Kangleimaichou

If tales from one of the remotest corners in the world were never told elaborately with great care, embedding all emotions in the backdrop of circumstances, then Tales of Human Mischief is a young writer's genuine attempt to do so. Set in Kangleipak, which the author uses in place of Manipur, the tales are the clear insight into the psychological state of the people and the meticulous descriptions the circumstances which mark the place. The Indian border state has been a strife-torn place marred with prolonged armed conflicts between those fighting for sovereignty of the place and an Indian state ruling the place with a draconian law like Armed Forces Special Power Act which deserves no place in a modern world. The long short tales depict the lives of insignificant lots whose stories otherwise would have existed untold; the stories of those caught up in their own land and adversely affected by it that the created environment apparently shapes them as characters of avarice, br...

A wrong step Nonglei has taken haunts him and it turns a demon when he finally commits the crime. Since the teenager’s association with the violent world doesn't promise him any safety, he is secretly taken to one of the cities in mainland only to dilute his disturbed mind in the chaos of a city. Without leaving any hints, he arrives in the city of Pune. Time takes him through incidents and people, and offers him sufficient time for self-consolation, and what strongly replaces the demon is the ability to own up his violent past and tread the opposite path. But there is no return journey, he has to remain, like someone in exile, in the city which he has adopted with a job that can make his stay possible and also to support his family. His stint at one of the country’s prominent media houses exposes him to the deteriorating state of intellectualism, but it also introduces him love. Just as things appear to be getting better, the trouble that he has kept at bay re-erupts; his ...

While he busies himself in the streets of Kolkata making and counting green banknotes, Holy waits on him caressing her silent love with the certainty that the true love in Nonglei, below the surface of greed, will emerge. Only in her absence, he realises to understand the love Holy has nurtured, and with which she waited. By then she has already left for Phuket, but not without the promise that Nonglei will join her. Soon it occurs to him that he ought to follow her and prove his love on one of the beaches of Phuket. Adamant and ever surer, he sets out to find her. But what he discovers when he has traversed halfway is that the place, where she should be waiting for him with arms wide open, has just been assailed and flattened by tsunami. Through the wreckage and debris over the entirely flattened island, he looks for any trace of Holy. His earnest attempts proves futile, he, nevertheless, returns with the realization that his feelings are genuine. At this juncture he is le...