The Adivasi Will Not Dance
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU PRIZE 2016
In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich hinterland and the ever-expanding, squalid towns of Jharkhand, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar breathes life…
If you like book The Adivasi Will Not Dance here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
Ghachar Ghochar
A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger hou…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but …
Buy this book on Amazon -
One Part Woman
All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages—have been in vain. Despite being in a loving and sexually satisfying relationship, they are relentle…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Em and The Big Hoom
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, lived four love-battered Mendeses: mother, father, son and daughter. Between Em, the mother, driven f…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood.
Buy this book on Amazon
Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves arou… -
-
-
-
-
-
Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
THE MUGHAL EMPEROR AURANGZEB ALAMGIR, who reigned from 1658 to 1707, is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
The Forest of Enchantments
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version.
Buy this book on Amazon
Th… -
-
Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift from the cosmos. Thus begins the story of Poonachi, the little orphan goat.
Buy this book on Amazon
As you follow her story from … -
Black River
In the village of Teetarpur, a few hours from the capital city of Delhi, Chand’s peaceful life is shattered as he is forced into a dangerous quest for justice.
Buy this book on Amazon
At the station house, the jurisdiction of… -
-
Sakina’s Kiss
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men claiming to have business with his daughter Rekha. He deals with them shortly, only to find his quiet, m…
Buy this book on Amazon