Nagaland Hornbill Festival | Foreigner tourists talking part in Raja mirchi eating competition

Have you ever attempted eating "Raja Mircha" raw?

Nagaland Hornbill Festival | Opinions from Javed Akhtar and foreign tourists

MTV Roadies in Kohima | Behind the scenes

Probably an embarrassing thing that lights went off for 4 hours (not a surprising phenomena in Nagaland) and they had to arrange a generator to get back on track! (at: 5:55)


Watch other MTV Roadies Episodes in this playlist-

Migratory Birds ( Amur Falcon) Masaccare in Nagaland

Nagaland is in the news again! Sadly not for a good one this time.

National Geographic have an article on the massacre of migratory birds, Amur Falcons in Nagaland. Here is the link to the article on National Geographic. Such news does not put us in good light. Nagas have been hunters in the past and it is still a passion for many (if we are left with any thing to hunt for due to our least concern for preserving nature). And though people in village remote areas and villages survive on bare necessities, with the world changing around us and awareness all around to preserve nature and it's resources , we also need to change our ways for better.

We need to educate our people to be kind to nature, preserve nature. Besides, there should be adequate alternative sources of livelihood so the people at the grass root level are not led to destroy nature to make ends meet.

Some excerpt from the article referring directly to Nagaland:
"It is clear that the people of Nagaland urgently need better access to education and rural development programs that support sustainable livelihoods alongside biodiversity conservation in this beautiful region. I hope that the whole world will be watching what the Indian government does next year to stop this slaughter. Migratory species like Amur falcons drive home that we are a global community that needs global solutions to poverty, hunger, climate, and biodiversity conservation…"

"The local people filmed by Conservation India catching Amur falcons, breaking their wings, sorting them, smoking them, and trading in them, cannot possibly enjoy this annual activity and do this purely for money and trade goods. They may look forward to the arrival of the falcons, but only because of the commercial and subsistence opportunities. Most of the local community most likely celebrate the arrival of the falcons as a wonder of nature and simply marvel at it. This is not just happening in India. It has happening all over the world. It has happened before and caused extinctions… Remember the passenger pigeon of the United States? Right now, hundreds of thousands of African green pigeons in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being caught in nets, skewered, and smoked in a similar fashion… They will go locally extinct if we do not stop this unsustainable trade…When everything is stripped away by poverty and hunger, life becomes very simple and breaking the wings of a falcon or a pigeon and keeping it alive to preserve the meat before smoking would make perfect sense. We will never halt the devastating impacts of the bushmeat and international wildlife trade until we address the striking inequalities in our global community, at village level, regional level, national level, and in the international community. To put yourself in place of the people involved in the Amur falcon trade please read how Dalvi and Sreenivasan ..."

Video filmed in Nagaland by Conservation India:



Related articles in the media:
Hindustan times
Conservation India
Indian Express
Bird Ecology Study Group

Rewben Mashangva, the King of Naga Folk Blues at NagaFest, 2012

Watch Rewben Mashangva, King of Naga Folk Blues speak about peace sending out a message 'no more killings' to the people to stay united. Speaking in this video in short are: Mhathung Odyuo -Purple Fusion Band (former Divine Connection Bassist), Towering Faith front man, and Mike, a foreign visitor commenting on the musical talent of the Naga people.



Source: ANIMultimedia

NagaFest 2012 is a one of its kind celebration with Music concerts, food, prizes, awesome speakers and showcasing the talent of the Indigenous Naga tribes of North East India. It is a platform for all Nagas to come together in Delhi. It was held on 19th September 2012 at Talkatora Stadium funded by an NGO called the Indigenous Foundation (IF). The main purpose of Nagafest is to fight poverty in Naga inhabited areas and to bring all Nagas together, to share the awareness of issues and concerns as a group. It is not a political group but action oriented and plans to take up all cultural, spiritual and economic issues to solve them with immediate and long term needs for the group.

Discovery Channel's Tattoo Hunter- Wancho tribe, Nagaland, India (Part4 & 5 of 5)

Missed Part 1,2,3?  Watch it here (Part 1-3).

Part 4:


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Discovery Channel's Tattoo Hunter- Wancho tribe, Nagaland, India (Part 1-3 of 5)

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Watch Part 4 & 5 here.

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Interview with Grace Collins by CSI , 2007

Conflict Solutions International Inc (CSI) interviews Grace Collins, honorary ambassador for the Naga people of Nagalim, India.

Part One


Part Two

Conflict Solutions International's website : http://www.csiorg.org/

"Conflict Solutions International (CSI) is an independent, volunteer-driven non-governmental organization that seeks to end violent conflict through education, mediation and negotiation."

Alobo Naga and the band interview on Artistaloud.com

Alobo Naga and the band interview on Artistaloud.com.
The first 15 minutes of the video is Alobo Naga and the band. and the rest is Lucid Recess  band from Assam.



Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtistAloud

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Naga food ingredients - What's on your plate?

Nagas are known to be hardcore non-vegetarians. Most of the time, there is no meal without a meat dish. But besides the non-veg diet, they also include a lot of boiled vegetables in their diet, such as boiled vegetable leaves, squash, beans, yam etc.

This video captured by WildFilmsIndia shows a few ingredients Nagas include in their diet. Shown in the video are ginger, mushrooms, dried mushrooms, green leaves (mustard plant leaves), axone (fermented soya been), French beans, dry fish, brinjals and other vegetables. Besides, fresh vegetables, Nagas also like to use dried vegetables - like yam stems are slicked and dried in the sun and used with pork and beef in some dishes. Some fermented ingredients include axone (soyabean) and bamboo shoot. Bamboo shoot is actually used in many forms - fresh, dried, fermented, and in liquid form collected during fermentation. They also smoke meat. Smoked pork and beef dishes are also very common.





Source: WildFilmsIndia

Delhi in a day (Trailer) | Costume Designer- Narola Jamir

Off and on, we keep hearing Nagas in various creative roles.  One such is about a movie called 'Delhi in a day' scheduled to release in cinemas in India on August 24th, 2012. Because it has a Naga lady, Narola Jamir as one of the 'Costume Designer' for the movie.
Check out the movie trailer video.



Find more information about 'Delhi in a day' from the link below.
http://www.delhiinaday.com/cast.php

Narola Jamir on Twitter: https://twitter.com/narolacjamir

Crew

[caption id="attachment_1021" align="alignright" width="197"] Delhi in a day[/caption]

Director of Photography - Eun-Ah Lee (Korea/US )
Executive Producer - Kumar C Dev (Madras Talkies)
Producer - Prashant Nair
Producer - B Chintu Mohapatra (Dil Se, Guru, Raavan)
Line Producer - Debendra Jagadala
Line Producer - Tara Raman
Screenplay - Prashant Nair
Story Consultant - Billy Fox
Dialogue Consultant - Kawal Soni
Editor - Sylvie Landra (Leon, The 5th Element)
Editor - Bhuvan Srinivasan (Urumi, Raavan)
Colorist - J.Bolan
Original Score - Mathias Duplessy (Peepli Live)
Sound Design - Tapas Nayak (Raavan, Bheja Fry)
Sound FX - Sethu (Lagaan, Raavan)
Costume Designer - Mahima Shukla
Costume Designer - Narola Jamir
1st AD - Kharabela Mohapatra
2nd AD - Shoba Mohapatra
Script Supervisor - Prarthana Goswami
Gaffer - James Usmanov
DI/VFX - EFX Magic Chennai
DI/VFX - Prasad Studios
Sound Facilities - AM Studio Chennai

Source: http://www.delhiinaday.com/cast.php