Content: Poetics and politics of the ‘everyday’: Engaging with India’s northeast (Issue 53)
Guest Editorial
Poetics and Politics of the ‘everyday’: Engaging with India’s Northeast
Bhumika R and Suranjana Choudhury
Essays
“Multipartner Mud Dances”: The Uneventful Entanglement of Humans and Animals in Two Assamese Poems
Amit R. Baishya
Indigenous Cultures of the North Eastern Region of India: Revival and Preservation
Esther Syiem
Popular Music Subculture and the Northeast Youth
KB Veio Pou
All Khasi Women Need Representation
Laiamon Naomi Nengnong
Memories of Songs: Words Lost and Found
Lalremtluangi
Queering the Everyday: Northeast India and Queering Experiences
Lede-e-Miki Pohshna
A Day in Barkhola: Memory, History and the Fading Everyday in India’s Northeast
Rongili Biswas
Promises of the Kwai: Discovering Voices that Sing
Sebanti Chatterjee
The Danger of a Single Story: Northeast India
Z. D. Lalhmangaihzauva
Creative Interventions
Five Poems by Ananya Guha
Ananya Guha
Short Story: Caring
Gankhu Sumnyan
An excerpt from a forthcoming novel, ‘Funeral Nights’
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Three Poems by Lalnunsanga Ralte
Lalnunsanga Ralte
Two Poems by Nabina Das
Nabina Das
Four Poems by Namrata Pathak
Namrata Pathak
Two Poems by Rimi Nath Rimi Nath
Poem: Laitumkhrah
Robin S Ngangom
Short Story: Sunset in the Hills
Shikhandin
Poem: Alu Pitika
Sumana Roy
Photo-Essays
Archery and its Aesthetics in Meghalaya
Anand Sachin
Re-imagining working women: Glimpses from Northeast India
Pfokrelo Kapesa
“I will have my bread”: The waning significance of spirituality in the hills of eastern Himalayas
Supromit Maiti
Picture Credit: Aniqa Tansim Taba
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