Introducing the Literary Passport 🎫
Starting today, every reader on NortheastReads has a Literary Passport — a personal record of your journey through the literature of Northeast India. Finish a book from Manipur? You earn a Manipur…
Longer pieces — reviews, interviews with writers, and the occasional argument about what the region's literature is for.
Starting today, every reader on NortheastReads has a Literary Passport — a personal record of your journey through the literature of Northeast India. Finish a book from Manipur? You earn a Manipur…
There are over two hundred books in this catalog. Behind each one is a writer from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, or Tripura — someone who sat down and put…
Jim Wungramyao Kasom’s second work ‘Cradling Memories of My Land‘ comes in the form of poetry after his work ‘Homecoming and Other Stories’. Kasom renders the essence of the written art through poems…
Writing poetry isn’t an easy task. To let your raw emotions pour out for the world to see in the form of the words that best express your grief, your joy, your compassion and so much more.
The Legends of Pensam is my first Mamang Dai and I absolutely love it. This book is a collection shorts stories spanned within three generations. Mamang Dai weaves the stories around lives of the Adi…
The rich tapestry of India’s Northeast is woven with myriad cultures, languages, and stories that often remain unheard in the bustling narratives of the mainland. In an endeavor to bridge this gap…
Getting an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is an important step in publishing and distributing your books. An ISBN is a unique 13-digit number identifier assigned to books, eBooks…
This book might not exactly be one of the best of Kire’s books but the sense of foreboding and eeriness that this book draws is quintessential of Naga folklore. It has taboos, superstitions, ghoulish…
It is just recently that the written literature came into existence in the Tangkhul Naga community. Before the onset of the written literature, the Tangkhul Naga community thrived on the art of oral…
Kire, I feel, has that ingenious storytelling charm in her. The narrative drifts slowly and then it takes you by surprise. In a word, her storytelling is a revelation. One of her works which I have…