Amrita Dutta, ' Book Review: The Writer as Political Being', The Indian Express (19 December 2015).Sudipta Datta, ' The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Dark places', Financial Express (27 December 2015).Roy, ' Short!', Business Standard (4 January 2016) Jean Spraker, ' Review: The Adivasi Will Not Dance by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar' (27 October 2016).Namrata Chaturvedi, ' Combating bias', Deccan Herald (1 November 2015).Devapriya Roy, ' An unusual five: The reader’s guide to the Hindu Prize shortlist', Scroll.in ().Priyanka Tripathi,“The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.The complex life of a domestic servant, Sulochona.Ī woman's ill-conceived plan to escape an arranged marriage by getting pregnant beforehand.Īn old widow being identified as a dahni (witch).Ī sex-worker falls in love with one of her clients and hopes for rescue from her profession.Īn Adivasi dance-troupe is commissioned to celebrate the building of a power-plant, but instead protest against it. Human trafficking of low-caste Hindu people. ' Scions', Northeast Review, 3 (March–April 2013) The contrast between a spoiled child and one from a poor background. Prejudice among Hindu people in Gujarat, and the 2002 Gujarat riots. Prominent themes include the condition of women in a patriarchal society, poverty, middle-class Santhal life, the situation of Adivasi people, organised crime, tensions between traditionalism and modernity, the social damage caused by mining and sex-work. The characters and settings of the stories are mostly from the community of Santhal people in the Indian state of Jharkhand, particularly in relation to Coal mining in India. The second book by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, it was nominated for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2016 and included by Frontline (magazine) in August 2022 in a list of 25 books “that light up the path to understanding post-Independence Indian literature.” As of April 2021, this book has been translated into Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, and Bengali, while the Malayalam and Austrian German translations are forthcoming. The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2015 ISBN 9789385288647) is a collection of short stories. Jwala Kumar and the Gift of Fire: Adventures in Champakbagh (2018) The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (2014)
0 kommentar(er)
