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And here it is once again! APPLY! Alive in its 12th year only because of sheer madness and love for research students working on Northeast India. Timothy Khongsai thanks you, our resident poster designer and scholar. Please share it widely. The Naga pork in bambooshoot awaits us all.

Roots & Bridges is a safe and inclusive space to get feedback and learn from mentors and connect with fellow researchers working on Northeast India. Please apply!

This is such a cool thing that I've only just discovered. I'm not an ethnographer, but I hope academia thinks about transitioning toward a workshop-centric model to generate and support research instead of mega conference events at visa-deterrent locales in NA-Eur.

On 1st March, 2025, NESRC will celebrate its Silver Jubilee. Article out in the Haflong weekly: The Tribal Voice, remembering NESRC's 25 years of collaborative research, advocacy and community engagement in my home district, Dima Hasao. Visit thetribalvoice.in

Together with Dolly Kikon I'm editing the fall issue of roadsides tentatively titled "Foodways." You can find the call for papers here: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

Even as churches in Nagaland are battling s* predators masquerading as pastors, this piece on the importance of implementing policies for the protection of children in churches by Dolly Kikon comes to mind. Do read it! morungexpress.com/children-prote…

My journey with NESRC comes to a heartfelt close as a research associate with the release of our co-authored book, Politics of Land. Shaped by months of learning, hard work, quiet hopes, and shared dreams, it now stands fresh out of the press and into the world.

Wrote an article in The Arunachal Times on the Idu Mishmi community's cultural conservation model, a resistance to the state enclosure of Indigenous land. arunachaltimes.in/index.php/2025…

“A river cannot be managed in fragments. It must be understood in flow. Through flood songs. Through migration patterns. Through rituals that mark its changes. And to do that, we must listen to those who have lived with the river.” Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman 👏 Do read itswildouthere.com/blog/rivers-in…

Something on the lessons that a river as old as time may teach us if we let it -

Believe and walk the journey of decolonisation, repatriation, and healing. Naga delegation begins historic repatriation of ancestral remains from Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum nagalandtribune.in/naga-delegatio…

‘Neither specimens nor collectibles’ - Naga delegation returns after historic UK repatriation visit morungexpress.com/neither-specim…

Dimapur, Nagaland: The Morung Express, Front Page June 16 Visit morungexpress.com to read in detail

Collective vision. ‘Towards healing & wholeness of Naga people’ | MorungExpress | morungexpress.com morungexpress.com/towards-healin…

FNR statement of gratitude to the Naga people.

Reflecting on the Journey Forward. The closing speech on behalf of the Naga Delegation at the Pitt Rivers Museum week long deliberations on repatriation of Naga ancestral remains from Oxford University.

Dolly Kikon Pasang Y Sherpa Rahul Ranjan Manshi Asher #Himalaya

Resharing the CFP for the 12th Annual Roots & Bridges Ethnographic Writing Workshop. We look forward to receiving your full papers by 15 July for consideration. We have exciting sessions and panels planned this year!

The 2025 R&B workshop! Apply!This year Day 2 will include a writing workshop for doctoral students. Post fieldwork students working on the region are strongly encouraged to apply.For pre fieldwork students, we welcome a small number to attend as observers.I look forward to see u!