Homecoming And Other Stories

by Jim Wungramyao Kasom

This collection of nineteen short stories breathes new life into the inner make-up of the people of Northeast India, the Nagas in particular. The stories are bound together with a strong sense of attachment to the mountains, of a oneness with them. The Nagas have lived in them for centuries. From the advent of Christianity in the latter part of the 19th century to the present times, the stories cover a span of one hundred years and more. The arrival of the Japanese in a small village during the Second World a woman battling a truck driver coping with a man crossing over into children visiting their mother for the last time, lying on her death bed. These are stories of ordinary people and their stories often left stories swept away in the cross currents of political upheavals. Modernisation is portrayed as no more than the growth of new skin the falling away of dead skin. Violence has little or no role in this process of re-juvenation. Changed reactions to familiar phenomena rise from change of alignments within.

276 pages, Paperback

About the author

Jim Wungramyao Kasom is the author of three books: Homecoming & Other Stories, Cradling Memories of My Land and The Last Free Naga. Jim’s poem ‘Philosophy of a Mountain Man’ was featured in the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2023. He was born in Ukhrul, Manipur and now lives in New Delhi.

Reviews

[Phor Schilt Kashung · Rating 5 out of 5]

How I love this book!
Took me to an emotional nostalgic journey of old lived years now passed like a sweet memory.
This are the stories which I could never get from other authors. Such heartwarming.