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Tiny Sparrows in a Dark Forest: The Voices of Assam
Review of How to Tell a Story of an Insurgency edited by Aruni Kashyap (India: HarperCollins India, 2020)
by Prasanthi Ram
Fresh out of HarperCollins India, How to Tell a Story of an Insurgency (Insurgency) is a polyphonic collection of fifteen stories, written in English or translated from lingua franca Assamese and tribal language Bodo, about the insurgency that terrorized the state of Assam for years.
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Very often in such an "embattled region," the human is invariably lost, buried under layers of politics, agendas, and conflicts. What Insurgency effectively does is to flip that narrative and, instead, re-center the human.
Indeed, these stories present us with a selection of characters from different pockets of society, whose narratives demonstrate what it truly means to live under "duress" in the "shadow of the gun" (Kashyap, Editor's Note).