Consonant Aspirations

Last month, I was in Taiwan for about a week with Mum. We spent a few days at Sun Moon Lake (日月潭), which we used as a base to visit our p...

While accommodation options abound in and around the town of Kohora, for visitors planning forays into neighbouring Kaziranga National Par...

Even though I am not in NE India at the moment, I still have a couple of things I have been meaning to post. Back in December, after the H...

As I'll be heading back to Nagaland in a few days' time for the Hornbill Festival, I thought I'd finish posting about some of t...

The past two week I've been receiving messages from an Assamese guy who used to work at the guest house I was staying in in Guwahati. (...

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1962 Sino-Indian War, which saw fighting between India and China over two dispute...

As you can guess from the title, this post is about responsibility, racism and trying to recharge a prepaid SIM card (with a phone company ...

While  many parts of Northern Britain have also been hit by severe weather and flooding , the headlines of all the local papers here in Ass...

About three weeks into my current stay in Guwahati, I discovered an absolute gem on GS Road, just two bus stops away from where I'm sta...

Just saw this making the rounds on Facebook. As I mentioned in my last post, the current conflict between Bodos and Bengalis isn't ab...

I'm meant to be going down to Dimapur at some point today, if my ride from Zunheboto actually comes to pick me up from Kohima. (We'r...