Em No Nahi by Tarun Bhartiya

December 2025
Published by Yaarbal Books
Photographs and Text by Tarun Bhartiya
Softcover Binding
6 x 8”
202 pages
ISBN 978-81-933492-7-4

“Em”—No—is about a refusal that turned into a rallying cry in Meghalaya, as 90-year-old Kong Spillity Lyngdoh Langrin of Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills turned away those who would mine her land for uranium. Tarun Bhartiya’s images and text distill that defining moment into a moving celebration of civic resistance. 

The pictures in Em No Nahi, and the brief notes that accompany them, are only a small selection of the thousands of images that Tarun left behind on his computer when he suddenly passed away earlier this year, an invaluable record of an ‘outsider’ reading deeply into the society and landscape of Meghalaya. 

The book is bi-lingual, in English and Khasi, and carries over 80 photographs, a moving afterword by Angela Rangad, Tarun's comrade in life and politics, as well as a special pull-out booklet A Very Short Guide to Uranium Mining.