Aruni Kashyap’s His Father’s Disease (2019) is a collection of ten short stories that highlight the untold sociopolitical atmosphere of northeast India, particularly Assam, while also capturing the complex experiences of Assamese immigrants in the West. Instead of creating a homogeneous Indian narrative, each story—unique in form and execution—incorporates diverse motifs that focus on how colonialism, racism, and xenophobia could transcend local, regional, and national boundaries to impact humanity adversely. Here, India becomes the colonizer oppressing the northeast; the stories, therefore, are about characters who represent facets of the colonial experience of northeast India, crafted in a style that evokes specific regional folklore.