Amid The Political Turmoil, Aruni Kashyap Releases 'How To Tell A Story Of An Insurgency'

Author and translator Aruni Kashyap recently released his book 'How To Tell A Story Of An Insurgency' which is published by Harper Collins India, and it contains 15 stories about Assam.  

A former militant is unable to reconcile his tranquil domesticity with his brutal past. A mother walks an emotional tightrope, for her two sons – a police officer and an underground rebel – fight on opposite sides of the Assam insurgency. A deaf and mute child who sells locally brewed alcohol ventures into the dangerous territory through his interaction with members of the local militant outfit. How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency is an unflinching account of a war India has been fighting in the margins. Written originally in Assamese, Bodo and English, the fifteen stories in this book attempt to humanize the longstanding, bloody conflict that the rest of India knows of only through facts and figures or reports in newspapers and on television channels.

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Aruni Kashyap is a writer of short stories, novels and poetry in Assamese and English and a translator for Assamese. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian UK and the Hindu. He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Georgia, Athens.

He is the author of 'His Father’s Disease and Other Stories' and the novel 'The House With a Thousand Stories'. He has also translated from Assamese and introduced celebrated Indian writer Indira Goswami's last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar. He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and his poetry collection, 'There is No Good Time for Bad News' was a finalist for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and 2018 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry.

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