2016 IN #SHILLONG & #MEGHALAYA AS SEEN BY ITS PREMIER GUTTERZINE
As we come from the land of the cleanest, highest, lowest, deepest, firstest, buromest, we need to confess to our very own claim to fame – RAIOT is the first online gutterzine of Bishop Cotton Road, Shillong. If the conversations in the Burom class sitting room are anything to go by, this gutter RAIOT view of the world is finally finding its calvinistic place in the far reaches of Meghalaya. So enjoy this curated award-winning best selection of 2016 writings (in North Europe) on Shillong.
Laugh at inappropriate moments
Monday, January 4 – Earthquake Endtimes Humour – a video by Jo, the Khasi guy
Friday, March 4 – [Breaking News] Haflong is the new Rock Capital of India
Tuesday, August 30 – Mawlynnong declared Photoshop Capital of Asia
Tuesday, December 6 – Watch MeECL transformer blow up in Laitumkhrah, Shillong
Friday, April 1 – (Revealed) “It was because of Shillong that RSS shifted from Khaki shorts to trousers”
Wednesday, April 13 – Shillong Earthquake Poem
Ask the obvious questions like, who is a Khasi?
Wednesday, February 17 – Is Indigenous the same as Minority? The curious case of the Seng Khasi/Sein Raij
Friday, February 19 – The Khasis as Hindus
Tuesday, January 19 – On Indigenous Question – a musical commentary
Friday, January 29 – On Khasi identity crisis
Monday, May 9 – #ChinkySong
Thursday, March 24 – When traditional marriage ceremony came back to Changpung village in Jaintia Hills
Wednesday, July 20 – Ka Alphabet Pnar bad ka Bor Natrai
Thursday, September 8 – Desiring a Lost Khasi Culture
Sunday, January 17 – CHRISTIANITY: A FORCE FOR GOOD IN MEGHALAYA?
Sunday, April 10 – Politics of Religion in Khasi-Jaintia Hills
Wednesday, March 16 – Beyond religious debates in Khasi-Jaintia Hills
Thursday, June 9 – Some questions for us Khasis
Shillong as a (C)Rap C(Rock) Capital & other hill station feel good stories
Wednesday, December 7 – Shillong: A Heartless City
Saturday, August 6 – (VIDEO) The Silent World of Mawlai’s Deprived
Wednesday, January 6 – Ode to my town
Wednesday, August 24 – When Khyndailad/Police Bazaar Burnt Down
Saturday, September 10 – Early Bengali Influences in the Commercial Heart of Shillong
Monday, October 3 – In praise of an impure Shillong
Saturday, January 9 – (EP1) Shillong Rock N Metal Scene feat. Plague Throat
Monday, April 18 – The Smart City of Shillong: a danger to Democracy?
Monday, January 18 – Shortcut
Wednesday, February 10 – Metal Mayhem – A documentary from Shillong
Wednesday, March 2 – Yawn Capital of India – Shillong Music Scene
Thursday, December 22 – Jesus, Man Force Condoms & other Shillong flavours
Wednesday, April 27 – 200 meters to redemption : on Meghalaya wine store clampdown
Oh the world of egalitarian, well governed matrilineal Meghalaya
Friday, May 13 – (Panama Papers) Influential Meghalaya businessmen hide their wealth in offshore tax-havens
Wednesday, May 18 – Political Profiteering in Meghalaya
Monday, January 11 – How sick is Meghalaya’s Health System?
Saturday, March 19 – Supreme Court slams Meghalaya HC for taking Suo Motu Cognizance on Meghalaya Lokayukta Act 2014
Thursday, August 25 – Sickness of Meghalaya’s Health Sector
Saturday, October 1 – Outsourcing Development : Solution or the Problem?
Tuesday, April 12 – CMman vs. CEMman – a very Meghalaya story
Tuesday, March 29 – Shaphang ka jingshah batbor ha ki rynsan jong ka internet
Tuesday, April 5 – Selective outrage won’t stop rapes in ‘matrilineal’ Meghalaya
Thursday, October 13 – Long struggle to convict rapist coal baron Small Phawa
Saturday, June 4 – Water Woes in Meghalaya : Anatomy of a PHE Scam
Tuesday, June 7 – Sale! Sale! Sale! North East India for Sale!
Not so Secret Histories
Sunday, November 13 – Remember, remember the Churches of Shillong
Friday, January 29 – Was Thomas Jones the Father of Khasi Alphabet?
Monday, November 7 – A Short History of Khasi Comic Books
Saturday, March 12 – 1932 amateur film of Iewduh Shillong
Bad Tourist Guides and even worse tourist photocrappers
Sunday, July 31 – Ultimate Unsustainable Tourist guide to Meghalaya
Thursday, May 12 – Travel and its motives
Tuesday, August 16 – There can be no Monolith(ic) Festival of the Khasis
Saturday, May 21 – No one dies in the city during a festival
Sunday, January 24 – Games Khasis play
Friday, April 15 – Shillong through the lens of a 5MP mobile camera
Friday, April 29 – Lost in the Clouds : Tourism in Meghalaya
Thursday, October 13 – Hole in the Hill
Monday, October 24 – Roads that Cut: Traveling Ri Bhoi and Beyond
Saturday, June 25 – State Central Library Companion
Saturday, July 9 – Reviving River Myntdu, Reviving a lost culture
Wednesday, July 13 – Behdieiñkhlam: Reliving the stories
Wednesday, July 13 – Ka Phalang Jingmut Ha Ka Aiom Beh Dieiñ Khlam
Voyeurs & vultures
Tuesday, November 29 – “I don’t have a house, car, or bank balance”
Tuesday, June 14 – Move on Up
Friday, April 8 – UN Sun Kahan Hai? In search of UN Sun
Wednesday, October 26 – An Old Bearded Poet Walks the City
Sunday, June 19 – Memoirs of a Hawker’s son
Wednesday, August 10 – On the Chinkyness of Saif Ali Khan
Monday, June 27 – FOXTROT TANGO KHASI
Wednesday, June 29 – Prologue to ‘Ka Marynthing Rupa’ by Webster Davis Jyrwa
Wednesday, May 4 – Pijush Dhar doesn’t live in Shillong anymore
Saturday, May 7 – Why are we angry?
Saturday, May 28 – Why I Run?
Tuesday, July 19 – Why I ran Sohra/Cherrapunjee Marathon for Irom Sharmila?
Saturday, July 30 – Khasi Bloodz – SICKEST RHYMSTERS FROM SHILLONG
Tuesday, June 21 – Now listen to The Fentones from Shillong
Reach for your guns – culture comes
Wednesday, October 12 – ANIME pleasures in Shillong
Tuesday, July 5 – 10 Step Primer for budding (North East) Writers
Friday, October 28 – NH7 at Bhoirymbong – fest review and a few suggestions
Tuesday, January 26 – Which Homeland? A review of National award winning Khasi film Ri
Monday, April 18 – KICKING from the CORNER
Tuesday, October 11 – Football in the time of mass deception
Monday, May 23 – Not all Rappers are Lyricists
Saturday, October 15 – JOYS OF DRINKING (KOLKATA/SHILLONG)
Thursday, October 20 – A Defense of the Commons
Radioactive futures
Saturday, July 16 – Should Uranium be mined in Meghalaya?
Thursday, July 21 – Leave the Thlen of Uranium alone
Monday, July 11 – Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda (Khasi version)
Friday, July 29 – Meghalaya’s Uranium Curse
Saturday, July 16 – SHUT ‘UM DOWN – Playlist for Anti-Uranium Struggle in Meghalaya
Sunday, July 31 – Kolkata rappers RAP no to URANIUM MINING in Meghalaya
Tuesday, August 9 – Ngin jop ne ngin shah jop ( URANIUM )
Party of Malcontents
Wednesday, September 21 – Are the poor in Meghalaya lazy?
Thursday, May 19 – North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong Campus – a student’s eye view
Monday, October 10 – “This is a very historic moment for the student community in NEHU”
Wednesday, January 6 – In praise of Hawkers
Tuesday, November 8 – U Aadhaar, YM DONKAM
Saturday, November 26 – Citizen’s guide to the laws about Hawkers & Vendors
Sunday, November 27 – Can the Hawker issue be solved in Shillong?
Thursday, June 23 – Are Hawkers congesting Shillong?
Friday, June 17 – Why Saiden village in Meghalaya started its own library?
Thursday, June 30 – #OccupyUGC, Kiang Nangbah College, NEHU & Student Politics in Meghalaya
And that demonetised dkhar called Modi at the doors of our land
And finally, our unsung role in the disaster called ROCK ON 2
Saturday, February 20 – Did Rock On 2 plagiarise (Late) E. Brektist R. Wanswett’s famous Khasi song?
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