What’s with the brows?
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Have you ever heard of socks as a way to tell generational differences? It’s true! Recently, during a fascinating conversation with my friend and...
Recovering hidden histories
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Hidden histories do not remain hidden - they linger in memories and stories, waiting to be rekindled and retold. Stuart Blackburn’s Into the...
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On Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s ‘Paharar Cha’
Human nature is such that we take people, moments and things for granted, until they are no longer around....
On Stories of the Headhunters of Arunachal Pradesh
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How many of us would agree with Socrates, who in his Phaedo, also known as On the Soul, remarked that a true philosopher always...
Book Review
A Solitary Place
Author: Ajanta
Bedakantha Books & Publication
Pages: 440
Price: Rs 595
The startling landscapes and striking cultures of Arunachal Pradesh have fascinated many sojourners who came...
Book Review
Once Upon a Time in College
Once Upon a Time in College
by Gumlat Maio
Notion Press
Gumlat Maio’s trilogy, Once Upon a Time in College, shares the...
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On anthropocentrism in Lummer Dai's 'Heart to Heart'
In recent times the news about the alarming rise in incidents related to dog bites, the reported...
Personal and ancestral history
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“Revenge is a dish best served cold,” is how the blurb of Yumlam Tana’s novel The Place Where Rivers Meet (2020) begins. It hints...
Himalay Ki God Mein
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Asok Pillai’s Himalay Ki God Mein takes readers on an adventurous journey through the mystical Himalayan hills, where love, suspense, and intrigue blend seamlessly in...
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Jab Adivasi Gata Hai
Jab Adivasi Gata Hai
by Dr. Jamuna Bini Tadar
Parinde Prakshan
Price: 230
Pages: 112
In the words of the great romantic, PB Shelley, “Poets are...
Book Review
Nyibu ritual specialist of the Apatanis
by Dr Radhe Yampi
Pages: 230
Price: Rs 450
Nyibus are believed to be gifted with the power to heal, soothsay, know...
On Bride Price
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Lummer Dai’s novel Bride Price brings literary expression to the traditional practice of bride price exchange in tribal societies, examining this age-old custom through a modern...
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Compendium of Indigenous Culture of Arunachal Pradesh
Edited by Batem Pertin, RN Koley,
Radhe Ampi & Hage Ampi
Pages: 252
Price: 300
It is said that books are the...
Legislating memory, land, and belonging in ‘The Dance of the Last Leaf’
In an age of glowing screens and restless scrolls, when the emerging generation stands increasingly unmoored from ancestral ground, literature becomes more than an...
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Indigenous Houses in Arunachal Pradesh: Manifestation of Traditional Architecture, Vol 1
Edited by Kanggo Tayeng, RN Koley,
Dr Radhe Yampi and S Chanda of the directorate...
On Ato1 Menlar, the unsung warrior from the foothills (A ballad)
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This song I sing
of a man called Menlar,
a convict for you
but a warrior for me,
imprisoned for defending
his home with blood
that rendered him
feeling trapped
and asphyxiated.
Never...
Tribal studies in India: Perspectives of history, archaeology and culture
Book Review
Editor: Maguni Charan Behera
Pages: 318+
Published by: Springer Nature Singapore Pvt Ltd
Itanagar, Jan 27: It is noteworthy that studies on tribes in India began...
On contemporary folk music from Arunachal
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Journeys can be interesting when we have so much to discuss in a little time with good companions. But if you have no one...
‘Resonance: Echoes of Life’ by Nending Ommo
Book review
The latest buzz among the literati of Arunachal Pradesh is Nending Ommo, serving as an assistant professor at Dera Natung Government College, Itanagar....
On reading Beyond the Frozen Hills
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Miranda Pertin’s Beyond the Frozen Hills (2021) is a breath of fresh air in the literary landscape of our state. What stands out is...