Growing up, Vasai Zimik Ringkhanring, affectionately known as Akhan, didn’t pay much attention to the collection of old shawls and mekhalas — wraparound skirts worn by women — overflowing from the tin and wooden trunks of her home at Sirarakhong village in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, unaware of the value of those historical artefacts. These family heirlooms, passed […]
