{"product_id":"the-adivasi-will-not-dance","title":"The Adivasi Will Not Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003echaracters who are as robustly flesh and blood as the soil from which they spring, where they live, and into which they must sometimes bleed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTroupe-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Adivasi Will Not Dance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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":"Dragonfly Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43455093538894,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/6711\/3294\/files\/AD.jpg?v=1771497951","url":"https:\/\/dragonflyreads.in\/products\/the-adivasi-will-not-dance","provider":"Dragonfly Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}