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Our contemporary political foes are utilitarian fixers. They constitute a crafty, marauding band. Mushrooming like festering weed, they are particularly severe on all forms of political art.
To say that the article published by The Northeast Today about the relationship between ‘African nationals’ and ‘North-Eastern women’ is drivel would be to do injustice to drivel.
Ka lamkhmat halor ka jingthoh shaphang kaei ka Panchayati Raj da ka Raiot: Wat la ka Dorbar Thaw Ain (Parliament) ka Ri India, lyngba ka…
While driving back home in evening, the remark “How much free time does Modi, our honourable prime minister and his cabinet have to impose such bans?” kept buzzing in my head
Ankush Saikia, chronicler of Shillong’s dark secrets offers up a chapter from his latest Thriller – Laimu, Drugs, Women and a deal somewhere near Myanmar
A far greater threat to the jaidbynriew is within and not from outside. The external fear is an alibi so that the internal problems are not exposed. There is self denial and pretentiousness of the real problems. All problems are blamed on the mynder ri (outsider)
What US Diplomatic Cables leaked by Wikileaks reveal about Uranium mining and other issues in Meghalaya
What drives The Northeast Today to be a Racist magazine? Are they stupid? Gertrude Lamare goes behind the dangers of clickbait racism
Jean Drèze examines the curious absence of Anarchism from Indian revolutionary discourse and possibilities of a space for anarchist ideas in the matrix of Indian resistance cultures
Bamboo Shoots – a film by Steven Ao about a young boy and his mother troubles | Nagamese with English subs | 10 mins
Parvin Sultana examines the politics behind giving citizenship to Bangladeshi Hindus and asks what it means for Assam
Inner Line Permit – a line which produced the border between hill and valley of Manipur in the colonial times might result in reinforcing the already existing fissures. Deepak Naorem on ILP demand in Manipur
Remembering Ma Hoping Stone Lyngdoh, the original radical of the Hill State Movement and and an uncompromising opponent of Uranium mining in Meghalaya
On Shillong ‘ban’ – Raiot interviews Digital Suicide and also want you to listen to their song #AKHUNI
On 28th August 2015, Digital Suicide, were prevented from performing in Clod9, weekend retreat of the elite of the Crap Rock Capital of India called Shillong. Listen to their song #NOSTATENOREST
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Gertrude Lamare enquires into the lack of women elders and pastors in the Presbyterian Church in Khasi and Jaintia Hills
Ka Lamphrang Halor ka article 371 da ka RAIOT Kumno ban synshar hi katkum ka tynrai ne thymmei sainpyrkhat bad ban iada bad kyntiew ia ka…
Ka Lamphrang Halor ka article 371 da ka RAIOT Kumno ban synshar hi katkum ka tynrai ne thymmei sainpyrkhat bad ban iada bad kyntiew ia ka…
With some sections of Meghalaya demanding special provisions for the state under Article 371 of the constitution, shouldn’t we read what Article 371 says?
Scratchy gramophone recordings done for The Linguistic Survey of India in 1928-29. Listen to our ancestors speaking Khasi, Pnar and War
Now that the Supreme Court of India ordered that AADHAR is not be made mandatory, will the Govt. of Meghalaya stop advertising/blackmailing the citizens to register themselves and their biometrics for the ‘number of the beast’?
[ Spectre of computers haunt school education in Meghalaya. With scam ridden tablet distribution to glorified film screens called Smart board, this piece by David…
In May this year, I attended a panel discussion on the Village Administration bill, held in Dinam hall, Jaiaw. There were representatives from State, members of…
Doh shaiñ pyllon / Doh kpu / Beef Balls 1. Buy Beef thats meaty without bones prefer ‘khmat lybong’ or ‘middle part of pyllon’. 2. Grind…
A VERY SHORT GUIDE TO URANIUM MINING AND NUCLEAR POWER
With the government trying to re-start its attempts to mine Uranium in Meghalaya – a basic faq about the impact of Uranium mining
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