In this collection of five spare and poignant stories from Nagaland Temsula Ao holds up a mirror to the lives of everyday people beyond the headlines..A ‘Bihari’ coolie at the Dimapur railway station has been hiding a dark secret about his adopted son; a grave threat to both their lives. As her grandson is exiled from the village a grandmother finally breaks the silence over her mutilated funeral supeti. A rare lily refuses to bloom year after year because she was moved from her usual position i