Surya Ka Jalavtaran

This collection of travel accounts in Northeast India, The Descent of the Sun, introduces us to regions of the Indian nation-state that, in their lifestyle, dialect, and culture, are radically different from the North and Central India that we are accustomed to seeing as the whole of India in our everyday eyes. Reading through this book, we get to know a multicultural India, and its people who, despite differences in religion, customs, and clothing, make India a whole. The author has captured the details of Nagaland, which shares a border with Myanmar and where ordinary Nagas and Burmese people conduct their small trade activities across the border. Similarly, Manipur shares its borders with Myanmar. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Mizoram, and Sikkim, in all their diversity and beauty, are also present in this book. In these travelogues, the author doesnt ignore the political ironies that often take a serious turn in these regions. For example, the current problems in Manipur. However, the authors main emphasis is on the beauty evident in the nature and life of the people herea dreamlike beauty that everyone would want to see with their own eyes.