Few years later, my essay is out. Tribes are not left behind on the path of progress and civilisation, as the narrative tries to have us believe otherwise.

My book with @UZPress is here!! It is a decade-long project #ethnography, tracing the social and political life of a major conservation intervention across scales, from #BINGO head office in DC, to field sites in #Cambodia. Blurb here: uapress.arizona.edu/book/corporate… 1/🧵

"Roluahpuia foregrounds a bottom-up approach, an everyday nationalism embedded in the vernacular domain of the Mizo people." Read Somingam PS's review of Roluahpuia's Nationalism in the Vernacular Cambridge University Press 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-gKM

Lest we forget! #PochuryBlackDay, #6thSeptember1966

Naga Students' Union Delhi appeals to all Nagas to participate in the Twitter campaign which is schedule for tomorrow(09-09-2023).

#SAAG2023 over last three days was an incredible space to share 'Countercurrents' with peers and established scholars in anthropology of south Asia. Facilitated by Jo ജോ (they/them) SOAS Department Of Anthropology🤓Shout outs to Sambhavi Ganesh Somingam PS @manabika_m Thom Herzmark Dr. Ryder Regina

FIELD is calling…📻 World of Reflexivity. #Border #Indo(Naga)-Myanmar #Borderland.

Travel well James Scott. Your work brought Northeast India alive. You opened up a world for us to imagine, think, write, and theorise about a region. Our lives are transformed forever. From Zomia, we bid you farewell James Scott. May you fly across the clouds and hills of Zomia.

Happy to share my latest article titled ‘Timber Assemblage, Militarization, and Entangled People’s Lives at the Indo (Naga)-Myanmar Borderland’ - Somingam PS, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FD9VXWH…

Find my review here (link below) on Dolly Kikon’s book ‘Living with Coal and Oil: Resource Politics and Militarisation in Northeast India’. A book with intensive ethnographic accounts. I reviewed it during #CovidPandemicLockdown.

Excuse me! Learning how to handle Twitter. 😃

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has recently approved construction of 57 roads in Manipur, for which funds have been sanctioned under Central Roads and Infrastructure Fund. Sadly, all of these roads are only confined to the valley; not even 1 for the hill. Total Km -

Radio and I. #Digital drought. #Borderland #Field Diaries #Indo-Myanmar.

🚨 Documents of the ₹81,000cr Great Nicobar project fail to acknowledge existence of tribal villages and hunting and foraging grounds. A big reason: there has never been a systematic government effort to map tribal areas in these rainforests #GroundReport thenewsminute.com/news/great-nic…