In her latest book, The Sky Husband, Easterine Kire explores the life of the Naga community through stories that meander through myth, history, and modern life, often silting its banks with the ...
The protagonist of The Man Who Lost His Spirit, one of ten hauntingly brief stories in Easterine Kire’s spare, exquisite new collection The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man (Seagull Books), blunders in ...
Years ago, when I asked a classmate what she was reading, she simply replied, “A book from the northeast.” It was a lazy, unhelpful description. Ever heard anyone say they are reading Jerry Pinto, a ...
The American artist Georgia O’Keeffe was consumed by the beauty of flowers for much of her life. She painted them with a near spiritual ardour — large, macro portraits of roses, birds of paradise, ...
316pp, Rs699; Aleph The gospel of Christianity first came to the hill tribes of present day north east India in the late 19th century. Within a few decades, their world was transformed. It is a ...
Easterine Kire’s A Respectable Woman is a welcome addition to the canon of war fiction written by women. Poet-author Kire is the first Naga novelist to write in English. Her new novel sensitively ...