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Seven Sisters Archive is Neil Nagwekar's personal, decade-long project to document the unique lives of Northeast India; warts and all. It is an archive of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
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Please note that Seven Sisters Archive is principally the subjective journey of Neil Nagwekar, a writer from Mumbai. His twofold purpose of this website is to explain Northeast India to mainland Indians, and to support the arguments that Neil will produce in his speculative fictional books.
Northeast India is a vast place. It is deceptively larger than what the political map of India shows. The diets, languages, religions, festivals, costs of living, power structures and almost every other barometer is markedly different from that of mainland India.
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For instance, did you know that chickens in Shillong cost Rs. 300 per kilo, if you’re lucky? Did you know that there are areas in Arunachal Pradesh where people do not know the concept of rotis and chapatis? Did you know there are still unrecognized tribes and unexplored locations in this corner of the world? Did you know a large amount of educated people continue to assert, without hesitation, the existence of forest spirits, vampires, and black magic?
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There is a severe dearth of such kind of information available about the Seven Sisters on the Internet. Not in terms of news. Crime, poverty, election season and bureaucratic machinations are already described by existing news portals.
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But SSA is a cultural archive more than a daily news portal. It will not produce day-to-day reports on elections or current affairs. This is not an online news portal, nor is it a current affairs magazine. It is an archive—an arduous attempt to document the truths of more than 40 million people over a period of several years. Its articles will be long, exhaustive, constantly revised according to new information, and will make zero attempts to dazzle readers with exaggerations, lies and gossip.
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Topics may therefore cover fashion, festivals, food, gang culture, literature, music, politics, religion, social structures, sports, tribes, etc.
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For business inquiries, contributions, or corrections, kindly send a detailed email to sevensistersarchive at gmail dot com. Please include the requisite details or else it will be ignored.
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