Leaves are falling. Yellow and russet leaves are throwing themselves on the ground. It’s Autumn. Summer is flown, there is snow on the mountain top, not just in the morning hours but all day. The leaves conti
Wednesday, 17th September, 2025
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Easterine KireThe reduction of life to digital meetings still makes me nervous. There are so many additional things to remember when going for an online event. On top of it all, how intimidating it is to be gre
Easterine KireIn an age when news reports on Afghanistan makes everyone feel their combined helplessness, charity climbs and charity runs are trying their best to lift up the human spirit that is crushed by the
Easterine KireI was sent a lovely volume of poetry by poet Achingliu Kamei. It is getting ready for publication and will add to the treasures of Northeast Writing in English.What are the songs of Raengdailu? Ac
Easterine KireWhat does editing do to your writing? I have often encountered people who write articles or full-length books who have a fear of editing. It is rooted in a wrong belief that editing means chunks o
They go out to get more education and work experience; they return home in coffins. It’s terrible to state it like that but the number of young North easterners being murdered in Indian cities is just too ala
Kevi Z Kevichüsa during the launching of her book titled ‘Nino’s Secret Garden’ on June 15. (Photo Courtesy: Instagram) Easterine KireA delightful children’s book has just been released this
Easterine KireMetaphorically speaking, it is a disease of the heart, the Corona Virus disease or Covid 19. Although it attacks the lungs and rapidly damages them, the wider ramifications are that it causes dama
Easterine KireBuilding up your immune system is always a plus. One is via food, the other is via something we have all given up long ago. Exercise. Let us rethink exercise. It is good for us, very good. It
Easterine KireWhat is Faith Kitchen? Who is running it? To what purpose? You know, all these are unnecessary questions. The most important thing is that this is an effort to feed the poorest during the partial
Last week I received a book report by ten-year-old Samana Wungsek on my new book, ‘The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man.’ It was frank and forthright, and I totally appreciated it. Young Samana is an avid reade
Easterine Kire‘Can you give a talk on the topic, Isolation?’ That was the question from a group of college students. Such a depressing topic. Instinctively, I wanted to say no.But after some thought, the po
Easterine KireCome to think of it, it’s very nice to be alive. Because, whatever the grumblers might say, there is still nothing else to replace it. And we all get one beautiful chance at it, beautiful becaus
Easterine KireI know it has become quite the thing to send around an embarrassing picture of a public leader on social media handles like WhatsApp and others. I recently received a picture that had been ‘forw
Easterine KireAuthor Shelmi Sankhil talks about ‘the new realities,’ in his debut book, ‘Flame on a Hill’ and the manner in which the community has accepted an uneasy but unavoidable cohabitation. The n
Easterine KireReading Avinuo Kire’s book, ‘The Last Light of Glory days,’ I had the startling revelation that as a Naga, I was reading fiction where at an imperceptible point, fiction stopped being fictio
Memory is our very fragile resource. Every day we are losing this resource as more and more elders die and take their stories with them to the grave. Many friends share that they have experienced the thoug
Easterine KireMaybe zoom meets will go down in history as the rage of the year 2020. We don’t have to go far to find out zooming is not for everyone. Call us stubborn or old fashioned, the numbers of people w
I don’t know of many people who are a hundred years old. Azuo Razoulhouü Vizol reached her 100th year in May 2019 and passed on seven months later. She was the wife of the former chief Minister Vizol. She wa
‘Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born until he has passed through death’ – Benjamin Franklin.One of the most beautiful things an 80-year-old woman said to
