![]() ![]() These voices are not hidden behind literary flourishes, or what he refers to as “classic literary tropes.” He doesn’t hide these voices in literary flourishes or what he calls “classic literary tropes”. He also fuses an Indian realism to his writing. Shekhar’s writing has a lot to do with characters who are weak in many ways. Shekhar captures a record of Indian life. His view of the world is not didactic, but unflinching. His stories are deft, compassionate, and sharp-edged. His work is filled with love for his people, a quality that recalls Baba Nagarjuna’s poetry. Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar is a writer to be sought out and discovered.’ –The Indian Express' no easy way to read this collection…Shekhar’s tone is calm, even low-key, but he shakes us out of our stupor with his political, ear-to-the-ground stories.’ –The Financial Express’The Adivasi Will Not Dance represents a collection of little histories that are contributing to the character of India as a developing, diverse and evolving nation…Shekhar’s work in this volume is a tribute to lives of struggle and marginalisation, carefully avoiding the exotic or self-pitying tone. Yet, there is no reason to imagine that politics overpowers the plots–his concerns are deeply literary, his style, effortles’ –Scroll.in' written from the margin, against the grain, and told with great skill and humanity. His voice is strong, urgent, and political. Shekhar is a writer who rarely appears in the literary establishment. ![]()
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