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NEISP is organising a lecture by Easterine Kire

NEISP is organising a lecture by Easterine Kire

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NORTH EAST INDIA STUDIES PROGRAMME
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES


Writing Outside the Box
 
Easterine Kire
Author and Poet
 

Naga writing, be it fiction or non-fiction, has undergone a terrible period of being defined by the Indo-Naga conflict. In the eighties and nineties, and even in the millennium, writing that did not feature some aspect of the conflict was deemed irrelevant by certain publishers and in turn, by the academic circles. This morbid obsession with the conflict and especially the violence generated by it has suppressed and tried to dictate literary writing with its demands and expectations.

This widespread malaise of only expecting Naga and Northeast writers to write only out of conflict related themes has been very damaging for the growth of literature in the whole of the NE region. The struggle to write outside the box has met with resistance but I feel it’s very important to concentrate on the other realities of the Naga world in order to capture a comprehensive view of the Naga world-view.

DATE: January 09, Tuesday, 2018
TIME: 3:30 p.m. onwards
VENUE: Committee Room, School of Social Sciences - I, JNU

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

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