Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family's. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she Assamese, like her father, or Khasi, like her mother?  As a...

Set in mid-nineteenth-century Assam, when new concepts of modernity are increasingly challenging tradition, "Swarnalata" tells the story of three women from very different social backgrounds. Each of them swept up in the whirlpool of change, they her...