TALES OF BLUE HILLS

Northeast India is considered one of the most culturally diverse regions of the world. In northeast India there are 145 tribal communities of which 78 communities are prominent. Northeast makes up one of the richest single linguistic regions with around 220 languages in multiple language families like Indo-European Sino-Tibetan Tai–Kadai and Austroasiatic that share common structural features. The selected folktales in this collection represent the colorful traditions and traits faiths and fascinations myths and miracles habitats and harmony lifestyle and livelihood of the tribal people living in the northeastern corner of India. Atrayee Kashyap a budding writer is crossing her 18 and doing MBBS. She has been interested in adventurous and thrilling writing. In contrast to this she has always loved to pen down heartfelt and passionate poems. For this debut she chooses the magical stories of some prominent hill tribes.