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How Naga communities came together for each other during the pandemic
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March 07, 2021 15:17 IST
The close-knit society is falling back on the sense of community and kinship that has been passed down over generations in Nagaland
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Members of Christo Naga’s Club, which consists of students, farmers, government and private sector employees, pose with the paddy they harvested during the lockdown in Zhavame village, Nagaland
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The close-knit society is falling back on the sense of community and kinship that has been passed down over generations in Nagaland
One evening in June, a group of young men and women gathered in Zhavame village in the foothills of the Kapamodzü peak, one of Nagaland’s highest mountains. The lockdown had not yet been completely lifted, and the group mused about the abandoned paddy fields in the village. Many young people from Zhavame had moved to cities to study or work, and almo
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All of humanity emerged from a rock on my family’s rice field. This is what I was taught. The field, though small, boasts a perennial spring which comes out from below the rock that is the source of all of humanity, keeping the field permanently flooded and amenable for growing rice. The first time I descended down the stone terraces from the village to the field, my aunties and uncles showed me where to place my hands on the rock to feel the polished grooves where, they say, the first people stepped and climbed up into the world, in what is now our small rice field.