She traveled from village to village in a crusade to stop a practice in which women have been accused of being witches and harshly punished, or even killed, for it. By Adam Nossiter Birubala Rabha, an ...

Padma Shri awardee Birubala Rabha, renowned for her fight against witch hunting, passed away at a hospital here on Monday after a long battle with cancer, doctors said. Survived by two sons, a ...

Her crusade against witch hunting began when her son became a victim of it and died after which she proactively got involved in the campaign thereby saving over 50 people Assam-based social activist ...

New Delhi, Jun 10 (efe_epa).New Delhi, Jun 10 (efe_epa). — The Rabha tribal community in India’s northeastern Assam state have ushered in this year’s harvest by performing auspicious rituals in the ...

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said the government is constitutionally correct in holding the panchayat election in Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council (RHAC) area and Rabha students, who are ...

Guwahati, Sept. 21: From being a musician who lent his voice to some of Kalaguru Bishnu Rabha's popular compositions, to being an actor, film and documentary maker and adventure cyclist to Kabul in ...

Nestled in the eastern Himalayan foothills bordering Assam and West Bengal are two wildlife reserves — Jaldapara and Buxa. In between is a stretch of forest that is home to the matrilineal Rabha tribe ...

Guwahati, Oct. 13: You know of Bishnu Rabha the rebel, poet, singer, lyricist, actor and politician. Now meet Bishnu Rabha the artist. As many as 19 paintings by the versatile culture icon have been ...

The death toll in the troubled Rabha Hasong area climbed to 20 on Wednesday with the recovery of seven more bodies killed in group clashes on Tuesday, even as miscreants burnt a village and a vehicle ...