The author, Hijam Monarsingh Dallo Rihmo is a Manipuri writer and poet whose work transforms political violence, indigenous memory, and fractured identities into mythic and allegorical literature with Manipuri aesthetics. Writing from within a conflict zone, he blends history, folklore, and philosophical inquiry to examine power, belonging, and civilizational rupture. His multi-volume project The Weeping Gods of Manipur, stands among the most ambitious contemporary literary attempts to narrate Manipur’s crisis from an internal moral and cultural perspective.