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Platinum Jubilee Special Supplement
Special Supplement on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of The Shillong Times. This will be a year long celebration dedicating to the theme ‘ clean environment ‘ .
If it weren’t for them
As The Shillong Times celebrates its coveted Platinum Jubilee, it’s time to look back at the sepia pages of history to place on record our gratitude to some colleagues who are no more in this world, and whose relentless struggle, sheer…
At 76, city’s oldest newspaper hawker soldiers on
News of the world at a Motphran corner
He sits at the corner of Motphran point, leading to Iewduh, almost as if he does not want to be noticed. Customers come and go picking up their favourite newspapers and periodicals from his…
A road travelled well but miles to go
August 10, 1945. One man’s vision and conviction, and of course, enterprise birthed The Shillong Times weekly. Thousands of miles away, a community, massacred by America’s show of prowess, was trying to salvage what was left of life after…
Is NEC a crumbling council?
By Rahul Karmakar
No decade after India’s independence has perhaps impacted the eight-state Northeast as much as the 1970s. The Emergency of 1975 was but a minor factor. The decade saw Meghalaya being carved out of Assam in 1972, the…
Circa 1945: The Beginning
During the Golden Jubilee celebrations of The Shillong Times 25 years ago, our Founder Editor Late Sudhindra Bhushan Chaudhuri recounted his early days as a journalist and what spurred him to launch the weekly. He penned down his…
Identity conundrum
Relationships between ethnic groups have often met with various setbacks due to distrust…
By Samudra Gupta Kashyap
Often referred to as the anthropologist’s paradise, Northeastern India not only presents a wonderful ethnic and…
Early Shillong through the eyes of a German Catholic missionary
Father Otto Hopfenmüller of the
Society of the Divine Saviour or
Salvatorian was the pioneering catholic missionary to the Khasi Hills. Lorenz Hopfenmüller was born on May 29, 1844, in Weismain, Germany. He became a priest of the…
TRAILBLAZERS FROM THE NORTH EAST
DIPA KARMAKAR is an Indian artistic gymnast. Karmakar first gained attention when she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. She also won a bronze medal at the Asian Gymnastics Championships and finished fifth at the…
GOLDEN GLOVES
“Never Buy Gold. Simply Earn It.”-- Magnificient Mary
The 36-year-old MC MARY KOM has been an inspiring force in women's boxing in India. In her 18-year long illustrious career, she has won six World Championships, an Olympic…
History of SHILLONG
Born in mid-1860s, the city went through constant metamorphosis to get its present look
By B Datta Ray
Lure of limestone brought the different warring Europeans, the British, the French, the Portuguese, the Greeks and the Armenians…