Speaking on the void in the marginalised communities and a need to tell their stories, Hansda said, “There is existing literature in vernacular languages. A year later, Hansda was reinstated into his job. The government’s actions were widely criticised and subsequently the ban on book was revoked in December 2017. In August 2017, the government of Jharkhand banned The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories and summarily suspended Hansda from his job, alleging that the book portrayed Adivasi women and Santhal culture in a bad light. I was suspended from my job and my book was banned in 2017 for telling stories about my culture,” Shekhar said.
The writer inside you urges you to go ahead but the safe cushion of a government job tells you not to do it. “It is like walking a tight rope, what you can say and what you can’t. Speaking to on the sidelines of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), Shekhar talked about the current times and challenges a writer from the Dalit community is facing. He also translates from Santhali to English and Hindi to English. JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN - “It is like a tug of war from the two sides and that is the challenge, we as writers are facing in the present times,” Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar shares on what it means for a writer to write about marginalised communities.Įthnically, Shekhar is a Santhal, one of India’s Adivasi groups. On the sidelines of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), writers reflect on the experiences of writing on the issues of marginalized communities in India.
Poet Meena Kandasamy at Jaipur Literature Festival.
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