Common ailments such as cold, cough, diarrhea, and fever are frequently brought up in general discussions about health and disease. Known to be generally harmless, these symptoms and illnesses are ...

A couple of weeks ago, a friend, Valentine Sohtun, shared a 2015 article with me titled ‘An Ethnographic Exploration of the Lyngam Ethnic Community in Bangladesh’ written by Nur Mohammad Majumder, Lye ...

He was the son of the soil, the Cherrapunji poet of rains and rainbow, and the poet of the limbo-land. Born to Hag Tongper and Lyngkien Tham in 1873, he struggled hard to study, become a high school ...

Land acquisition has been a highly contentious issue in various parts of India and our State. The National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) has been facing ...

Rabindranath Tagore and Rudyard Kipling never met each other but their admirers often hailed them together in the newsstand. Both are contemporary Indians. Tagore (1861-1941) and Rudyard Kipling (1865 ...

Indigenous games are recreational activities that originated from a particular cultural group, community or people. These games are different from mainstream sports, which are regulated by ...

SHILLONG: Folklore says the original Khasi script was swallowed by a person while crossing a river. But now it is known that the original copy of the script, which remains undeciphered, is kept in a ...

Glenn C Kharkongor Our fragile heritage of tribal folk tales, loved by wide-eyed children, and full of ancestral wisdom, is now nestled in the safe hands of the Sauramandala Foundation. A young team ...

By Prasanta Talukdar Nartiang has an important place in history of Meghalaya. It is famous for two historic structures. One is a simple but important Durga temple and other is the largest collection ...

For Indian lottery players, the last ten years have been particularly fortunate, as several of them have won both national and international jackpots. Some of them have joined India’s largest lottery ...

Many articles have been written about Behdieñkhlam, but it is not possible to describe the different facets of this great festival in one article or even in a single one book. Many a times the ...