Home is where the heart is.

Marija Sres’s first book of short stories on the Dungri Garasiya adivasi women was published in 1994, and won her a Gujarat Sahitya Akademi award. This is a sequel –           25 more stories on the lives of the women of Sabarkantha.

Short stories and novels don’t usually focus on adivasi men or women as their subject: they are not thought interesting enough. It is to Marija Sres’s credit that she brought the adivasi into Gujarati literature, and depicted their personal stories with candour, insight and pathos. To read these stories is to enter into “that mysterious world of the Dungri Garasiya, for whom nothing is sure except that they have learned to survive from day to day.”