The Santhal Pargana would now fly to the moon. Of course, hardly is the compensation ever economically just.Īll very happy with the progress, the development. Displacement is seen as unavoidable within this rhetoric and is therefore compensated for in varying proportions. The rhetoric of economic development rests on its supposed ability to create well-paying jobs. There would be development and jobs and happiness all over. Whole towns would be lit up non-stop, factories would never stop working for lack of power. The plant was to be set up for his own selfish needs but if he were to be believed, the whole of Jharkhand would receive electricity from his plant. The businessman, in fact, needed electricity for the iron and steel plants he was planning to set up in Jharkhand. The ensuing commentary follows the news about the setting up of a thermal power plant in Godda by a businessman. Sowvendra’s story questions the current model of economic development which displaces adivasis from their home-land. Likewise, subsequent posts in this series – English for Economists – will examine socioeconomic issues in the Indian context as found in novels and short stories (within the genre of Indian Writing in English). This blog post, the first one in the series, finds socioeconomic issues articulated clearly in the short story ‘The Adivasi Will Not Dance’ by Hansda Sowvendra Sekhar in his 2015 book with the same title. Economists spend time studying mathematics because it enables them to formulate questions in a precise manner and provides solutions to economic problems expressed mathematically.
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