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January 19, 2021
Through the looking glass: By modern indices of development, the adivasis of Abujhmad are backward - V SUDERSHAN
Through the looking glass: By modern indices of development, the adivasis of Abujhmad are backward - V SUDERSHAN×
Writer Narendra’s latest book, rich with vignettes from Bastar and his native village in Uttar Pradesh, questions the State’s mission of corralling people into the so-called mainstream
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Sense of Home, read along with
Bastar Dispatches (published in July 2018), is a unique account of adivasi and rural life alike, based on the lived experience of Narendra, the writer. It is written in essay form not anthropological, not political, but as an utterly self-effacing participant-observer who submits himself to a milieu; in this case Abujhmad in Bastar, a hilly forest area in Chhattisgarh, and his native village in Western Uttar Pradesh, Ramala. So, it’s a work whose genre is removed from the self-conscious baggage of acade