How to tell the story of an insurgency
Subtitle: fifteen tales from Assam
By: edity by Aruni Kashyap
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Uttar Pradesh, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9789353576523; 9789353576530
Subjects: Assamese Short stories; Translations into English; Bodo Short stories; Fiction
Description: "A former militant is unable to reconcile his tranquil domesticity with his brutal past. A mother walks an emotional tightrope, for her two sons - a police officer and an underground rebel - fight on opposite sides of the Assam insurgency. A deaf and mute child who sells locally brewed alcohol ventures into dangerous territory through his interaction with members of the local militant outfit. How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency is an unflinching account of a war India has been fighting in the margins. Written originally in Assamese, Bodo and English, the fifteen stories in this book attempt to humanize the longstanding, bloody conflict that the rest of India knows of only through facts and figures or reports in newspapers and on television channels."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: In English, with stories translated from the Assamese and Bodo.