Mizoram

Rodingliana looking at Aizawl's landscape on a cloudy day-language
September 17, 2024
I travelled from Mizoram to Assam to learn the Hindi language

I am a documentary film-maker from Damparengpui village in Mizoram’s Mamit district. I grew up speaking Bru at home, which is the language of the Bru community that I belong…

A man weaving a bamboo basket_bamboo handicraft
August 27, 2024
A Bru handicrafts maker laments the loss of traditions in Mizoram

Biakthanga is a bamboo handicrafts maker from Damparengpui village in Mizoram’s Mamit district. A member of the Bru community, he has been producing items of daily use such as nohkhai…

April 27, 2020
Locked down in Aizawl

In my locality, Chaltlang in Aizawl, Mizoram, every shop (even the ones that sell essential goods like vegetables and groceries) is shut down in the mornings, and only one store…

March 10, 2020
The oil monopoly

Gaurab Talukdar and Lalvohbika Hrahsel are fellows at Green Hub.