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First Guide Map of Shillong
In 1925, Survey of India as part of its Indian city map series published a guide map of Shillong. Beautifully rendered in colour, this Map along with 1935 black and white map are the only maps of...
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10 years of RTI in Meghalaya: Celebrations at Khyndailad
Meghalaya has been at the forefront of the struggle for the Right to Information Act. Story in Meghalaya began much before RTI Act became a law. It was in 2001 when Bah Michael Syiem started talking...
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U Bah SHLUR
Ka lamphrang da ka Raiot: Lai phew san snem mynshuwa (35) U Bah Shlur Nongbri, uwei na ki khlur kynjat bol (Football star) uba don nam jong ka Wahingdoh Sports Club bad ka Shillong, u la khlad noh na...
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Ka Thma jong ki Paidbah bad U Kiang Nangbah
Ia ka History ngi pule ym tang kum ka jingiathuh khana, hynrei ngi dei ruh ban pynshai shynna (interpret) ia ki jingjia history na kawei ka pateng sha kawei pat. Ki jingjia ha ka history ym dei ba ki...
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1989 Calendar of Shillong Poets & Artists
Amidst the curfew and rumours of 86-87, Robin Ngangom, Ananya Guha, Desmond Kharmawphlang, three young college teachers from Shillong, who had each brought out a book of poems and even had their poems...
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Travel and its motives
I recently dug up a paper I had written when I was a perpetually homesick student in Delhi. As I was reading an article on tourism in Meghalaya recently published on Raiot I felt compelled to revisit a...
View ArticleTalking of Partition
Independence Day in India – a day of celebrating our national sovereignty and saluting the anti-colonial freedom struggle. The triumph of Indian independence, however, is inseparable from the trauma of...
View ArticleRethinking Democracy, Rethinking State
Tweet A conversation with Late Zygmunt Bauman, social theorist of Modernity & its discontents Zygmunt Bauman was emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and had developed key...
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[ARCHIVAL DEBATES] Assam Agitation: Blind hostility is no solution
Tweet An essay by Hiren Gohain published 34 years ago in SUNDAY magazine This article was first published in Sunday Vol. 10 Issue 33, 6 -12 March 1983. Sunday, was a political weekly published from...
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KHASI FOXTROT TANGO
Tweet K Mark Swer translates & introduces Late Webster Davis Jyrwa’s priceless history of western music in #Khasi Hills & #Shillong Bah Webster Davis Jyrwa’s prologue to the book ‘Ka...
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“It’s you I came here for” : Eddie Rynjah Story
Tweet Like all histories, this is not a definitive story. If you have similar stories, documents, photographs to share, please send them to raiotwebzine@gmail.com A video was recently circulated...
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The Aryan Invasion Theory Is Finally Proven Right: Science – 1, Hindu...
Tweet For years, a needless ideological battle has been fought in India. The root of the debate is a seemingly irrelevant question – Did the ancient Indian “Vedic” civilisation originate in India or...
View ArticleKnow your #Gorkhaland politics & history
Tweet To trace back the history of Darjeeling, we need to go back to a period three and a half centuries ago. East India Company’s trade with Nepal started in 1767. There were four small Newari or...
View ArticleA mixed up ‘Khasi’ reflects on his ancestry
Tweet I am an individual of mixed ancestry and I have often wondered where my ancestors came from. Who were they? Where did they come from? What of their culture? These questions had kept me awake my...
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A brief history of gospel music’s evolution
Tweet A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony of Virginia in 1619 after being forcefully removed from their...
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Myth making and imagining a Brahmanical Manipur since 18th century CE
Tweet It is absolutely not farfetched to argue that Manipur was imagined in the 18th century, some 250 years ago. I must, however, caution myself here lest my arguments are misconstrued as denying the...
View ArticleDon’t be in denial about Genocide!
Tweet 1. One precondition and a feature of any genocide is an unshakable belief that such is not possible. Not just in the minds of the victims but also of the perpetrators. It might surprise many...
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Forgotten minority histories of the Indian national flag
Tweet This week, India celebrates 70 years of independence. The tricolour flag, perhaps the most tangible and potent symbol of freedom from colonial servitude, is on particularly full display. Few...
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The humble origins of ‘Silent Night’
Tweet One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols, “Silent Night,” celebrates its 200th anniversary this year. Over the centuries, hundreds of Christmas carols have been composed. Many fall...
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Debates, Divisions, and Deaths Within the Naga Uprising (1944-1963)
Tweet Political conflicts have lifecycles: like persons they go through different stages with each associating with particular behaviours, experiences, emotions and viewpoints. While each stage...
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