Oonga - Devashish Makhija

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This powerful film-to-novel sits deep in the clash between adivasis, naxalites, the CRPF and a rapacious mining company.

But at the heart is little Oonga. Desperate to see a performance of ‘Sitaharan’, he goes on an epic journey to the big city – to return as the blue adivasi prince of the forest, Rama himself! And, Rama-like, he takes on the gun-wielding demons who have swooped on his village. With echoes of real incidents, the book exposes the dystopia of ‘development’ and conflict of ideologies, complicated by the faultlines of language. Showing how peaceful people become victims of violence and are forced into battles they don’t want to fight.