Like most fiction from post-colonial, indigenous cultures, Temsula Ao's These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone originates from a land still in turmoil and gives a vivid depiction, in terrifying detail of the deepest dimensions of human experience of what happened in Nagaland in the 1960s and 1970s, referred to, as 'The Naga Conflict'. Nagaland, a remote state in India's North-Eastern region, is home to a group of about twenty-four hill tribes called the Nagas. Almost similar in race, culture and customs to the tribes of Myanmar and Northern Thailand, the Nagas have waged a separatist battle for autonomy since the end of the British Raj in 1947