Mamong Dai: The Voice Of Northeast

Mamong Dai : The Remote Voice Of The Northeast

Mamong Dai (1957) is not only a journalist but a great author also .Her schooling is in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya. Though her native place is Itanagar in Arunachal. She got familiar after her book “Black Hill”. Initially she made début in writing as a poetess. Her first publication is a poetry collection, but gradually she wrote some fictions and novels. As she was the student of English literature, and from the childhood she took English language as her native language beside her actual mother tongue .all her composition has been written in English.After passing M.A in English from Gauhati University she got IAS but did not get the administrative service ,rather prefers to go in mass media and journalism. Writng was her first choice.So she started writing .Journalism and Creative writings both the sections meticulously she furnished and earn fame. She has been awarded prestigious national award in llterature “Sahitya Academy”from Govt of India.

Her non fictions are ‘Arunachal Pradesh:The Hidden Land'(2003),’ Mountain Harvest:The Food of Arunachal'(2008), ‘ ‘Stupid Cupid'(2008), ‘Once Upon a Moontime'(2003). She wrote some novels .The first novel she wrote is ‘The Legends of Pensam(2006)’. She has some anthology of poetry like ‘The Black Hill, ‘River Poems ‘(2008), ‘Hambreelsai’s Loom'(2014), ‘ ‘Midsummer Survival Lyrics'(2014) .

In poetry romance and romanticism was her main content. Gradually added mother land, society and people . Later she has composed some short stories in which she depicted the life and livings of the people of remote village life . We came to know in details about the hilly village socity , their customs and culture ,their love and sorrow and so on . She gathered old tradition of Arunachali society and portrayed it in her writings , side by side also described the upcoming modern customs and culture adaped by the new genaration .Eventually the reader comes to contact with the whole scenarioes of Arunachali society. In this respect, its historical and anthropological value is immence as well as fabulous. The readers will also be enriched with the folklores ,poverbs and folktales of this tribal societies while reading her stories and novels. She depicts the vallantry of the ancestors ,how they had been fought against the British. Reality and Mith both are used in her creativity, but never lost the sublimity . Her literary sense was sharp and unique . Ultimatelly, we,as a reader enjoy much all the time while reading her stories or novel.

Not even slipped the incident of bloodshed, her own room where she dreams ,she struggles within herself , can live alone , where none will disturb her . All these desires has been decribed there in her fabulous compositions. The another eliments of her writing is to use beautiful nature of this hills. The lakes sorrunded by the dark green forest or the meadows where remains a remote tiny village consisting of some houses built by Tinshed and there living some tribal families. Clouds and rays of the sun are peeping there. Mamong as if walking through the up and downing hilly path and listening the sweet songs of the birds . Sometimes she noticed the white swans are sweeming in the blue lakes . All the vivid nature are painted like a living picture in her descriptions. NEXT