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"The Yearning of Seeds" (2011) is a collection of poems by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih where the poet has chosen to voice some pertinent issues engulfing his homeland, Meghalaya in Northeast India, such as identity crisis resulting from streams of influx of outsiders, loss of traditional values, nostalgia and ecological crises. This paper will dwell on the implications of large scale immigration of people from elsewhere in India to the Khasi hills in Meghalaya in the collective Khasi psyche as represented by the thoughts of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih as a Khasi poet concerned with social issues. This has been attempted to be done through identifying the palpable angst in the poems in "The Yearning of Seeds" about several social, cultural and ecological issues the poet has chosen to convey through his poems, many of which are repercussions of the Khasi people leaving their traditional values for the sake of hybridized versions of social conduct in the wake of exposure to alien customs and perceptions.
Dr. Farina Basumatary. “Nostalgia and Identity Crisis in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s "The Yearning of Seeds": a Postcolonial Critique.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2026, pp. 207–224. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n2.13.
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