Sarkar teen parkaradei thindana, narpitana, auru jiyam noipitana (The three qualities of governmentto beg, to terrify, and to make the heart ache) (p 16).
This is the essence of a reverse anthropologyan Adivasi view of the mainstream, literate world and its power structuresof how a tribal people in south Chhattisgarh perceive the behaviour of government people and their system, in their own language, Durwaa language we have probably never heard of. As such, these words contain the essence of the hellish situation that has developed in the region during the last few years.
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