Small Towns and Rivers
Mamang Dai (born 1957) Is a poet novelist journalist and former civil servant from Itanagar arunachal pradesh who writes in English as well as adi language she is also an active radio and TV journalist covering news programmers and interviews for all India radio and doordarshan itanagar she was a programme officer with world wide fund for nature and worked with biodiversity hotspots conservation programme she has received padmashree award in 2011 and sahitya akademi award in 2017 Mamang Dai is a strong voice has the fragrance of her land and her people. The poem small Town and Rivers is taken from the collection of the poems the river poems published in 2004 The poem describes a landscape and nature where river is a dominant phenomenon Through the concepts like river has a soul and river knows immortality of water the poet makes us aware of the lively nature around her hometown pasighat and the enter nity of the natural elements she...