Seducing the Rain God: A collection of Short Stories from the North-East

Author: Smriti Kumar Sinha
Translated By: Ramlal Sinha
Publisher: Niyogi Books, New Delhi
(Pp 181, ISBN 978 93 83098 79 8, Rs 395)

A collection of fourteen translated short stories originally written in Bishnupriya Manipuri. Writers from Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh constitute the literary map of the somewhat secluded north-eastern part of India and provide a window to the world outside through their creations.