Meinu is from Tamu village in Burma. He is 28 years old. He has a business of selling local items like handcraft, food and snack items. His shop is right outside the AungDawMu monastery in Tamu. He has been doing this business for five years. Earlier, he was a labourer in the Indo-Myanmar market which […]
Chochi belongs to Tamu village in Myanmar. He is 29 years old and does auto driving to help his family financially. Being the eldest son in the family, he has a responsibility to support his family in bad times. Due to this, he couldn’t finish his education and became a rickshaw driver at 24. He […]
Savitri is 59 years old. Her ancestors belong to Morang district in Nepal but she is born and brought up in Tamu, Myanmar. She knows Hindi and Burman language. After getting married to a Burman man, she is handling the business of her in-laws family. The Dhaba is located in Tamu bazaar. In her family, […]
KB Thapa is a 51-year-old who served 19 years in the Indian Army. He belongs to Guwahati and by profession is a woodcraft maker. All the items in his shop are made by him. He has a wife and three kids, one son and two daughters. They all live in Shillong. He is married to […]
Prahan Chandra Ghosh is 57 years old and has served for 23 years in Assam tourism. Belonging to the Kohora village in Kaziranga, he studied a course in tourism and got placed in Guwahati, Assam. He didn’t like the city because he mentions it’s too fast and brutal for people like him. “Every farm kid, […]
Dipankar Bhagwati is from Guwahati, Assam but due to his wife’s profession, he shifted to Majuli. He is 42 years old and handles a homestay on his own in the village. His wife helps in the evening. The couple is really hardworking and humble. Dipankar and his wife have a bigger family in Guwahati. Due […]
Laal Saha is 48 years old and belongs to Barauni in Uttar Pradesh. For the past 25 years, he has been staying in Shillong. He does three different jobs a day to sustain his family in the hilltop town of Meghalaya. He has a wife and two kids who stay in Shillong with him. The […]
Abhishek Kumar from Gokarna is a mala seller at Kudle beach. He sells malas and ornaments. He has good convincing and selling skills. He has been doing this work from the last one year. His friends are at Kudle beach for eight years. Before this, Kumar used to work as a flower seller in different […]
Shanti Devi is a warm clothes weaver who belongs to Sarahan, Himachal Pradesh where she was born and brought up. She got married in 1962. She is the only girl child in the family with two more brothers. She is also the youngest child. Sarahan In the Sarahan culture, girls, when they are young, are taught […]
Introduction The Langza family, as we at tlow fondly refer to them are amazing people who are always ready to help others. There are six members in the family and the head of the family is Dorje and his wife’s name is Sonam. They have two sons and two daughters. On a freezing day in […]