December 5, 2025
Inside Dzuleke: How Nagaland’s rotational homestays work
Discover how Dzuleke village’s unique ecotourism model ensures every homestay earns fairly and sustainably.
Keletsino Mejura
Keletsino Mejura is an IDR Northeast Media Fellow 2024–25. She also works as a communications and documentation consultant with Northeast Initiative Development Agency (NEIDA), a nonprofit focused on rural livelihoods and water and sanitation access in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, and Nagaland. Previously, she was a documentation associate at The Entrepreneurs Associates, a Kohima-based nonprofit. Keletsino is passionate about storytelling, with a focus on gender, climate, and social development, and has written for many local publications.
Areas of expertise
Communications, social media, research, writing, public relations
Currently working at
Northeast Initiative Development Agency (NEIDA)
Articles by Keletsino Mejura
September 4, 2025
Wasting a city: Nagaland’s urban waste crisis
Nagaland’s poor urban waste management is as much due to poor infrastructure and low funding, as it is due to the slow behavioural change among its citizens.
January 15, 2025
All is not well in Nagaland’s oil palm plantations
Nagaland’s water-guzzling oil palm plantations are neither profitable nor good for the soil. But farmers are holding on with the hope that their fate will change.
December 6, 2024
In Nagaland, conservation and entrepreneurship go hand in hand
Community institutions in Nagaland have autonomy over land management and conservation. But the lack of a state conservation policy and funding have prompted nonprofits to turn to social entrepreneurship.
November 22, 2024
Rongmei youth in Nagaland fish for opportunities
Lacking ST status, Rongmei youth in Nagaland struggle to access government jobs. Entrepreneurship offers a way forward, but it comes with challenges.
October 23, 2024
A village of coffee growers in Nagaland seeks a better market
In Nagaland’s Sendenyu village, 23 families run a coffee farm together to earn their livelihood. But there are market challenges they need to overcome.
October 11, 2024
What is changing in Nagaland’s thrift fashion industry?
Digital and physical thrift stores in Nagaland continue to coexist despite a shift in sustainable clothing trends. But it isn’t an easy ride.
August 29, 2024
Photo essay: Women drive the dry flower business in Nagaland
Nagaland’s women entrepreneurs have turned their flower drying tradition into a sustainable source of livelihoods. However, they still struggle for government support.
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