Opening Remark by Gam A. Shimray at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN Webinar Series
Indigenous Peoples and voluntary isolation: when forests food systems become a stronghold against COVID 19
My deepest respect and thanks to:
Thanawat Tiensin, Permanent Representative of Thailand to the UN agencies in Rome and...
“Oksha di nang thongo. Eromba di ei shemke” (You cook pork. I will prepare eromba). Or “Hoksa ina hangkei. Eromba nana semlu” (I will cook pork. You prepare eromba). This could be any random conversation between two friends; a Meitei and a Tangkhul Naga friend getting themselves ready for...
LUIRIM traditional dresses are emblem of allegiance, marking the person out as belonging to a discrete cultural unit and often indicate a person’s standing within the community. Clothing are far more than mere protection. Its designs and functional values conveys, communicate, identify the individual and community, signaling tribal affiliation;...
As I browsed through the morning News and checked my Facebook & WhatsApp messages to update the development on this global pandemic ~ COVID 19 and its repercussion thereof, I am crestfallen ~ not because this virus is unbeatable but how we humans (in this case Tangkhulnao) are responding...
For mountain dwellers, mankind and land is an association that has borne survival and kinship among generations for as long as one can remember. In the story of evolving from being the descendants of ‘hunters and gatherers’ to ‘settled farmers’ our very marker of existence has revolved around the...