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Storytellers from the east
The Telegraph | Kolkata, Jan 30
Is there one Northeast, culturally speaking? Laughable. So some in the audience laughed as the discussion began on this note but three people sitting on the dais didn’t, they were patient, being too used to this question. They are writers from the Northeast and they believe that the similarities of their region lie in their dissimilarity from most other parts of the country.
The three writers, Jahnavi Barua, Chetan Raj Shrestha and Tayenjam Bijoykumar Singh, discussed and pondered a few other myths and notions about the literatures in English emerging from the Northeast. They were speaking at the Kolkata Literary Meet on Monday afternoon in a session with writer and entrepreneur Parthajeet Sarma.
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