A Terrible Matriarchy
Easterine Iralu 
320 pp pbk
INR 295
ISBN 9788189884079
All Rights Available
“I was the youngest in a family of five children. I sometimes felt I was an afterthought, and maybe Father and Mother didn’t quite know what to do with me. Also, because I was a girl after four boys they never seemed to be sure whether to buy me girls’ clothing or let me wear leftover boys’ clothing.”
Young Dielieno is five years old when she is sent off to live with her disciplinarian grandmother who wants her to grow up to be a good Naga wife and mother. According to Grandmother, girls didn’t need an education, they didn’t need love and affection or time to play or even a good piece of meat with their gravy! Naturally Dielieno hates her with a vengeance.
This is the evocative tale of a young girl growing up in a traditional society in India’s Northeast, which is in the midst of tremendous change.
Easterine Iralu writes about a place and a people that she knows well and is a part of and brings to the storytelling a lyrical beauty which can on occasion chill the reader with its realistic portrayals of the spirits of the dead that inhabit the quiet hills and valleys of Nagaland.
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Three Nagas in Norway
Easterine Iralu
The present book is about the author’s experience of traveling to Norway and the new experiences it offered. While it is an amusing account of adjusting to life in Norway, with many encounters
of the cultural and linguistic kind, the core of the book also tells the Naga story, the tragedy of a race doubly colonised, and now, being further fractured by internal conflict and a people’s vain struggle for freedom.
Author’s note: “This is a telling of a story that is very personal and I slip into oral narrative frequently, discarding punctuation as the Yoruba speakers do. I hope to close the distance between reader and writer by this choice.”
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