{"id":4187,"date":"2025-03-16T03:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/?page_id=4187"},"modified":"2025-03-16T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:25:14","slug":"seeing-like-tarun-bhartiya-niam-faith-hynniewtrep-unaddressed-picture-postcards-from-khasi-jaintia-hills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/seeing-like-tarun-bhartiya-niam-faith-hynniewtrep-unaddressed-picture-postcards-from-khasi-jaintia-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing like Tarun Bhartiya, \u201cNiam \/ Faith \/ Hyn\u00f1iewtrep: Unaddressed Picture Postcards From Khasi-Jaintia Hills\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>\u201cIndia is being remade. Once celebrated as a great pluralist success of decolonized nation building, many of its post-colonial benchmarks are being quickly reworked, erased, and made redundant. But if you watched India from Khasi-Jaintia Hills of its Northeast, you would have seen the glorious Indian story a bit askew.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>For the last thirteen years, I have been trying to make sense of the idea of faith and identity and contestations around the questions of faith and nation-making amongst the Khasi-Jaintia people. Fourteen because in 2006, revival swept through these hills turning children into prophets. I have been travelling within the hills and the Welsh Calvinist Methodist Missionary Archives at Aberystwyth in Wales, examining the politics of identity-making.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u2014 <strong>Tarun Bhartiya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1282\" height=\"856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NIAM-FAITH-HYNNIEWTREP.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NIAM-FAITH-HYNNIEWTREP.webp 1282w, https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NIAM-FAITH-HYNNIEWTREP-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NIAM-FAITH-HYNNIEWTREP-1030x688.webp 1030w, https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NIAM-FAITH-HYNNIEWTREP-768x513.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/NIAM-FAITH-HYNNIEWTREP-705x471.webp 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIndia is being remade. 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