Tarun Bhartiya, India

 Niam/Faith/Hynñiewtrep is a project Tarun has been working on for the last thirteen years. He has been trying to make sense of the idea of faith and identity and contestations around the questions of faith and nation-making amongst the Khasi Jaintia people.

Tarun Bhartiya is a Maithil documentary imagemaker, Hindi poet and political activist based in Shillong, Khasi Hills, India. His photographs and image essays have been published in magazines and as covers of many books. 

Tarun Bhartiya's films include "Brief Life of Insects" (2015, MIFF, Best Sound Award), "The Last Train in Nepal" (2015, BBC4, RTS award for Best Director, Factual), "Darjeeling Himalayan Railway" (Royal Television Society Award, Best documentary series 2010), Tourist Information for Shillong (2007) as well as music videos for several Shillong bands. 

As an editor he has worked on notable films with film-makers like Vasudha Joshi (Girl Song, 2003 and Cancer Katha Special Jury Award, National Awards 2012), "Red Ant Dream" (Editor & Co-Writer, Sanjay Kak, 2014), "Jashn-e-Azadi" (Sanjay Kak 2007). He returned his National Award for Best Editing for "In Camera" (Ranjan Palit 2010) in protest against the state fascism.  

His poems and their translations have appeared in various anthologies including Dancing Earth: Contemporary poetry from North East India (Penguin). 

He is a member of Thma U Rangli Juki (TUR), a progressive people's group in Meghalaya and part of RAIOT Webzine, www.raiot.in