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Stories from Tseminyu District told in pictures: the cooperative, the landscape, and the crafts of the Rengma, as seen by the people who live with them.
Essays on the cooperative, the landscape, and the crafts of Tseminyu District, written and photographed by Himal Prakriti storytelling fellows and published by Voices of Rural India, a platform for stories told by rural communities themselves.
About Zunpha Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd. (ZMPCS): registered in 1981, dormant for decades, and revived in 2017 into the cooperative that promoted Kenono Foundation, with a staff of 47, most of them young people and women, and NABARD’s best cooperative award in 2025.
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On Binjwen, the traditional Rengma resting place: stone seats set along the mountain paths between village and field, built in the harvest season, often by families giving thanks, and what they say about how the Rengma move through their land.
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The significance and journey of Rengma traditional beaded jewellery: what the beads mean, who makes and wears them, and how the craft travels from one generation to the next.
Read on Voices of Rural IndiaThe Foundation welcomes writers, photographers, and fellows who want to document life, land, and enterprise in Tseminyu District and the wider Rengma country. Essays published elsewhere can be linked here; new work can be hosted on this page.