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Purnima is having the best of her evenings with her inmates in a jail room. Yet her every laughs and giggles are concealing a grave conflict. The visiting hours in the jail are dreadful with no one to visit her. These are the times when she finds herself asking who she is. Tagged as a "disgraced inheritance", from an unknown father to a mentally unfit mother, her childhood was chastised. The reality of being an illegitimate child haunts during her teens and when she was married, it crucified her. A "Gun and a God" is the journey a woman, whose will was forged by the structural violence of her existence, who finally finds her voice in a Gun and justice in a God.

On the slopes above and below, groups of men and boys and a few girls of Shoupa's family were cutting the rice. The harvesters cut sheaves of rice-stalks and left them on the ground to be picked up by small boys who in turn carried them to the threshing hut. The reapers worked in lines or semi-circles, shouting as they proceeded with surprising speed. The effect was almost that of a machine, and plots of high waving rice-plants were suddenly reduced to bare ground where only the large leaves of taro plants emerged from heaps of cut rice-stalks. (From the field notes of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, 1970-08-29) 

The film examines the policy initiatives in the North East to increase its social, economic and cultural interaction with the rest of the country. North Eastern India, due to its geographical isolation has not been developed at par with the rest of the country. Now, the Government of India with its 'Look East Policy' has taken a step to rectify this situation. There have been new infrastructure initiatives within this region such as the setting up of a network of highways, railways and pipelines. With a large number of educated and English speaking youth emerging from these states combined with a policy of integrating with the neighbouring states, the 'Look East Policy' aims to transform North-East India as a thriving social and economic belt.

This documentary film showcases the cultural and traditional preservation of four immigrant tribes of Tripura. These tribes from the northeast were escorted by the British 100 years ago to support them at the tea gardens. Been away from their roots over the years, a mixed form of culture has emerged among them. They have also developed a new form of language to communicate and survive. The documentary film was made for the Tribal Research and Cultural Institute (Government of Tripura), covering Santal, Bhil, Orang and Munda tribes.

In this video produced for the Yale Himalaya Initiative, former Queen of Sikkim Hope Cooke speaks of her memories and experiences of Sikkim, and her continued relationship with Sikkimese communities.

It tells the story of the Welsh Missionary in Khasi hills in north-east India between the year 1841 - 1969.

The former headhunters of northeast India once wore their tattoos with pride, as each mark reflected a military success. But changing attitudes mean the practice is dying out.

The State of Tripura has a long history. The Twipra Kingdom at its peak included the whole eastern region of Bengal from the Brahmaputra River in the north and west, the Bay of Bengal in the south and Burma to the east during the 14th and 15th centuries AD.

Hometown Heroes is the story of Papon going back to his roots in Assam and how that is the place which sowed the seeds for his journey in life. It is about home and that is where heroes are made.

Year Of Production - 2015/2016

Location: Majuli, Assam, India. Jorhat, Assam, India. Nagaon, Assam, India. Guwahati, Assam, India. Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Delhi, India.

A video compilation of photographs taken during the Hornbill Festival in Nagaland.

Story of a group of Indian women who set aside a handful of rice each time they cook a meal in order to sell the rice and contribute to missions.

A short video on the last tribes of headhunters in Nagaland, Northeast India.

The State of Tripura was one of the ancient princely states of India. According to the Rajmala (the Chronicles of Kings), Tripura was ruled continuously by as many as 184 Tripuri Kings with sovereign and independent status prior to its merger with the Indian Union in 1949, after the death of the last ruling King, Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman. His successor, Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman, was thirteen years old at the time of the merger. King Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman had died in 1947, after which a Council of Regency was formed to run the administration under the presidency of Queen Kanchan Prava Devi, mother of Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman. Within a few months after the unnatural demise of King Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman, Tripura faced a great crisis, with threats from internal as well as external forces. Queen Kanchan Prava Devi, as president of the Council of Regency, came under severe pressure to opt to join the Indian Union. On the advice of the Government of India, she dissolved the Council of Regency and became the sole Regent on 12 January 1948. More than a year later, on 9 September 1949, she signed the 'Tripura Merger Agreement', and with effect from 15 October 1949 Tripura became part of Indian Union. It was thereafter administered by the Chief Commissioner as a 'C' Category State. Edit AGREEMENT made this ninth day of September 1949, between the Governor-General of India and His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura.

The film gives an insight about the fishing scene in different village of the state of Meghalaya.

Nagaland as an Indian state comprises of various tribes and their independent cultures, cuisines, festivals & traditions. It is because of this array of festivity that Nagaland is known as the 'Land of Festivals.'