Colour My Grave Purple and other stories – Shehnab Sahin

Description

Colour My Grave Purple is an unusual anthology of historical fiction from Assam which spans a century of the Northeastern state’s colourful past, evoking a vivid journey from the 1850s to the 2000s. Through stories about the peoples, cultures, ecology and socio-political paradigms of the frontier region, readers will stumble upon a fascinating mix of characters and entities; from occult practitioners and drunk elephants to a British- Naga queen and the Chinese red army. In these stories,

Assam will encounter Britain, Japan and China through lived experiences that seamlessly traverse the natural- supernatural dichotomy, while attempting to understand its own identity as a state. Weaving remnants of social unrest, taboos, inter-species conflict and cultural movements into an undulating canvas, Colour My Grave Purple makes an attempt to locate the making of the region, from modern-day Assam to a time that is now a mere memory.