It is Getting Late and Other Stories is an English translation of Yumlembam Ibomcha's Sahitya Akademi award-winning collection of Manipuri short stories, Numitt Asum Thengillakali, which is a collection of 27 short stories based on a variety of themes drawn from day-to-day life. The first nine stories, written in a powerful, symbol-laden, and surrealistic style. explore the inner consciousness of characters as they confront the conflicts of life: the style of the remaining stories is more direct and traditional. All the stories, however, are distinguished by a warm and enduring sympathy for the common man whose lot it is to suffer and hope. For its brilliant innovations in style, its mastery of the short story technique, and its deep humane concern for the common man, this volume is considered an invaluable contribution to Indian literature in Manipuri.
Yumlembam Ibomcha (b. 1949) was born in Keishampat. Leimajam Leikai (Imphal) and did his B.Sc. and B.T. at Gauhati University. He began to write when he was just nine and published his first collection of poems Sandrembi Thoraklo Nahum Ponjel Shabige in 1973 and the same was translated into English and published by Manipur State Kala Akademi. Some of his poems and short stories have since been translated into Assamese. Hindi, English and many other Indian languages and Slovene (foreign language). He is the recipient of various awards, including the Manipur State Kala Akademi Award for literature (1974), the Sahitya Akademi Award (1991) and the Sahitya Akademi's Prize for Translation (2008). He was the editor of Wakhal (1985-1988).
It is Getting Late and Other Stories is a collection of 27 short stories, an English translation of the stories contained in the collection of short stories in Manipuri Numitti Asum Thengjillakali of Yumlembam Ibomcha which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991.
Yumlembam Ibomcha belongs to the genre of poets in the 70s, known as Angry Young Poets, who came forward with a more realistic view of life different from their predecessor throwing out the old tradition of expression with more bold and even vulgar languages.
Numitti Asum Thengjillakali is a collection in two volumes compiled in one book. The first part Eesing amasung atei warimachasing contains nine stories and the second part Nong Asum Churi amsung Atei Warimachasing contains 18 stories. In almost all of the stories, the main theme is the growing sense of aloofness, isolation and rootlessness of modern man, an alienation in the hostile realities of life where man find nothing but only to lick their wound inflicted upon him by the system of the society. Echoes of wail of suffered individuals in a fractured existence are underscored in all the stories. In fact, all the stories are poetry in prose, poems of pathos, of boredom, of stagnation and of nightmares.
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