It establishes Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar as one of our most important contemporary writers. The Adivasi Will Not Dance is a mature, passionate, intensely political book of stories, made up of the very stuff of life. A collection of 10 short stories, ‘The Adivasis will not dance’ chronicles the atrocities perpetrated on the Adivasis by the state and the society at large. 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. The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015) is a collection of ten short stories written by Hansda which revolves around tribal life and their indigenous culture. Troupe-master Mangal Murmu refuses to perform for the President The Adivasi Will Not Dance is perhaps not a politicised writing. 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.
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