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⭐ Review Apr 1, 2026

Review: Spirit Nights by Easterine Kire

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 supernatural occurrences and disquieting nightmares. Kire’s array of folklore knowledge is commendable. The equation of the tribal world being set up in a patriarchal society is made evident throughout the book.

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📝 Article Mar 28, 2026

Review: Trophies and Survival by Hikano H. Awomi

The human head is the ultimate trophy for the people. It is the warrior’s prestige, wealth and status among the villagers and his fellow warriors. Villagers were wrapped around the notion that a person’s head was rich, containing the person’s wisdom, wealth, and all that nature had to offer. Thus bringing the head means bringing everything along with it.

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⭐ Review Mar 27, 2026

Review: Where the Cobbled Path Leads by Avinuo Kire

The pang of loss never seems to come in terms with the cycle of living human lives. Loss is lonely and excruciating. Avinuo Kire’s latest book, “Where the Cobbled Path Leads” addresses loss in an alluring and enchanting narration. A blending of folktales and traditional tribal mystics, Where the Cobbled Path Leads is a fantasy fiction. Kire, being the tribal she is, chronicles the spirit world of her ancestors by weaving a story that’s central to tribal identity.

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⭐ Review Mar 27, 2026

A Review of Love. Lust. And Loyalty

Yuimi Vashum’s Love. Lust. And Loyalty is a profoundly personal, honest exploration of emotions, questions, and confusion one experiences and feels as a victim of child sexual abuse (CSA); without rancor or self-pity, the book mourns the loss of trust and innocence, sense of betrayal, the immense self-doubt and unimaginable trauma, the anger and fears that comes with it.

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⭐ Review Mar 26, 2026

Book Review: When the River Sleeps by Easterine Kire

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 recently (re)read is When the River Sleeps. I have always enjoyed this text. This fiction paints the tale of one lonesome heartbroken hunter named Vilie and his ordeal to find the sleeping river that had appeared in his dreams for two years. Vilie, on finding the sleeping river, desires to fish out the heart-stone from the river while it sleeps, which the heart-stone, will give him cosmic kind of powers.

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⭐ Review Mar 26, 2026

Stories of the past: Recalling our ancestors in Chansa Makan’s Living Ghosts and Other Uncanny Stories

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 storytelling. Oral tradition, since time immemorial, has been a part of the Tangkhul Naga. Be it knowledge, folktales, folk songs, folk dances or history, the ancestors ardently passed down these to their children through oral tradition.

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