There is an effortless levity in Mamang Dai’s words. In many ways, her poems, while containing enchanting inner worlds, also contain the feeling of an intimate, personal feeling of “home” – and the ...

The house stood on a hill covered with bamboo thickets. It was raised on concrete pillars twelve feet above the ground and looked slightly askew, as if ferocious winds had buffeted it. The old wooden ...

BHUBANESWAR: There is so much to celebrate in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry and life, said Sahitya Akademi awardee poet Mamang Dai. Delivering the first Jayanta Mahapatra memorial lecture, organised by ...

How did it feel to be in Mumbai for the Tata Lit Fest and receive the Poet Laureate award? When was the last time you were here? It is a great honour. My first reaction was surprise, and I was feeling ...

Eminent author from Arunachal Pradesh, Mamang Dai, has been chosen for the prestigious Padma Shri Award, the fourth highest civilian award of the country in recognition of her immense contributions to ...

Mamang Dai is a poet and novelist writing in English. She was correspondent of The Hindustan Times, The Telegraph and The Sentinel newspapers and President, Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working ...

Recently, I came across an interesting book experiment at the Oxford Bookstore in Kolkata. Amid the usual displays of new releases was a pile of books, all covered in brown paper. Intrigued, I drew ...

Celebrated Indian poet Mamang Dai will be the Poet Laureate of the 14th Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest. Mamang Dai is one of India’s most evocative contemporary writers in English. Hailing ...

KOCHI: Mamang Dai is often considered among India’s most evocative contemporary writers in English. Hailing from Arunachal Pradesh, the poet and writer reflects the rhythms of the oral tradition of ...

Authors Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh have won this year’s Sahitya Akademi award for their work The Black Hill, a novel, and Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar, a work of literary criticism, in English and ...