The Laiphadibi dolls of Manipur, over the years, have undergone a plethora of changes. The Laiphadibi dolls, originally playthings and objects for ritualistic purpose have also been used as souvenir items because of the intervention of the British, as they…

It is interesting to realise how dolls have been a medium to give ‘life’ to inanimate objects, where people (children, to be precise) experience an inanimate object to do everything it cannot do in practicality but it starts to ‘feel’…