{"product_id":"the-adivasi-will-not-dance-stories","title":"The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.andlt;\/brandgt;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. andlt;\/brandgt; The Adivasi Will Not Dance is a mature, passionate, intensely political book of stories, made up of the very stuff of life. This volume establishes Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar as one of our most important contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44229476483132,"sku":"9789385288937","price":275.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9789385288937.jpg?v=1776778633","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-adivasi-will-not-dance-stories","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}