a government of the ‘peeple,’ by the ‘peeple,’ for the ‘peeple.” I remember nothing else. I did mug it all up though, that and the rest ...Read More
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. Norman Maclean A friend said to me on my return from Assam in India's North East, “There is a saying up there that goes 'If you cross the Brahmaputra one ...Read More
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