Samar S Jodha

Building for marginalised communities ! I first came across members of the Tai Phake tribe in the winter of 2004, while driving along the historic Stilwell road from Southwest China into India’s cloistered northeast for a documentary project. Since then, I have spent a large part of the past five years living amongst and working with members of this Buddhist tribe in Phaneng, a small village in upper Assam in North East India. Due to various reasons, this tribe numbers a mere 1500 today and is on the verge of extinction.