Riverside Stories: Writings from Assam

Stories abound in Assam’s fields ponds rivers forests hills and cities. Most of its people wear each other’s clothes eat each other’s food and speak each other’s languages. Diversity and amalgamation are the primarily identifiable elements of people from Assam. Yet everyday patriarchy and politics of boundaries have resulted in so much confusion and conflict. Thankfully we are witnessing emerging voices of people who experience life differently because of their own identities and locations and propose an inclusive space for us all. The women and transpeople who have contributed to Riverside Stories come from this diversity and bring their stories of multiple experiences from Assam to the world. This collection of fiction non-fiction poetry and visual stories puts on record the experiences of the self the very personal within homes in the environment with politics and with disappointments desires hopes and memories for a future. In putting together this anthology it is our hope that we have complicated―more than it already is―the notion of whose and which stories can be told.