• STORIES OF INDIA

    STORIES OF INDIA is a series of story-led conversations from various corners of the world, curating the experiences of being Indian. What is the idea of India? What does it stand for? Which stories of life are reflective of the country and its culture? The objectives of the STORIES OF INDIA series: 1. to understand the past and present of India from the perspectives of various thought leaders and change agents, making a difference in diverse disciplines. 2. to discuss the stories representative …

  • THE STAR FROM ANOTHER SKY: Sushant Singh Rajput's presence on Instagram

    Abstract: In a year that overwhelmed us with the many lives lost, the promising young actor Sushant Singh Rajput passed away on 14th June, 2020. We delve deep into the Instagram posts of Mr. Rajput in an attempt to understand his cerebral and stirring posts. He contemplated the universe, life and the human condition in several posts, characterized by an economy of words but a striking beauty of expression. We try to unearth his philosophy of life aided by his interviews and other secondary sourc…

  • Abstract and Excerpt: TMYS Review March 2023

    Amazon India link for TMYS Review March 2023 will be available here. (Available worldwide via Amazon) *** NOTE FROM THE SERIES EDITOR by Dr. Sourav Banerjee ************** TMYS Review, a quarterly imprint of www.tellmeyourstory.biz (TMYS), began in 2020 with the vision of popularising stories from personal experiences and academic research. Diverse themes covered under TMYS Review are conscious about documenting women's history of a generation because for every subject, every topic, women have…

  • Archive: TRIBAL HISTORY AND TRIBAL REPRESENTATION IN HISTORY project

    TMYS Facebook LIVE with global thought-leaders under TMYS Review June 2023, in collaboration with CAPI, University of Victoria. The book under the project will be available HERE in June 2023. (I) Gender Roles in Tribal Traditions & Heritage. (moderated by Dr. Stella Chitralekha Biswas) 1. Gender and Folklore: A Historical Perspective Tracing Traditional Roles of Women in Shaping and Preserving Tribal Identity. Delegate Speakers: Abin Chakraborty Surama Bera Nandini Sengupta 2. Tribal Wome…

  • Interview with Prof. Radhika Gupta on Tribal Women in Ladakh and Disturbed Borderlands of India.

    Dr. Radhika Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Global Sociology at the Leiden University. She received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Oxford University in 2011. Her research interests are wide-ranging and include the study of borderlands, politics of security, anthropology of religion (with a focus on Islam), tourism, environmental humanities and critical theory. Her research focuses on South Asia. Radhika has also worked in international development organizat…

  • Science and Literature: 8 Authors Who Merged the Two!

    TMYS spoke to eight authors who have a Science background and/or have written Science Fiction, trying to understand how they have brilliantly merged the seemingly disparate worlds of Science and Art. Click on the titles to visit their Amazon page and order your copy! Don’t forget to share your feedback with the author/s. RICHA LAKHERA Author of HUNGRY GODS. Richa studied B.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry & Biotechnology and went further to complete her M.Sc. in Chemistry. About the book: Hungry…

  • Who Am I?

    “Who am I?” Cries delusional disappointment From the other side of silent silences. “It is I!” replies the forgotten folklore Soaked to its bone with the mythography of Amnesia and madness. “It is I!” cries the fallen leaf Which was born “x” billion years ago In the shared womb of a strange sameness, In the throes of the same tragic groans and moans, Which delivered or vomited the Universe into being Identifying and relinquishing its cosmic responsibilities. “It is I!” cried the Mother, Bu…

  • Motifs

    On a veranda with intricately carved and Filigreed doors, Dancing lights and swaying shadows: Etched is childhood, at my grand-mom’s in Dehradoon. We children watched as the kathputliwala outside Made the kathputlis (wooden dolls) Swing up and down...up and down... Long shadows of tunics and lehengas twinkling In beauteous delight - kings, queens, peasants, priests, Villagers, horsemen and weavers at work, what a sight! How fabric and its motifs Flow along with time Moving through differ…

  • Interview with Prof. Neilesh Bose

    Neilesh is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair of Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria. His publications include the edited volumes India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (Leiden, 2022), South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives (London, 2020), and his monograph Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal (Delhi, 2014) as well as articles on religion, c…

  • Interview with Easterine Kire

    Easterine Kire is the first published novelist in English from Nagaland. Her renowned works include her book of poetry, Kelhoukevira (1982), and several novels, mentioned in order of publication: A Naga Village Remembered (2003), A Terrible Matriarchy (2007), Mari (2010), Bitter Wormwood (2011) Don't Run, My Love (2017), A Respectable Woman (2019) Walking the Roadless Road: Exploring the Tribes of Nagaland, (2019) The Rain-maiden and the Bear-man (2021), Journey of the Stone (2021) and Spirit Ni…


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