Seventy-year-old Temsula Ao is a pioneer of northeastern Indian literature, who was recognized with India's highest civilian honor in 2007 for her work. The author of many volumes of poetry and short stories, Ao published her third book with Zubaan. It was a typical summer afternoon, turning into another, predictable, oppressive evening. a heavy price for humans' aberrations. Temsula's poetry is marked by an insightful ecological sensibility which makes it relevant for an eco-critical reading and analysis. A grave sense of foreboding looms in the poem "Distance" (Ao 2013, 12) as the poet voices her concerns about an apocalyptic future. Search for Peace with Justice in NE India to build a nation-state on the basis of one dominant region. Forgotten in this effort is the distinction between the people who form a nation that gives the community or individual an identity and the state that is a legal entity with a territory and confers citizenship on the people. the north-eastern region of India act as a cauldron of memory. Be it poetry or prose, be it the pen of Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao, Nabanita Kanungo or Robin S. Ngangom, memories or recollections of the past have greatly shaped their identities in the present and its consequent reflection is seen in the kind of writing they engage themselves in. Exploring how ordinary people cope with violence, negotiate power, and seek safe havens amid terror, the stories of Temsula Ao detail a way of life under attack by the forces of modernization and war where no one—not the ordinary housewife, nor the willing accomplice, nor the young woman who sings even as she is being raped—can escape the Citations with the tag: AO, Temsula Results 1 - 5. Appeasement. Ao, Temsula // Indian Folklife; Jul2009, Issue 33, p17 . The article presents the poem "Appeasement," by Temsula Ao. So, like a true ecofeminist, Temsula Ao's poems echo the plight of the destitute, the marginal, the women and most importantly, raises voice for the