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On the 14th of November 2023, a book titled 'Stories from the Valley' authored by D Junisha Khongwir and Karen L Donoghue was launched at the Shillong Literary Festival. 'Stories from the Valley' is published by The Northeast India AV Archive and produced by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan. Below is a brief description of the book and a link to purchase it. Tucked away in the south-eastern part of Shillong city, Happy Valley is a small locality especially known for the

The Festival of Libraries is an initiative powered and inaugurated by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The festival was inaugurated as an endeavour to realise the Prime Minister’s goal to develop libraries across the country and to foster the reading culture in the country. The Northeast India AV Archive was one of the multiple institutions to participate in the festival. A number of institutions presented a project story, and also participated in the various pan

Speak Your Roots, is a keen effort to reignite the interest in and the learning of indigenous heritage and knowledge systems, through the revival of our love and reverence for indigenous languages. Based in Shillong, the emphasis of the work lies in the effort to revive the Khasi and Jaintia languages, and their numerous dialects. Language is an intrinsic and most crucial aspect of culture and identity, and the reinstatement of the same fosters the development, practice, and

Happy International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples!! The Northeast India AV Archive, Department of Mass Media in collaboration with the Department of Khasi, St Anthony's College, celebrated this day with a discussion on this year's theme for the occasion, 'Indigenous youth as agents of change for self-determination.' The entire programme was carried out in the Khasi language, and the speakers were Dr Badaplin War, retired Professor, Department of Khasi, North-Eastern H

Shillong has been the music capital of the region for the longest time, owing to its reputation for being the confluence of various traditions and genres of music, from indigenous music to western music, from a unique kind of blues to rock music and fundamentally because of the love for music that its people harbour and practise here. On the 5th December, 2020, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival conducted a virtual program called ‘Rustle of Spring, Whiff of

The 27th October celebrates annually since 2005, the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. The occasion honours institutions and individuals concerned with the safekeeping and preservation of heritage and culture. The lockdown in 2020, allowed the celebrations to be held only virtually, so in honour of the occasion, The Northeast India AV Archive organised a virtual talk on the subjects of archiving, the importance of archiving and Archives, the reasons for making The Northeast

In one of our projects on archiving photographs, we were able to retrieve, digitise, catalogue and store photographs of Purno Sangma, the erstwhile Chief Minister of Meghalaya and Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha which were taken during his terms in office. The photographs reveal the illustrious years that Purno Sangma had in his career as a political leader. On the occassion of his birth anniversary, we along with Dr Rev Brother Albert Longley Dkhar, the Principal of S

The idea to establish an archive within the Department of Mass Media, St Anthony's College Shillong was brewed in conversations about the overflow of student productions which required a larger space to accomodate them. The idea was soon realised when our friend and colleague Tarun Bhartiya introduced our department to members of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) Japan who were immediately keen on supporting our vision to establish an audiovisual archive within the college