These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone
This touching and at times harrowing glimpse into the conflict-ridden Nagaland. More than half a century of bloodshed has marked the history of the Naga people who live in the troubled northeastern region of India. Their struggle for an independent Nagaland and their continuing search for identity provides the backdrop for the stories that make up this unusual collection. Describing how ordinary people cope with violence, how they negotiate power, and force, how they seek and find safe spaces and enjoyment in the midst of terror, the author details a way of life under threat from the forces of modernization and war.
No one — the young, the old, the ordinary housewife, the willing partner, the militant who takes to the gun, and the young woman who sings even as she is being raped — is untouched by the violence. Theirs are the stories that form the subtext of the struggles that lie at the internal fault lines of the Indian nation-state. These are stories that speak movingly of home, country, nation, nationality, identity, and direct the reader to the urgency of the issues that lie at their heart.
Temsula Ao (): The Naga writer’s literary legacy covers more than her stories and poems
“I have lived my life believing / Story-telling was my proud legacy”
— 'The Old Story Teller', by Temsula Ao.
The legacy of stories left behind after Temsula Ao’s death at the age of 76 is not contained within what has been published as poems and short stories or in her memoir. It is a vast ocean left behind for multitudes of readers and seekers to discover gradually. It is a legacy that will stand the test of time, for in her writings she pioneered the words and themes that were distinctly centred around the Naga community.
Temsula Ao was a storyteller in the same way as her ancestors, who passed on their memories and their wisdom by word of mouth, through dirges and laments or through exultations of joy and hope in songs and ballads. Readers of anglophone writing will be familiar with Ao’s poetry and her short stories, but to the Nagas and to the people of North-East India, she was a lot more: an educator, a government official, and someone who was to create a space and a distinct voice in the domain of English writing.
Born in Jorhat in Assam and taught in Assamese as a stud
These Hills Called Home
The Naga people of the troubled northeastern region of India have endured more than a century of bloodshed in their struggle for an independent Nagaland and national identity. It is on this uneasy backdrop that the stories in this unusual collection are set. Exploring how ordinary people cope with violence, negotiate power, and seek safe havens amid terror, the stories of Temsula Ao detail a way of life under attack by the forces of modernization and war where no one—not the ordinary housewife, nor the willing accomplice, nor the young woman who sings even as she is being raped—can escape the violence. Their stories spring from the internal fault lines of the Indian nation-state.
An important activist, writer, and commentator on issues in northeastern India, Ao speaks movingly of home, country, nation, nationality, and identity. A touching—and at times harrowing—glimpse into this little-known conflict zone in India’s northeast, These Hills Called Home burns with urgency and leaves its reader profoundly changed.
Temsula Ao (): A Tribute
Temsula Ao was a friend, a warm human being blessed with a great sense of humour and generosity of spirit. I have many memories of shared laughter and conversation with her, but this is a tribute to the writer, to one of our major writers in English, our first Naga writer in English, one who wrote poetry and fiction and non-fiction prose with ease. Temsula Ao wrote the Northeast (how she hated this homogenisation of all tribes and lands of the region) into all our consciousness and created the space for literature from Northeastern states in our Indian literary canons.
Temsula Ao was born in in Jorhat, Assam. She was orphaned at early age, her mother dying just ten months after her father. Temsula Ao and her five siblings were split up &#; the youngest ones went to the native village, the two eldest brothers continued their studies in Jorhat, and Temsula Ao was sent to Golaghat Mission Boarding School. Married off to a much older man before her Matriculation results were declared, all her subsequent education was after the birth of her children. It must be also noted that she brought up her children as a single mother. She did her BA from Fazl Ali Col
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