How To View The Northeast Literature?

Instead of searching for new poets in English, Who are beginning to write And who not, It will be better If translate we the native literature available into English To have an idea Of the history, art and culture of the lands, Unfurrowed and unknown Rather than delving into the things in the making, There will be poets in English And we shall read them. From the Santhal Parganas of the Jharkhand pleateau To Darjeeling and Kalimpong To Assam, Tripura, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, What to say about, A vast tract of land, Full of dense forests and hills, The mountainous ranges, The treacherous Himlayan ranges Bewildering and baffling indeed, Where the ways get lost, What to say it more? Multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual, Tribal and aboriginal northeast is different From the rest of India And the theme of Indo-Aryan culture As the phraseology, syntax, vocabulary And the pronunciation Unintelligible, not understandable at all Barring a few of Assam, Tripura And the rest we don’t know. Buddha and Buddhism seem to engage the space And take to Burma, Tibet, Bhutan, China, Japan and Mangolia, Slipping through the passé Into the borders leading to know More about them, Their life and culture, Thought and tradition.