Bio Note: Dr. Veio Pou is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi. His debut novel, Waiting for the Dust to Settle (2020) won the Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature (Fiction) in 2021. He is the author of Literary Cultures of India’s Northeast: Naga Writings in English (2015) and the edited volume Keeper of Stories: Critical Readings of Easterine Kire’s Novels (2023). His research interests include studies on the Northeast of India, oral/written interface, cultu…