{"product_id":"requiem-for-a-home-in-manipur","title":"Requiem for a Home in Manipur","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e“Hoihnu Hauzel’s book of poems is an elegy for her lost home and homeland. It almost feels blasphemous to talk of the beauty of the poems, when that beauty has been born out of the depths of human pain. Here are words written with tears, even though tears make poor ink. Read them reverently. Give them the honour that is due to those who have suffered so much more than we have. Hoihnu vowed to herself, ‘Part of me died that night. \/ I could no longer look away. \/ I knew I must rise, \/ that I would be their voice, \/ loud, unshaken. \/\/ Their undying echo \/ when the world tries \/ to erase them.’ And she has, she has. Powerfully and indelibly.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEasterine Kire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e“Hauzel’s poetry of hiraeth might well make you misty-eyed. Each poem brims with a sense of loss for a home once possessed, but now no more. Here is no mere sentimental nostalgia, but “a great and cruel” hurt that makes a mockery of the old proverb ‘Time soothes all longing’. Anthropomorphic, even pantheistic, Hauzel’s debut collection reconstructs the poet’s lost home from memories of gates, fruit trees, flowers, birds, photos, kitchen gatherings, trampolines, libraries, garages, and all the little things that make life spiritually complete. The result is an elegiac stream coursing through quiet and sometimes unutterable pathos, the horror of burnt homes and mass displacement, and finally, the cathartic relief of poetry. These poems do not rant about the gory violence perpetrated against an entire generation of people. Nevertheless, in their Darwishian lament and quiet resistance, they will never let us forget the awfulness of human cruelty.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eKynpham Sing Nongkynrih\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e~\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eHoihnu Hauzel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e is a journalist and author from Manipur with over two decades of experience in long-form and features writing. Educated in Imphal, Kohima, Shillong, and Delhi, she holds a master’s in political science and international relations from the University of Delhi. She has written for leading national publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Asian Age\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Express\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHindustan Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times of India\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eShe is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Northeast Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin), a pioneering work that brought the region’s cuisine to national attention. A Reuters International News Writing Fellow (London) and a Le Cordon Bleu–certified expert in gastronomic tourism, Hauzel also consults on cultural initiatives related to the Northeast. She is the founder of Northeast Odyssey and \u003ci\u003eThe NE Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, platforms dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices and promoting the region’s heritage and hospitality. In 2021, she launched covidtales.org, a digital journal documenting stories of resilience during the pandemic. She lives in Gurgaon with her family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Coin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54644990673187,"sku":"RHM2026","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/7166\/0579\/files\/requiemfrontcover.jpg?v=1768020689","url":"https:\/\/200911-2.myshopify.com\/products\/requiem-for-a-home-in-manipur","provider":"Copper Coin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}