By Shashi Singh
Ranchi, Aug. 4 -- Shibu Soren did not begin his life with the ambition to govern. Born in 1944 in a modest tribal household in Nemra village, Ramgarh, he grew up witnessing systemic injustice, and lived the brutal reality of land seizures, forest exclusion, and social alienation. He didn't enter politics for power. He entered it because people like him had no power.
In that sense, Shibu Soren never really left the movement even after becoming the government.
Known widely as Dishom Guru, Soren was many things at once - a folk hero, a feared agitator, a reluctant administrator, and, above all, the unflinching voice of Jharkhand's tribal soul. He spent his early political years organising 'hul" (rebellions) against land dispo...