Naga Folktales Retold

Dr Easterine Kire is a Naga Writer in English with several novels, collections of poems, and other forms of writings in English in her repertoire. Writing poems in English and publishing her first collection of poems in 1982, she is not only the first poet to be published in English from Nagaland but from the whole of Northeast India. She wrote many radio and television plays in the 90s of the last century. Her "A Naga Village Remembered (2003)" is the first English novel from Nagaland.

Her Naga Folktales Retold is a praiseworthy attempt to retell some major folktales unveiling the rich traditions of Nagaland which are slowly going to be lost in amnesia. The collected folktales have been divided into nine sections telling mostly stories of spirits, animals and mysteries surrounding the lives of Nagas. The tales have deep ecological significance explaining the importance of places, events and people. They also explore the consequence of pride and explain ways of happy living implying that the lives of tribes echo essential creation spirituality and they have strong affinity with the animals. Narrated in simple and lucid style with the visual interpretations by Amenuo Miachieo, the collection is a unique contribution to English Literature from Northeast India.