Released on YouTube in 2011, Gwyneth Alicia Mawlong’s “Syrngiew” is one of the most path-breaking musical productions emerging from Shillong, at least in the past decade. Its radicality lies both in its form and content. It is a Khasi song which beautifully expresses frustration and sadness over a love crippled by social detestation and non-acceptance, by virtue of its unconventional nature.
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For the wannabe celebrity hungry class of Shillong, arrival of wannabe rock musicians and super wannabe film auteurs to shoot sequel of one bollywood banality called #RockOn has been a page3 moment.
Phi iohi mynta ki briew pat ki kylli balei phi leit tem hangne hangtai. L*@#, da nga leit tem hangno hangno makna ruh, nga rwai beit ia ka jingshisha kaba jia ha pyrthei. Lada phi siew ia nga watla nga rwai ia kata ka jingshisha, B**, ngan thut leh aiu?
ML 05 B 6055 documents the journey of a bazaar bus between the village of Mawjatap in the East Khasi Hills and Shillong
Bamboo Shoots – a film by Steven Ao about a young boy and his mother troubles | Nagamese with English subs | 10 mins
On Shillong ‘ban’ – Raiot interviews Digital Suicide and also want you to listen to their song #AKHUNI
In May this year, I attended a panel discussion on the Village Administration bill, held in Dinam hall, Jaiaw. There were representatives from State, members of…
Some of the Raiots love mucking about in the archives. This amateur film, most probably shot by a visiting doctor is taken from Wellcome Library Moving…
Until Oblivion – viewing Amar Kanwar’s ‘The Sovereign Forest’
Amar Kanwar began as a documentary filmmaker, later expanding his practice to multi-channel video installation. While he works strictly with documentary and archival images, Kanwar employs various methods of editing and presentation to exceed their immediate facticity, conjuring atmosphere, underlying motives, and furtive histories. This is a (re)viewing diary of Amar’s latest work The Sovereign Forest
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