Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 21 languages on Wednesday. Eight books of poetry, three novels, two short story collections, three essays, three literary criticism, one ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...