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2025-27

The Challenge:

Personal narratives, local histories and cultural memories risk being lost over time.

What we did:

Documented three individuals' life stories, collected accounts of cultivation, tea gardens, the Gorkhaland agitation and community experience, and formed a cinematography, editing and direction team.

Results & Achievements:

Three life stories were documented, resource-person connections established, and work towards an archive website initiated.

What We Learned:

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Next Steps:

Continue developing the website as a digital archive for the collected stories.

Theme

Project Chinhari

Preserving Indian Gorkha oral histories through recorded life stories and a developing digital archive.

Cultural Heritage

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