Lords of the global village — Whose stories do we tell

The narrator is an outsider, both as a man and as a caste hindu from another town, in a Adivasi land slowly devoured by the mining mafias. The Mining company powers from faraway, Systematic violence of the state, religious powers, casteists of the villages destroy the lives of an extended family the narrator who is appointed as a teacher in the Girls school for Adivasi children gets acquainted with. As his friendships with the community grow, he struggles with his own place in the hierarchy of powers and privilege. He is accepted by many of the women as a partner in secret or friend declared by rituals. In their everyday life and protests, he plays the role of a witness. He struggles to involve and restrain himself from occupying. This inward struggle though not explicitly talked about is an important factor about the novel. Problems with most mainstream voices that write about ‘other’ lives are they either mythologies and venerate and thus alienate them in the way opposite to the negative stereotypes they think they are breaking. <a href="https://violetrees.medium.com/lords-of-the-global-village-whose-stories-do-we-tell-556b80bad7f8">Visit Now</a>