Book Review

Book Review 3 May 2026 · 7 min read

Chaong Rangjang’s ‘The Anatomy of My Soul’

Tribal Bookworms [ Dr Bompi Riba ] After a period of quiet hibernation, I find myself returning to this space to discuss a book which was described by its poet as an anatomy of the soul. This book has intrigued my interest mainly because of the excessive pessimistic emotional register and made me wonder how

Chaong Rangjang’s ‘The Anatomy of My Soul’
Book Review 30 Apr 2026 · 6 min read

Reading In Between the Blurry Lines

Book Review [Dr. Bikash Mepo] In Sonam Chombay’s In Between the Blurry Lines: 14 Defining Moments That Shaped Arunachal Pradesh, the author writes with the keen lens of a bureaucrat. The book does what few outsider narratives have managed: it renders the “terra incognita” intimately knowable without stripping it of its agency. As Claude Arpi

Reading In Between the Blurry Lines
Book Review 24 Apr 2026 · 3 min read

Becoming and unbecoming: Charting identity and the emotional abyss

Book Review The Anatomy of My Soul Chaong Rangjang Notion Press, 2026 Pp.77 Price: 295 [ Dr Yater Nyokir ] Despite presenting itself as an age of freedom and comfort, the modern world remains shaped by invisible constraints of emotional disconnection, isolation, and unspoken expectations. Individuals may appear independent, yet they continue to carry the

Becoming and unbecoming: Charting identity and the emotional abyss
Book Review 3 Feb 2026 · 4 min read

Legislating memory, land, and belonging in ‘The Dance of the Last Leaf’

[Dr Yater Nyokir] In an age of glowing screens and restless scrolls, when the emerging generation stands increasingly unmoored from ancestral ground, literature becomes more than an art; it becomes an act of preserving the past and a space for reflecting on the future. For the tribal communities of Arunachal Pradesh, where history has long

Legislating memory, land, and belonging in ‘The Dance of the Last Leaf’