Hasan's book of verse, "Street in the Hill", was also based on her experiences in Shillong.

"So far I haven't exhausted my interest in Shillong. When you are setting a book in a small town, you assess the town itself, its culture, its nerve. That doesn't happen when you base it in a metro.

"Shillong is the place that formed me. Probably if I were born and brought up somewhere else, I would have been a different person. It made me an observer. It made me the writer that I am," Hasan said.