(4) ‘When the River Sleeps' isa novel by Easterine Kire. Itwon The Hindu Prize for BestFiction 2015. First publishedby Zubaan in 2014, the novelis about the lives and heartsof the people of Nagaland: therituals and beliefs, their reverencefor the land, their closeknitcommunities with theirnatural surroundings.