Easterine Kire Iralu is Nagaland’s first novelist in English, who has written books like A Naga Village Remembered, des-cribing the battle between British forces and one Naga hamlet, and Mari, set amidst the attempted Japanese invasion of India in 1944 via Nagaland. Speaking withKim Arora , Iralu discussed how her state became defined only by conflict, a fine tension vibrating between Naga and Indian identity – and the politics of publishing:http://zubaanbooks.com/big-indian-publishing-houses-dont-think-the-northeast-will-sell-easterine-iralu-interviewed-by-kim-arora-times-of-india/
