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In the state of Assam, a silver of India squeezed between Bangladesh and Bhutan, four million people are at risk of becoming stateless.

In India, nell’Arunachal Pradesh, vivono i Wancho, una popolazione per secoli rimasta isolata dall’influenza del mondo esterno. Oggi al loro fianco ci sono i Figli e le Figlie di Don Bosco. Il percorso che devono affrontare è lungo, faticoso e irto di ostacoli, ma il traguardo è troppo importante per i destino di un’intera popolazione.
In India, in Arunachal Pradesh, live the Wancho, a population that has remained isolated from the influence of the outside world for centuries. Today at their side are the Sons and Daughters of Don Bosco. The path they have to face is long, tiring and full of obstacles, but the finish line is too important for the fate of an entire population.

The lineage of the Garo people of Western Meghalaya goes back to Tibet. The Garo hills are interspersed with patches of low-lying plains bordering Assam and Bangladesh. The life of Garos revolve around the Sun God, who rules their Jhum or shifting cultivation, and envelops the dynamics of their life ways. The Wangala festival of the Garos is the time for celebrating the bounty and well being, bestowed by Sun God. It is the time to rejoice; time to choose the Bride and the Groom; and the time fo ryoung persons to mingle freely. The film places the life and times of Garos in the background of their traditional philosophy and belief systems, and provides a mirror to the Garo mindscape.

Four million people in northern India have effectively lost their citizenship after their names were left out of a national database of registered citizens. The list now includes only those who were able to prove they were in Assam state before 1971. For the people who've been left out of this list, there's fear they might become stateless or even face deportation. Narendra Modi's government argues they could NOT produce valid documents. But Indian leaders have assured them there won't be any immediate deportations and people can appeal to have their names registered. This all goes back to Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence. That's when hundreds of thousands of people fled to India to escape the fighting. Many of them settled in the north-eastern part of the country, mainly in Assam. So, have they become stateless? And will this create further division?

The Film explores the experience of Young Mizo Association and how the traditional code of rightful conduct called twalhmgainha in Mizoram has been re-invented.

Short documentary report on the aftermath of the Longliang fire mishap.

India is the land of people of multi class, creed, race, religion and languages. The documentary WANGALA is the documentation of the cultural and religious believes and their practice by the one of the ancient most tribe of the world -- 'The ACHIKS', famously known to the other world as the 'GARO', residing at the remotest part of India, the GARO hills, to bring out their various colors of life in front of the civilized world. It is done through the eyes of a traveller in search of the various ramifications of life.

Mutual Respect - Patience - Civic Sense These three qualities are the reason why the people of Mizoram are the most disciplined Indians on road. Mizos' traffic etiquettes have been lauded time and again on the internet. Viral photos and videos of people patiently waiting in their lanes, without honking or overtaking are shared simply because the sight is rare as compared to the scene in the rest of India. Mizos' traffic discipline has earned Aizawl the title of the 'Silent City' of India.

'Seng Kut Snem' and its importance for the Khasis in Meghalaya

Women's group broke all the akor and confronted Dr. D. D. Lapang, Chief Minister of Meghalaya 29th October 2004. This documentary is about the protest of the Meghalaya women association and various women NGOs against the setting up of the State Commission for women by the CM.

Meet the headhunters of Arunachal Pradesh!! Most of us have seen the photographs and videos of the famous Headhunters of Nagaland. Little did I know we could find them in Arunachal Pradesh too. Meet the Wancho Tribes - An indigenous tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. They are culturally the Nagas and ethnically related to the Konyak Tribes of Nagaland. I was recently invited by Arunachal Tourism to explore the new circuit called TCL (Tirap, Changland and Longding) that, the officials are planning to open for tourists. I got a chance to visit KONSA Village, which is the last village at the Indo-Myanmar border. The border is just one km from this village. You can still find a king and his monarchy in this village. I even got a chance to enter the King's house and witness their way of living, cultural performances and much more.

The Garos are some of the most interesting and intriguing people of India. They are an ancient race of Tibetan origin who settled in the north-east hill regions in pre-historic times. Being almost secluded from the mainstream of change in the rest of the country for many centuries, their culture is still pristine and traditional. However, not many outside their race know about them. The interest about a largely unknown people, coupled with the desire to travel to the remote Meghalaya, has been the impulse behind this short documentary film. It shows one woman on a journey of discovery as she travels deeper and deeper into Garo land, and finally the richness of the experience she has, learning about a way of life that is threatened on all sides by encroaching advances of urban civilization. This film documents their everyday lives and also their myths and religion, and tries to take a look at the world through their eyes. It finds out about the benevolent nature of their religion and philosophy, and the religious dimension about most of their actions, even their festivals and revelry. And it raises some important questions, not the least of which is whether we can help this fast-vanishing people survive, and whether government action is relevant. The traveling woman's wanderlust will not let her settle in one place, and fascinating as the Garo-s may be, she is seen at the end of this film to be heading east, in the direction of the land of the Khasi-s, a tribe similar to the Garo-s but with a distinct culture of their own.

“What the Fields Remember” is a revisiting of the event and an exploration of how the survivors remember the violence 32 years later, and how do the spaces that have witnessed this violence continue to mark people’s relationship to history and memory.

The Khasi tribe, which lives in India and Bangladesh, is known for its matrilineal culture in which women dominate a family. As the economy develops, the life of Khasi is improving. There are more than one million Khasi people in India and around 30,000 in Bangladesh, mainly in northeastern Sylhet Division. Before partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Khasi people belonged to one country. After partition, majority of Khasi live in India, and the rest in Bangladesh.

This Documentary portrayed the kind of attitude the dorbar shnong have towards women who want to bring change in the society. It showed the limited role that a woman can play in the day governance of the society. The three women who used RTI and found that there were evidences of people in power misusing public money in the implementation of the MNREGA in the village.