Arts

I didn’t enter academia for prestige. I entered it out of frustration. Too often, performers are misunderstood, misinterpreted, and undervalued by academic systems that prioritize theory over practice. By Marjing Mayanglambam…

A society that fails to honour the labour of art cheapens its own culture. True respect for an artiste means valuing not just the performance, but the person, their livelihood, their effort, and their right to fair treatment. By…

Samkhok celebrates the richness of the culture and tradition of the Tangkhul Nagas before the onset of Christianity. With every minute detail well-documented, Samkhok is an aide-mémoire of a unique indigenous way of life with a touch of the…

Byron on his search for his own lost ancestors danced before the shrine and deities of the Meitei and Chakpa sylvan Gods which naturally came to him. In doing so he felt a deep connection to his own remembered past, wanting dearly to pay…