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Mamang Dai

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Mamang Dai


Born
Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Mamang Dai is a poet and novelist writing in English, from Arunachal Pradesh in India’s northeast. Her mother tongue is Adi. Dai is the first woman of her state to have been selected to the IAS/IFS. However she gave up her career in the Civil Service to pursue a career in journalism. Dai was correspondent with the Hindustan Times, the Telegraph and the Sentinel newspapers and was President, Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists. She also worked with World Wide Fund for nature in the Eastern Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspots programme.

Her first publication River Poems hailed her as one of the most intensely poetic voices from the North East region. In 2003 Dai was honoured with the state’s Verrier Elwin Award for her book Arunachal Pra
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“We descend
From solitude and miracles”
Mamang Dai, Legends of Pensam

“The colour green always soothed him. It was the colour of escape and solitude.”
Mamang Dai, Legends of Pensam

“Remember, because nothing is ended But it is changed”
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