NGMA and Penguin in association with Imasi Foundation launched the YA Young Adults from Puffin Books with Guest of Honour Ms. Meenakshi Lekhi, Union Minister of State of Culture

The 2nd edition of The Listener, festival of oral literature, was held at Tetso College in Nagaland. The Festival Director was Sentila Yanger. It was produced by Imasi Foundation, MMGLD New Delhi, and INTACH Nagaland.

A literary biography monograph on MK Binodini Devi by L. Somi Roy published by the Sahitya Akademi in their Makers of Indian Literature series.

This complete collection of the short stories of MK Binodini Debi brings together the 19 stories in her landmark first publication, Nunggairakta Chandramukhi (1965), with 7 previously unpublished stories. A Special Student edition for the MK Binodini Centenary from Imasi Publications, 2022.

Centenary celebrations were begun on the 100^th birth anniversary of MK Binodini Devi by Imasi Foundation at Sri Sri Govindajiu Temple, with the launch of two books. They are Wari Macha Binodinigi, the Collected Short Stories of Binodini, a student edition in Manipuri written in Meitei Mayek (www.imasi.org/imasibooks); and Nil Sandhyar Agun Megh, the first Bangla translation of Binodini, of her play Asangba Nongjabi and essay Sri Bhavana, by Minati Ghosh (www.bhashasansad.com).

Twelve tales from Manipuri retold by L. Somi Roy and illustrated by Sapha Yumnam for Puffin Young Adults by Penguin Random House India.

Imasi Publications published Binodini's memoirs known in English as “The Maharaja's Household” for the Binodini Centenary (2021-2022) at Leikol's 99th anniversary tribute to MK Binodini Devi.

Penguin Random House India published the eBook of MK Binodini Devi's Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel “Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi”, translated by L. Somi Roy, as a Modern Classic.

Maharaja Sanajaoba Leisemba published Thoidingjam Lakshmipriya Devi's book on the Jalakeli, the royal women's choir tradition of classical sankirtan music founded in 1845 Maharaja Narasingh of Manipur. Imasi Foundation's The Jalakeli Project will be archived at the University of North Texas, Denton.

Publication of the translation of MK Binodini Devi's Sri Bhavana, on her student days in Santiniketan, in Crafting the Word, an anthology of writings from Manipur.

In "Pillars of an Artscape", a photography exhibition celebrating 100 years of Kala Bhavan.

India's first workshop on digital archiving was organised in collaboration with IGNCA and University of North Texas for 32 participants from 7 states in NER and all over India. The focus was the oral traditions of North East India.

Photographic Slideshow of "Of Art and Artists" by L. Somi Roy of Imasi Foundation on Binodini's years at Santiniketan, her art, and Ramkinkar Baij, the great Indian modernist artist she inspired, through the lens of her play "Asangba Nongjabi".

The Choir of the Daughters-in-Law (Mou Pala) of the Shree Shree Govinda Jiu Jalakeli Pala (est. 1845) of Imphal, Manipur, performs on the 43rd death anniversary of its founder Maharani Dhanamanjuri Devi of Manipur (~1886-1975)

The Jalakeli Project, a web-based, crowdsourced, women's oral histories and digital tech arts conservation initiative, was launched on Snan Jatra. It is based on the sankirtan ritual music of the royal women choirs of the Narasingh Lineage of the Ningthouja Dynasty. HH Maharaja Sanajaoba Leisemba graced the occasion.

Artist Vivan Sundaram delivered an illustrated lecture on Amrita Sher-Gil and Ramkinkar Baij, with special reference to Binodini at Santiniketan. With an introduction by Thoidingjam Tombi on "Binodini the Artist"and followed by a screening of Asangba Nongjabi (Crimson Rainclouds), telefilm by Aribam Syam Sharma with a screenplay by M.K. Binodini Devi based on her play.

Twelve extant plays by M. K. Binodini Devi, written for and broadcast on All India Radio were compiled and edited by Chongtham Kamala Devi and Dr. Bishnulatpam Tarunkumari for Imasi Publication's ON AIR: The Radio Plays of Binodini (ON AIR: Khonjel Lila Binodinigi). The little known genre was a form in which she was eminently successful.The book was released by Okram Ibobi Singh, Hon. Chief Minister of the Government of Manipur.

Artists and scholars from Myanmar and Manipur, and the world over, come together to talk about shared challenges of conserving cultural heritage in the performing and visual arts, architecture and monuments, crafts, literature, and media. Presented by Sangai Tourism Festival, in association with Asian Cultural Council, NYC and Laihui.

Zubaan's Cultures of Peace 2015, held in association with The North East Writers' Forum and the Heinrich Boell Foundation focused on travel writing, the troubled question of ethnicity, the media and women, new directions in writing and the translators' dilemma.Participating writers included Arzuman Ara, Surajit Barooah, Monalisa Changkija, Arup Kumar Dutta, Mitra Pukhan, Teresa Rehman, L Somi Roy, Anuradha Sharma Pujari, Ananya Shankar Guha, and T. Bijoy Singh, among others.

Artist Vivan Sundaram and his core collaborative team, references M.K. Binodini Devi as the muse of the Indian artist Ramkinkar Baij in the creation of 409 Ramkinkars, an installation-art-theater event. It was followed by a month-long exhibition of the installation.

Part memoir, part oral testimony, part eyewitness account, M. K. Binodini Devi's The Maharaja's Household: A Daughter's Memories of Her Father provides a unique and engrossingly intimate view of life in the erstwhile royal household of Manipur, bringing to life stories of kingdoms long vanished. This important addition to the untold histories of the British Raj was translated by L. Somi Roy and published by Zubaan Books publication, with an introduction by Prof. Nahakpam Aruna.

M.K. Binodini Devi's intimate view of life in the erstwhile royal household of Manipur, and an important addition to the untold histories of the British Raj, is launched at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Binodini: Forgotten Kingdoms, Remembered Histories featured Maharaja Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Burman and Imasi Founder L. Somi Roy in conversation with Janice Parriat. East South Asia, examining links between NER and its neighbors, featured Tshering Tashi, Deb Burman, Roy, and Wipas Srithong in conversation with Prashant Jha.

Calamity And Courage: A Heroine Of The Raj, Belinda Morse's 2008 biography of Ethel St. Clair Grimwood who escaped from Manipur in 1891 after the killing of her husband Frank Grimwood, the British Political Agent. The biography concludes with the revelation of the untold story of Grimwood's life following her bestseller My Three Years in Manipur. The reading by Lady Morse was attended by her husband Sir Jeremy Morse and two descendants of Frank Grimwood, Judith Macaulay and her daughter Katherine Macaulay. The book was released by Governor V.K. Duggal.

M.K. Binodini Devi's translation of Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's 1900 dramatic poem is brought to stage. The dialogue between a son and his long-lost natural mother has the preparations for the great war of the Mahabharata as its backdrop. Two missing fragments in the manuscript of M. K. Binodini Devi's 1966 translation from the original Bangla were supplemented by Nongthombam Kunjamohan Singh and Imasi Trustee Ratan Thiyam, who also did the concept and design, for this performance.

Samik Bandyopadhyay is a film and theatre critic was a long-time friend and associate of M. K. Binodini Devi. Perhaps the most eminent critic of Manipur's arts and culture Samik has been at the forefront of bringing an understanding and appreciation of the work of artists like Aribam Syam Sharma and Ratan Thiyam to the world outside Manipur. He has lectured extensively in the USA, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and England. Samik is the Founder-Editor of Thema, a small publisher based in Calcutta. He is also visiting faculty at the National Film Archives of India and the Film and Television Institute of India.