The adivasi will not dance : stories

Type
Book
ISBN 10
9385288938 
ISBN 13
9789385288937 
DDC
823.92 
Category
Unknown  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2017 
Pages
189 
Description
"In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich hinterland and the ever-expanding, squalid towns of Jharkhand, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar breathes life into a set of characters who are as robustly flesh and blood as the soil from which they spring, where they live, and into which they must sometimes bleed. Troupe-master Mangal Murmu refuses to perform for the President of India and is beaten down; Suren and Gita, a love-blind couple, wait with quiet desperation outside a neonatal ward, hoping - for different reasons - that their blue baby will turn pink; Panmuni and Biram Soren move to Vadodara in the autumn of their lives, only to find that they must stop eating meat to be accepted as citizens; Baso-jhi is the life of the village of Sarjomdih but, when people begin to die for no apparent reason, a ghastly accusation from her past comes back to haunt her; and Talamai Kisku of the Santhal Pargana, migrating to West Bengal in search of work, must sleep with a policeman for fifty rupees and two cold bread pakoras."--Provided by publisher. 
Biblio Notes
Notes:
The eat meat! -- Sons -- November is the month of migrations -- Getting even -- Eating with the enemy -- Blue baby -- Baso-jhi -- Desire, divination, death -- Merely a whore -- The adivasi will not dance.

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