Janice Pariat

Shillong etched and framed in beautiful sentences and memorable short stories...

A girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Written with political struggles and social unrest mingling with fireside tales and age old superstitions as the background, Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas – the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries.

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A beautifully composed book filled with love, longing, loss and life...

The Seahorse finds beauty in ways of life that are not treated as normal in societies...

A lovely read...