Hundreds Go Missing in India's North East

For records, law and order situation has improved a lot in India's North East region of late. There are fewer killings, fewer attacks and fewer people wounded. Now, just when you are all tempted to say ‘how wonderful!’, comes the news: there are people vanishing, in...

Koreanization of Nagaland: A Report truly Unheard

Wokha of Nagaland is just another hill town of the North Eastern India with the usual picture of poor civic facilities and rich tribal traditions. Like the rest of the region, people here are emotional about three things – forest, land and ethnic traditions. And like the...

HORNBILL FESTIVAL 2009 IN KOHIMA,INDIA ON 2ND DECEMBER 2009

Tribal Chang women’s perform in from of their morung on the second day the annual Hornbill festival at the Naga Heritage village outskirts of Kohima, the capital city of India’s north eastern state of Nagaland...

Bray hard: Know your elections

By Al NgullieIn Nagaland, you know it is already election time when every politician in the street suddenly happens to recognize you as his long-lost cousin’s first-wife’s maternal uncle’s younger brother’s Science lecturer’s third husband’s grandmother’s fourth...

NEIP & Smile Train help 2 more Indian children with cleft palates

One of our projects, The North East India Project, has recently partnered with Smile Train, a non-profit helping children with cleft palates.According to the Smile Train: "Every year 35,000 children in ...

Frustrated Indian soldier killeges five colleagues, one senior

Frustration is constantly on the rise in Indian soldiers posted in troubled parts of the country, as the incidents of shooting colleagues by soldiers is growing for the past few years. In the latest such incident, a soldier of Assam Rifles killed five colleagues and a...

Discredible India

"These 10 young men had the Indian Police, Black Cat Team and army by their necks for three days. Stupidity is one vice which should not be attributed to them. Take one look at the terrorist caught on camera; he could pass for a south Indian low budget film hero, clean shaven...

Mirroring life in the conflict zone

Stories have a way of reaching out and conveying like no other communication forms. Temsula Ao in These Hills Called Home poignantly tells the less apparent story of what it’s like in Nagaland.

2006 North-East India Project

-Announcing the 2006 North-East India Project by Jason K. Powershttp://india.jkpphoto.com/ In November of 2004, six members of an organization called PhotoMission, Inc. went to India for three weeks. We had...

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