This is Lamka

21/10/2025

Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (F**A) and Royal Enfield, in collaboration with the Highland Impact Foundation and Rayburn College, hosted a Practitioners’ Session in Lamka, Manipur at the Library of Rayburn College, Gangpimual.

The session brought together creative practitioners from Lamka town, including conservationists, artists, researchers, and writers, working across various mediums and forms.

Mary Therese Kurkalang, Cultural Curator, Producer, and Researcher based between Delhi and Shillong, and Lead Consultant of the Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners, shared insights about the fellowship and its vision.

21/10/2025

PRACTITIONERS’ CIRCLE SESSION IN LAMKA, MANIPUR

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (F**A) and Royal Enfield in collaboration with Highland Impact Foundation and Rayburn College host the Practitioners Circle session with creative practitioners from Lamka, Manipur.

The session introduce The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners with Mary Therese Kurkalang, a Cultural Curator and Lead Consultant for this programme since conception speak about the programme and present an overview of the programme.

02/07/2024

27/06/2024

Hello readers and well-wishers,

As we endeavour to bring Lengkhawm to Delhi next month, we need your support. Delivering a successful exhibition at one of India’s foremost galleries involves huge operational costs.

About Lengkhawm in the Hills: Carefully curated to depart from token representations of tribal India as either victims or motifs and to challenge the flawed visualisation of hill tribes in mainstream media. The aim is to showcase Lamka’s beauty, strength, and richness by unpacking how the town and its people have travelled through time and space and today, are caught between tradition and modernity.

About This is Lamka: An art and cultural collective of 100+ artists, designers, and writers from Lamka. It began as a nonpareil grassroots-based, community-driven digital archiving project to preserve the visual histor(ies) of the Zo tribes in Lamka and beyond. In 2021, it culminated into a hugely successful exhibition supported by the British Council’s prestigious Heritage Grant for South Asia. This is Lamka has grown organically and travelled far and wide to other towns and cities in North East India, including the Legacy Thread’s exhibition by the North East India AV Archive.

It would have been impossible for us to have journeyed this far without the help of generous institutions and individuals, who saw potential in our mission to tediously claw back and meticulously retell our lost and forgotten histor(ies).

We hope that your support and funding will allow us to bring Lamka to Delhi and, hopefully through Delhi to the rest of the world. If you do require any additional information, please feel free to reach out at [email protected] or contact Golan Naulak at +91 9717691266 or John Simte at +91 9650361084.

Hoping to see you in Delhi next month!

Team

27/06/2024

Delhi - we are coming.




Lengkhawm is a contemporary art exhibition aimed at showcasing the history, culture and creativity of Lamka town in North-Eastern India. Inspired by their connection with their hometown, this exhibiton brings together more than a hundred young artists, designers, dreamers and writers from Lamka, both professionals and amateurs, in a singular endeavour of collectively curating a series of artwork representing their beloved town - in photography including photo archives, films, digital illustration, and an art installation as its centre piece.

12/03/2024

Another day in this dusty old town.


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12/03/2024

Do you still eat naisom biscuits?
What is your fondest memory of this quintessential Lamka biscuit?

04/03/2024

We are all set for ‘s Legacy Threads exhibited in Shillong to be held from 6-9 March, 2024 at St Anthony’s College.

Stoked to be a part of this one of a kind exhibition with inspiring teams like , , , .

Rum Shoute and Jane Seldou will be representing our team, with support from our Shillong team of .hoih_ tonsing and Dolly. Thrilled and thankful to the organisers and to everyone who supported our journey.

See you in Shillong!

02/01/2024

From Lamka, with love.
2024

31/12/2023

Lamka gets her first MBE!

It has been a difficult, difficult year for all of us but here’s ending 2023 with the news of our town’s Nu Khumi Tonsing Burton being selected in the King’s New Year Honours List 2024 as Member of the Order of British Empire (MBE). Nu Khumi will now be Khumi Tonsing Burton, MBE, JP, DL.

Nu Khumi was JP (Justice of the Peace- akin to Magistrate) in Manchester for 20 years.

She was appointed DL (Deputy Lieutenant) in 2003 and represented the Queen through the Lord Lieutenant of a county.

What an honour. A recognition of her selfless work and commitment to the community in her county. She’s also been active in fundraising and other social engagements in India, including in her hometown Lamka.

We are so proud of you Nu Khumi. What a way to honour your birthplace, your community and your town.

Needless to say, women leading the way in making all of us in and from Lamka proud. May you continue to shine.