Paraja

In Paraja we witness the oppression of the most disadvantaged, the disappearance of aboriginal peoples at the hands of corporate interests and the transformation of the environment. Issues that, unfortunately, continue to be as worrisome today as they were in 1945, when it was first published. Gopinath Mohanty anticipates with surprising clarity the disorder of the contemporary world through the microcosm of a village and a single family. The fate of Sukru Jani and her children is tragic not only because of the extinction of a tribal lifestyle, but also because it condenses the great neocolonial imbalances that characterize the 21st century. The history of the West with colonizing ambitions and civilizing missions cannot be understood without the voice of those peoples condemned to have neither a voice nor a history. The parajas immortalized by Mohanty defy oblivion and silence to which the relentless advance of "progress" seems to condemn them.