Launch of “Tales of Human Mischief”

Launch of “Tales of Human Mischief” , a book by Nameirakpam Bobo Meitei

On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 10:00

Venue: Manipur Press Club, Imphal, Manipur

This volume includes a young writer’s fourteen stories, some of which can be called novellas as well. They are the compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight which clearly depict the lives of insignificant lots and the revelation of what they are subject to in a remote corner of the world. They also depict life caught up amid the conflicts between a virtually defunct system functioning with an absurd mandate and an armed movement which sprouted with far-fetched ideas and now transformed to a mere farce. “The Dying Man”, gives a painted picture of a reduced place where almost every responsible is a victim of fear and is only capable of vices, thus allowing the place to sink further without any light of hope.

In ‘A lost Kingdom’ one can see how collective naivety is usually so widespread and how the traveller sees this through his uncorrupt eye; ‘A kanglei Life’ tells the untold story of victims whose lives are synonymous to mere objects; ‘The Leader and his man’ relates how corrupt a place could be and how a prevalent ignorance of a people feeds malice; ‘Thoiba’ gives a detailed picture of how a young mind can be easily made a party to a crime, once stained he remains an eternal victim who shuffles between the worlds which he cannot avoid, while ‘In the City’ describes the characters, observes the places where they live with a keen eye. And “Lairen Chaodol” is the detailed form of an unrecorded folktale constructed and suffused with writer’s imagination.

The original stories introduce the insignificant characters, captured with clarity, which otherwise would have been passed as mere things drowned in the farce of a system virtually synonymous to autocracy, the repeated calls for human rights and poverty which has hollowed out every individual.