Dance, Shiva, Dance!

“Dance, Shiva, Dance! is a beautiful compilation expressing the left-out voice from the erstwhile colonies. Nurtured by a rebel-poet mother, Sufia Kamal, Sajed Kamal is an activist, environmentalist and an acute observer of the society. He visits museums, cities, countries, immigrants, forests, conservations: ‘The world is so generous: wherever I go it gives me everything’. Then he notices pain under the facade of paint and steel. He sees indignity inflicted on people through the centuries of colonization. He parodies the manipulative slogan of ‘development’. Kamal shouts—'History doesn’t lie, Liars lie!’. He celebrates the rebels and salutes the martyrs. He mourns with the natives and calls upon the dormant people to rise: “Dance, Shiva, Dance!”. Bijoy M. Misra, PhD, Research Associate/Faculty. Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University,Poet and President, India Discovery Center, USA. “Dance, Shiva, Dance! addresses serious global issues…It is simultaneously thought-provoking and a joy to read.”Asoka Bandarage, PhD, author, Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives. “Dance, Shiva, Dance! leaps across cultures, gives a voice to the powerless… and provides challenges to thepowerful on their own voice, self-claimed and ascribed.