About Us

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Nocte Digest is the first online platform that is fully dedicated to preserve the history and culture of the Nocte tribe. Founded on March 18, 2016, by Shri Wangtum Humchha Lowang, ND started its journey as an ordinary Facebook page that used to upload photos and videos related to the Nocte tribe. Initially, ND was known as Noctes: Warriors of the Hills. The current nomenclature was given on June 06, 2018, and it is inspired by the founder's childhood-favorite magazine, Reader's Digest. 

When lockdown was declared in entire India in the last week of March 2020, Lowang was growing restless by the inactivity it offered. To pass his time more productively, Lowang thought of creating a website so that he can do more for his tribe, and not just collect and post photos and videos. Finally, on May 05, 2020, without any experience in information technology, Lowang created noctedigest.com with the help of GoDaddy. Since no coding was required in GoDaddy, the creation of the website was tiresome, but relatively easy. More than a month later, ND was launched in Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube on June 11, 2020. 

1. Promote the people and the attires of the tribe in leading social media accounts.
2. Write down the biography of renowned persons.
3. To become a one-stop station for scholars interested in studying the tribe.
4. Make books, articles and documents related to the tribe available in soft copy.
5. Help local artists and entrepreneurs by purchasing and promoting their work for free.
6. Protect all known historical sites, artifacts and monuments for future generation.
7. Preserve and record:

• History of origin;
• Historical facts since 16th Century AD;
• Language;
• Cultural and religious practices/beliefs;
• Myths and folktales.

0n September 8, 2020, Wangtum Lowang formed a company called Nocte Digest Studios and registered it as a developer account with the Google Play Console (Beta). 

Using the Android Studio software and the Java coding, the creation of an android application called Nocte Digest began at 1700 hours on September 16, 2020. 

The Android Application Package, popularly known as APK File, of the Nocte Digest was ready by 1400 hours of September 22, 2020. At 1700 hours, the APK File was rolled out for publication using the Google Play Console (Beta) and was then sent for review. 

In an attempt to promote the work of local brands, the Nocte Digest team works closely with various media companies of Arunachal Pradesh. As of now, 6 out of 7 companies are from the state, while the rest is from Assam.