• ISBN13: 9789385932410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: June 17, 2018
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: INR 1000.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 590 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

This book brings you a wealth of stories, in words and images, from a part of India known as the Northeast, a term that is widely contest for the ways in which it homogenizes a region of great diversity. It is also a term that has come to be a marker of identity and solidarity by many who are of the region. Here, 21 writers and artists look at the idea of ‘work’ — from street hawking to beer brewing, from mothering to dung collection — and describe their lives or those of others with humour and compassion. Parismita Singh’s wonderful compilation of the works of women asks: what are the different ways of telling a story? What if we were to attempt these tellings through poetry and portraits and essays, older traditions like textile art and applique and new genres like hashtag poetry tapped into a smartphone? Where would it take us, wheat would the world look like?

Singh, Parismita: - Parismita Singh is a graphic artist and writer. She is author of The Hotel at the End of the World and a children's book, Fat KingThin Dog.