The Women Who Would Not Die

Speaking Tiger 2024

“Questions ripple through the collection: Who has the right to speak for others? Can a writer convey the experience of oppression when they are sheltered from the worst of it? And, finally, are there stories that cannot, should not, be told?”

Mint

Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries
Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency

Routledge 2023

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Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam

Routledge 2013

“…A work of high academic rigour of interest to political scientists, sociologists and historians, (that) would also draw interest of more general readers.”

Studies in Indian Politics

No Ghosts in This City

Zubaan 2014

“The stories are important and need to be heard precisely because we need a voice of reason in the midst of all the madness…”

Eclectic Northeast

Green Tin Trunk

Authors Press 2014

“… This is the kind of poetry that invites solidarity and action.”

Kindle Magazine

Where We Come From, Where We Go: Tales from the Seven Sisters

Westland 2015

“Folklore compiled with an ethnographer’s eye.”

The Sunday Guardian

Indira Goswami: Passion and the Pain (ed.)

Spectrum 2012

On feminist writer & peace mediator, Indira Goswami.


Making Peace Mutually: Perspectives from Assam (ed.)

Studio Nilima 2021

On community driven conflict transformation.


My writing transgresses multiple genres & disciplines to examine the intricate & intimate networks of personal & political violence in conflict zones. It aims to find pathways to social healing & sustained peace.

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