SMALL TOWNS AND THE RIVER BY MAMANG DAI DOCX

Title SMALL TOWNS AND THE RIVER BY MAMANG DAI
Author Bijay Kant Dubey
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SMALL TOWNS AND THE RIVER BY MAMANG DAI Small Towns And The River by Mamang Dai is a poem of Arunchal pradesh where she was born, of Shillong, Meghalaya where she read it, did her schooloing from, of Assam where her graduation with English Honours from Gauhati Universty and it all telling of the car...

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SMALL TOWNS AND THE RIVER BY MAMANG DAI Small Towns And The River by Mamang Dai is a poem of Arunchal pradesh where she was born, of Shillong, Meghalaya where she read it, did her schooloing from, of Assam where her graduaton with English Honours from Gauhat Universty and it all telling of the cartography and topgraphy of the Northeast of India indirectly, how it was in the past, how it is now, how the indigenous tribes and cultures of it in contrast to as well as taking us far for an ethnogrphic, socio-linguistcal study. A poetess from Pasighat, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh is frst an IAS, but for devotng more tme to journalism and literature she chose it otherwise. A recipient of Padma Shri from the Govt. of India and Sahitya Akademi Award, she comes from the Adi tribe with a folk base of her own deeply rooted into the soil of her land. To read her is to be reminded of Verrier Elwin and George Grierson and Jim Corbet. In the poem, one can mark the history and growth of towns, Indian towns, hilly towns and the history of struggling folks trying to shed ignorance as well as underdevelopment, moving out for job and beter opprtunites and also he feels towards the pull of the traditon of patriarchs or tribal chiefains seeing with the hawkish eye. But at the frst instance it is a poem of the river and the small town. But mythically it is a song of man and Nature, how the connceton is in between. The second thing is experience, the experience of life, the world, as seen and experienced and viewed. How the contrasts between society and development? How to clutch them along? How to myth and traditon with the stride? Small towns always remind me of death. My hometown lies calmly amidst the trees, it is always the same, in summer or winter, with the dust fying, or the wind howling down the gorge....

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