Temsula Ao was a Naga poet, fiction writer, and ethnographer from India.
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26 Facts About Temsula Ao
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Temsula Ao was a Professor of English at North Eastern Hill University from where she retired in 2010.
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Temsula Ao served as the Director of the North East Zone Cultural Centre between 1992 and 1997 on deputation from NEHU.
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Temsula Ao was awarded the Padma Shri award for her contribution to Literature and Education.
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On 25 October 1945, Temsula was born to Imnamutongba Changkiri and Nokintemla Longkumer in Jorhat.
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Temsula Ao studied in Golaghat Girls' Mission for six years as a boarder.
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Temsula Ao completed her matriculation from Ridgeway Girls' High School in Golaghat.
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Temsula Ao was widely respected as one of the major literary voices in English to emerge from Northeast India along with Mitra Phukan and Mamang Dai.
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Temsula Ao's works have been translated into German, French, Assamese, Bengali and Hindi.
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Temsula Ao resisted clubbing of the Northeast as a composite identity.
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Temsula Ao learned about their culture, heritage and especially their oral tradition.
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Temsula Ao collected the myths, folktales, folklore, rituals, law, custom, belief system.
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Temsula Ao published a book of literary criticism Henry James' Quest for an Ideal Heroine.
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Temsula Ao made it clear that this did not mean abolishing of Customary Laws and they remain the bedrock of Naga society.
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Temsula Ao envisioned a special focus to make way for women into village councils, town committees, and Nagaland Legislative Assembly along with women's inheritance to parental property.
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Temsula Ao was addressing a legal awareness campaign at Kohima College.
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Temsula Ao called the campaign to acquaint young students to not only give security to their 'physical selves but to ensure their intellectual growth.
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Temsula Ao called people to report cases of abuse and ill-treatment of minors living as maids and domestic helps in Nagaland.
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Temsula Ao believed that the evil had to be investigated and addressed urgently.
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Temsula Ao pointed out that customary law are not well-equipped to deal with practices of human trafficking and police needed to intervene and play a role.
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Temsula Ao insisted on proper links between police, child rights agencies, labour department, social welfare departments, mental health agencies, and NGOs to curb human trafficking.
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Temsula Ao was the guardian, the voice, and the mirror of the Naga society who brought the everyday lives of the Nagas blurred between insurgency and counter-insurgency in front of the world through her poetry, short stories, and memoirs.
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