Kh Nasii
Story: I was born in 1927, in a village named Phaibung Khullen, to S Khazei and Thaisaorow. Phaibung Khullen is in the Senapati District of Manipur. I belong to the Duonamai Clan, which traces its origins to Saranamai (Siimai) village, considered to be the original village from where the Poumai tribe dispersed. Once during inter-village […]
Swarnaprabha Mahanta
Story: I was born in Barangabari, Gohpur, located in Sonitpur district in Assam in 1930. I come from a Hindu family that followed Vaishnavism. My father was the head priest of the satra and we were a well-to-do family since the satra was an important institution of Assam. From my childhood, I learned weaving and […]
Iqbal Bibi
Story:We were an Urdu-Punjabi speaking family living in Quetta. My father, Mohammad Hussain, originally from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, was a contractor for the railways. I was born to my mother, Sakina Bibi, in 1932 and given the nickname ‘Bala.’ The great earthquake of 1935 was so destructive that it forced our family to move back to […]