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Anyone who is willing to look at the lives of the majority of mankind needs to read this story.this living tale will fill the reader with the way the poor since birth live and the way they disappear with little concern by the other human beings. the wrath, insults,humiliation, great rage, fatalism, blind faith on god, the mental slavery defines the workers life. The visual depiction of the coolies as sweating, dusty bodies, the factory as a dark dungeon , of big cities , rich elites, pavements is striking and occupies a corner in your mind. I think the current situation for the worker is not different from the one mentioned by Anand.
Kindly read this heart wrenching , brutally direct journey of Munoo,the coolie.

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4.0

Anand's story about an underprivileged little boy in pre-Partition India is devastating. No person, let alone a child, should experience the anguish and struggle that Munoo does. Yet, Anand manages to keep the tone and the events of the story varied enough to be interesting, even when they are disheartening. I consistently wanted to hear more, right up until the bitter end.

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