Prof. Senganglu Thaimei is an Associate Professor of English at Miranda House, University of Delhi, New Delhi. She is currently a fellow at The Highland Institute in Kohima, Nagaland. She received her PhD from the English Department, University of Delhi. Her specialization is folklore studies. Dr. Thaimei has worked on many projects at the Centre for Archiving and Academic Translation, University of Delhi, that involved archiving of tribal oral materials from Northeast India. Her published works appear in folklore journals such as Folklore and Folkloristics. Dr. Thaimei is also a visual artist and a published illustrator. Her illustrations are featured in Easterine Kire’s novels, Songry (2021), Journey of the Stone (2021), published by Barkweaver. She is a member of the Art for Change Foundation, an arts organization based in New Delhi. She has recently ventured into a pluralist approach involving research along with artistic illustration – an attempt to present a confluence of scientific survey, folk knowledge, visual art, and literature .