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The swiftness with which British colonisation is replaced by Indian occupation is mirrored in the pace of Kire’s writing here the characters have to readjust to a new normal: life continuing amidst torture, grief, anger and death. In the opening pages of her first story, she adeptly establishes the loyalty of the first generation (represented by Neimenuo) and their parents to British occupation, their hope and faith that the British would safeguard the Naga desire for sovereignty, hope which can never be rid off their equally deep seated dread that the British would betray them. Instead, the characters shine through in their authenticity to the times they are a part of, personally and collectively they are brilliantly crafted, a testament to Kire’s dexterity. It would be easy for the characters to become shadows here, dwarfed by the weight of a period encompassing over 50 years. Spanning three generations of women in a family, yet with the narrative lens placed only on the grandmother and granddaughter, we see the history of Nagaland through their eyes. But what makes Kire’s book so powerful is the deftness with which she has structured the three interconnected stories in Part One (from where the lines quoted above are excerpted).

This section alone would have been enough for me to mark Avinuo Kire’s The Last Light of Glory Days as a must-read for India (nomenclature I use as deliberately as Kire does). I was surprised that he knew about the Naga political movement and even more pleasantly surprised when he didn’t use terms like ‘insurgency’ or ‘terrorist’.” When I spoke of home, he didn’t ask ‘How do I get to Nagaland?’ for which I now had a ready stream of sarcastic replies, the final segment of the journey always ending with a bullock cart ride. He also didn’t make any puerile comments about Nagas and dog meat or enquire whether Nagas still practised head-hunting. “I had liked it that he didn’t ask me about ‘the Northeast’ like many of my classmates did, neatly clubbing the entire diverse and multicultural region as one singular province.

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