A rare peek into life in Shillong from the p.o.v. of a Khasi girl
For most of us, the name Meghalaya would conjure images of verdant hills and rain-soaked bridges. In Daribha Lyndem’s
Name Place Animal Thing, though, the bird’s eye view of one of the wettest spots on earth sharpens into focus rows of eucalyptus on the roadsides; the Wah Umkhrah river snaking through Shillong, Meghalaya’s capital; houses fenced by hollow bamboo sticks overgrown with creepers; women in pretty jaiñsems, the traditional dress of the Khasis; and occasionally, hailstones the size of football.