We are excited to host a discussion around The Greatest Stories from the Northeast Ever Told, with Ramzauva Chhakchhuak, Anjum Hasan and Jobeth Ann Warjri, moderated by Leki Thungon, at Champaca Bookstore, Vasanth Nagar.
Here are all the event details:
Date: Saturday, 28 March
Time: 6:00 PM onwards
Venue: Champaca Bookstore, Vasanth Nagar
Since seats are limited, we request you to RSVP HERE to book your spot.
About the book
Selected and edited by Jobeth Ann Warjri, The Greatest Stories from the Northeast Ever Told brings together twenty-seven short stories from across the region, featuring both celebrated and emerging writers. The collection moves through political unrest, everyday intimacies, myth, desire, queerness and ecological dread to offer a many-voiced, unforgettable portrait of the Northeast—at once tender and turbulent, magical and real.
About the speakers
Ramzauva Chhakchhuak is a writer from Shillong, now based in Bengaluru; his fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in Himal Southasia, Helter Skelter Magazine, NatGeo Traveller and The Hindu BusinessLine, and he is currently working on his debut novel.
Anjum Hasan is the author of the novels History’s Angel, The Cosmopolitans, Neti, Neti and Lunatic in my Head, and the short story collections A Day in the Life and Difficult Pleasures; her forthcoming non-fiction book Hometown is about Shillong.
Jobeth Ann Warjri is a writer, teacher and researcher from Laitkor, Meghalaya, winner of The Book Review Literary Trust Short Story Competition 2020; her work has appeared in The Thief’s Funeral, We Come from Mist: Writings from Meghalaya, Indian Literature and other magazines, and she teaches writing at Vidyashilp University in Bangalore.
Leki Thungon is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at McGill University whose research focuses on the Nellie massacre in Assam; her writing appears in Inheritance of Words: Writings from Arunachal Pradesh and Homeward: A Poetics of Space, and she is currently working on a children’s book.