Sociology literature folklore/orature northeast india

Dai is a poet and novelist writing in English. She was correspondent the Hindustan Times, the Telegraph and The Sentinel newspapers and former President, Arunachal Pradesh Union of working journalists. She also worked with World Wide Fund for nature in the Eastern Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspots programme.  Her writings range from the wonderful poetry book- River Poems (2004), Midsummer: Survival Lyrics (2014), the fictions The Black Hill (2014), The Legends of Pensam (2006), Stupid Cupid (2008) to the Children’s book Hambreelsai’s Loom (2014), Once Upon a Moon Time (2003). She received the Verrier Elwin Award for her non-fictional book Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land in 2003.  In 2011 she was honoured with Padma Shri. She was also former Member, Sahitya Akademi & Sangeet Natak Akademi. She lives now in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. Here Babli Mallick is in conversation with Mamang Dai.

A quest is a metaphorical or a literal journey undertaken by a person or a group ofpeople in pursuit of something. It is defined by Oxford Dictionayy as "a long or arduous search for something.
Quests have been the subject of literature throughout ages. It gained popularity in the romances of the
Middle Ages, especially through the stories encircling Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, to name afew. Quest stories have been an integralpart ofthefolklores of many cultures as reflected in the works ofthe Nigerian writer, Amos Tutola, who integrated the elements and tales of Yorubafolklore in his fiction. His most famous work, The Palm Wine Drinkard is a quest story, where the protagonist has fantastic adventures in search of his dead tapster . Quests may also result in a failure but the importance is placed on the experiences and self-knowledge which shapes the quester/s. The present research paper attempts to study fostering a quest hero in Easterine Kire 's When the River Sleeps.