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Silent Lips and Murmuring Hearts
Silent Lips and Murmuring Hearts (Mouna Ounth Mukhar Hriday) is a tragic love story set against the backdrop of an Arunachal Pradesh going through a process of transition.
Rinchin and Yama are two star-crossed lovers coming form different tribes who happen to meet during the construction of a road from Sakuto Bomdila. Rinchin is a bold and daring Sherdukpen youth while the beautiful and affectionate Yama is a Bangni girl.
Limited to the precincts of their own domains the tribes initially view each other with suspicion, Dilip Saikia, the field assistant for the construction of the road, takes particular care to bring together the tribes. He sees his mission to be not merely the construction of a road but to build bridges across the diverse tribes so that all their misgivings regarding one another could be done away with.
The process of lovers coming together is paralleled by the process of the gradual convergence of the two tries as they come to believe and accept that they are really people belonging to the same human race with merely superficial differences of clothes and customs.
Rinchin and Yama are two star-crossed lovers coming form different tribes who happen to meet during the construction of a road from Sakuto Bomdila. Rinchin is a bold and daring Sherdukpen youth while the beautiful and affectionate Yama is a Bangni girl.
Limited to the precincts of their own domains the tribes initially view each other with suspicion, Dilip Saikia, the field assistant for the construction of the road, takes particular care to bring together the tribes. He sees his mission to be not merely the construction of a road but to build bridges across the diverse tribes so that all their misgivings regarding one another could be done away with.
The process of lovers coming together is paralleled by the process of the gradual convergence of the two tries as they come to believe and accept that they are really people belonging to the same human race with merely superficial differences of clothes and customs.
189 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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August 30, 2025
It’s a love story at the core and probably endearing to those who can relate to the places or the customs described - that’s the only reason I stuck to it! I read the English translation of this book and it was difficult to read with numerous typos and no adequate translation provided for certain words.
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