Indian

Question 1

About Raja Rao?

Answer 1

Raja Rao
Born on November 8, 1908, in Hassan, in the Mysore
His father, H.V. Krishnaswamy, taught Kannada. His mother, Gauramma died when Raja Rao was 4 years old. The death of his mother, when he was four, left a lasting impression on the novelist. This absence of motherhood is a recurring theme in his work.
He was educated at a Muslim school, the Madarsa-e-Aliya in Hyderabad. After that Rao studied for his degree at Nizam’s College. at the Osmania University. He graduated from the University of Madras with an English and History Major. He married Camille Mouly, who taught French at Montpellier, in 1931. The marriage lasted until 1939. Rao published his first stories in French and English. He participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. In 1943–1944 he co-edited with Ahmad Ali a journal from Bombay called Tomorrow
In 1988 he received the prestigious International Neustadt Prize for Literature. In 1998 he published Gandhi’s biography Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
Rao died of heart failure on 8 July 2006, at his home in Austin, Texas, at the age of 97.

Question 2

Summary of Kanthapura?

Answer 2

Kanthapura (1938)
Is about a village on the Malabar Coast, which became a part of the freedom struggle in the nineteen-thirties. Moorthy is the protagonist of the novel, who uses traditional Harikatha to influence the villagers with the ideas of Gandhi.
The British government accuses Moorthy of provoking the townspeople to inflict violence and arrests him. Though the committee is willing to pay his bail, Moorthy refuses their money.
While Moorthy spends the next three months in prison, the women of Kanthapura take charge, forming a volunteer corps under Rangamma’s leadership. Rangamma instils a sense of patriotism among
Upon Moorthy’s release from prison, he is greeted by the local townspeople, who are now united regardless of caste.
The novel ends with Moorthy and the town looking to the future and planning to continue their fight for independence. In this novel, Gandhi becomes a mythical figure in the village where there are mostly illiterate people.

Question 3

About M.R. Anand?

Answer 3

M.R. Anand
born in Peshawar on 12 December 1905.
Father: Rai Bahdur Subedar Lall Chand. He studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar(1921-24), University College, London(1926-29) and Cambridge University(1929-30). He was a part of many movements during his time before independence. He became the editor of an art magazine, Marg, the president of Lokayat Trust, Art Chairman of Lalit Kala Academy etc.
He won the Padma Bhushan. He met Virginia Woolf in London and showed her his short story, thinking that she will make him a part of the Bloomsbury Group
He went to meet Gandhi in his Ashram. He got inspired by Gandhi, who asked him to write in simple words, he started writing his novel Untouchable in his Ashram, which received warm reviews.
He died in 2004.

Question 4

Summary of Untouchable?

Answer 4

Untouchable(1935)
It is his first novel.
Plot
It is about Bakha, a sweeper who lived outside a cantonment area.
After a series of terrible events, he is beaten up on the street because he comes in the way of an upper-caste man who is himself responsible for the so-called crime.
His sister Sohani is molested by a Brahmin priest when she goes to fetch water from the Village well.
He listens to a speech of Gandhi where he says that untouchables must purify themselves from gambling and drinking and should refuse to eat the leftover from the plates of upper caste people.
In the end, he is thinking about the possibility of a modern toilet which will end in the dehumanizing work of scavenging.
This idea comes from the condition through which the so-called ‘untouchables’ go through. They have to clean the toilets themselves which won’t happen with the modern toilets.
Anand portrays the caste realities during the colonial period in the most shocking but realistic way. Although there is Gandhism which comes out prominently, Ambedkar too becomes a voice of inspiration in the novel.
It is his vision that believes in the use of western knowledge to annihilate the caste system. He wanted people to become modernised and educated so that the age-old tradition of humiliation through caste ends.

Question 5

Summary of Coolie?

Answer 5

Coolie (1936)
A Commemorative edition was published in 2004.
Munoo belongs to Bilaspur in the district of Kangra with his uncle Daya Ram and aunt Gujri. He is fourteen
The landlord seized his father’s land, and his father died leaving his mother without money. His mother died after working continuously for taking care of Munoo and Daya Ram. Munoo is been forced to help them in the fields and grazing shepherds. Daya Ram became a chaprasi in an imperial bank in Sham Nagar.
Munoo wants to live in the village and study. He is forced to go along with Daya Ram to Sham Nagar to work as a domestic servant in the house of Babu Nathoo Ram. He is treated quite badly by Bibiji, Nathoo Ram’s wife, who is untidy and horrible. Though there is Sheila, their daughter and Premchand, Nathoo Ram’s brother who are nice to him. He runs away after getting beaten twice, once for dropping cups and the second time when he is playing around with their daughter Sheila.
He takes shelter in a railway carriage. He meets Prabha Dayal who has a factory in Daulatpur. Prabha Dayal and his wife Parbati are kind-hearted and they ask Munoo to work in his pickle and jam factory. In the Pickle and Jam factory, he feels suffocated by the smoke and feels nauseating. Ganpat is extremely harsh on Munoo and at one time he even beats him a lot. Ganpat cheats Prabha Dayal and he had to leave the town to go to his native place in the hills. Munoo then meets a kind-hearted Elephant driver and goes to Bombay along with his circus team
In Bombay, he meets Hari, whose children’s life he saved on the road. Hari is a worker in the cotton mill called Sir George White Cotton Mills.
Jimmy Thomas, called Chimta Sahib is the manager there. Jimmy Thomas agrees to give jobs to his family and Munoo, for a meagre sum of Rs 30 altogether. They had no choice but to agree. They are given a small hut to live in, which leaks during the rainy season. For that, the foreman charges the workers separately. Munoo becomes friends with Ratan, a wrestler who works in the factory. He helps them when the rains come and takes them to his place, where at least there is a roof. Ratan also takes him to the red light areas to meet Piyari Jaan. Hari’s child’s hands get hurt while working in the mill, he asks the foreman to go to the hospital and was allowed to, but he will lose the job. Ratan gets into a quarrel with the foreman and gets dismissed. After that, the number of working days is reduced which makes the life of the workers a lot tougher. Some communist leaders want the workers to start a strike. In response, the management of the mill starts a rumour because of which there is a riot situation in the factory between Hindus and Muslims. Munoo somehow escapes from getting killed by a Muslim mob.
In addition, is knocked down by the car of Mrs Mainwaring, who takes care of him and takes him to Shimla where her house is. She nurses her back to health, after which he starts working for her as a domestic servant. She also takes works from him as a Rickshaw puller to carry her around at events and to the market. For Munoo, the rickshaw-pulling job is extremely tough as he has never done that before. He even falls ill once but is again nursed to be healthy. Mrs Mainwaring is mostly good-natured to him and sees him as a potential lover. Her husband Guy Mainwaring was blackmailed by her as she said that she is pregnant with his child. He took really good care of her but had to leave for England later. Her suitor Major Merchant used to come to meet her and used to behave badly with Munoo. Munoo is not able to handle the work that is taken from him as a servant as well as a Rickshaw puller and falls ill.
He finds a friend in Mohan, who wants all the Rickshaw Puller to go back to their villages. Mohan comes to know that Munoo has tuberculosis and is dying from it. The next day Munoo sees blood in his spit. He is admitted to the local diseases hospital, but his life couldn’t be saved. It is the combination of hard work and smoke in the factory which killed him.

Question 6

About R.K. Narayan?

Answer 6

R.K. Narayan
born in Chennai, in 1906 in a working-class south Indian family.
His father was a school headmaster. He uses to get transferred a lot that is why Narayan spent most of his life with his mother. It was his grandmother who taught him arithmetic, mythology and Sanskrit.
He also attended many different schools in Chennai like Lutheran Mission School, Christian College High School, etc.
Narayan won numerous accolades for his literary works. These include the Sahitya Akademi Award (1958), Padma Bhushan (1964), AC Benson Medal by the British Royal Society of Literature (1980), and Padma Vibhushan (2001).
Narayan died in 2001 at the age of 94. He was planning on writing his next novel, a story on a grandfather, just before he expired

Question 7

Summary of Swami and Friends?

Answer 7

Swami and Friends
Published in 1935, Swami and Friends is an Indian book published in English by Hamish Hamilton
Plot
Swaminathan and his friends, a group which includes Somu, Sankar, Mani, and Pea are close friends.
The friend group is introduced to Rajam, the son of a new police officer in Malgudi. At first, no one in the group wants to accept him as a friend, but eventually, Swaminathan and Mani do. That is why the friendship between Swami and Sankar and Pea diminishes. Swaminathan decides to join a nationalist mob to protest the British that occupies India. They throw a rock on the window of the superintendent’s office. Rajam’s father catches Swami and punishes him. He has to change his school because of that. Rajam eventually forgives him.
Rajam starts a cricket team called M.C.C. He wants Swami not to miss a match otherwise he won’t speak to him. The headmaster of Swami’s school, of course, does not allow him to leave early for the cricket game.
In anger, he throws his cane out the window. He runs away from the town of Malgudi. He gets lost in his adventure but is eventually found. In the final scene of the book, Rajam is on a train leaving for another area in India. Swami tries to convince him, with the help of Mani.

Question 8

Summary of Bachelor of Arts?

Answer 8

Bachelor of Arts (1937)
Plot
Chandran is a student of History. He lives with his parents and has a friend called Ramu. We see in his college life how he is involved in debates, feels scared during exams and also the college friendship.
But the friendship only lasted till graduation. He now is looking to get a job in a world full of competition. His education makes him want to throw all the conservative thoughts and become a modern citizen. Which becomes a reason for conflict as it is still a traditional country.
He falls in love with a girl called Malathi whom he sees with her sister near the river. Now he is always thinking about her day and night. When his parents know about that they first resist but then his father accepts his wishes. He approaches her father for the marriage but their horoscope doesn’t match. That is why the marriage doesn’t happen.
He is hugely hurt by that and decides to leave the place and goes to Madras. He stays in a hotel and thinks about becoming a Sanyasi. He travels to places and is respected as a Sadhu everywhere because of his intellect. Eventually, he gets bored with this life and wants to go back to his comfortable life.
It is too tiresome to be a Sadhu and that is why he goes back to the life of a householder. He gets a job in publishing and decides to marry according to his parents’ wishes. He is still in love with Malathi and looks at her pictures.
Finally, his father finds a young Brahmin girl named Susila for him. He first refuses to marry her, but later he visits her home he falls in love with her simplicity and grace. He feels the same desire that he felt when he first met Malathi.
Surrendering his spirit of adventure he finds peace and tranquillity in the domesticated life and returns to his roots and social function as prescribed by his Brahmanical society. The rebellious finally have to surrender to the traditional Indian values of family life.

Question 9

About Anita Desai?

Answer 9

Anita Desai (1937-)
She was born Anita Mazumdar in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. She is Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the MIT in the USA.
She worked as a professor at the University of Delhi.
Her works include, In Custody, Baumgartner’s Bombay and Voices in a City. Her children include the Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Desai.
She has received Sahitya Akademi for her novel Fire on the Mountain.

Question 10

Summary of Cry the Peacock?

Answer 10

Cry, the Peacock (1963)
Plot
Maya is not able to connect emotionally to her husband and is scared of death for herself or her husband as there is a prediction which an astrologist made that her marriage is going to end after four years. In a crazy sequence of events, she ends up murdering her husband.

Question 11

About Shashi Deshpande?

Answer 11

She was born in Dharwad, Karnataka to Adya Rangacharya a well-known dramatist and Sharada Arya. She has a degree in Economics and Law. She also worked as a journalist in Onlooker magazine.

Question 12

Summary of That Long Silence?

Answer 12

That Long Silence (1990)

That Long Silence, for which she won the Sahitya Akademy
Plot
It is about Jaya, who is breaking her silence of misery and psychological torture which she went through in her marriage. She tells us about her husband Mohan who doesn’t understand what she is going through and what she wants in life. He gets into trouble because of the financial irregularities he was accused of. Earlier he discouraged her as a writer but now he supports her because of the trouble he is in, but he doesn’t want her to write what is going on in their life. In the end, she is waiting for him to come and wants to reconcile with him

Question 13

About Kamala Markandaya?

Answer 13

Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004)
Kamala Purnaiya (married name Kamala Taylor)
She was an Indian Novelist and a journalist.
She was born in a Madhva Brahmin family in Mysore. She graduated from Madras University.
Her Novels include
Some Inner Fury(1955), Silence of Desire (1960), Possession (1963), A Handful of Rice (1966)

Question 14

Summary of Nectar in a Sieve?

Answer 14

Nectar in a Sieve(1954) is her first novel.
Plot
It shows the village life and the hardship of agricultural workers. Rukumani married Nathan in the family, which was poorer than hers was, but somehow manages the house because of her intelligence. She gives birth to Ila but she begs Dr Kelly to cure her so that she can give birth to a male child and she does not want Nathan to know about it. The novel discusses several aspects of colonial India where industrialization has destroyed the village families. It also discusses the inherent patriarchy within the Indian society where the birth of a male child becomes an obsession.

Question 15

About Amitav Ghosh?

Answer 15

Amitav Ghosh
born in Calcutta on 11th July 1956.
His father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the army.
Later, his father became a diplomat because of whom Ghosh travelled to different countries like East Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran and India.
Ghosh went to the Doon School in Dehradun
He graduated from St. Stephan’s College, Delhi University in History in 1976
Post-Graduation in Sociology from the University in 1978.
 He also did a diploma in Arabic in Tunis, Tunisia from the Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes in 1979
 D. Phil (PhD) in Social Anthropology from St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford University in 1982.
 He went to Egypt in 1980 to do fieldwork in Latifa as a part of that course.
He then worked in New Delhi in The Indian Express newspaper for a while

Question 16

Summary of Circle of Reason?

Answer 16

Circle of Reason (1986)
Plot
It is about Alu, a young weaver who is suspected to be a terrorist and is being chased by the police from Bengal to Bombay as well as to the Persian Gulf and North African places like Cairo, Sahara and Algeria. In this journey, Alu encounters several characters at several geographical locations. The novel has three different stories around three characters, First section is ‘satwa’(Reason) revolves around Balaram. The second section, ‘Rajas’(passion) revolves around Zindi and the third section ‘Tamas’(Death) centres around Mrs Verma

Question 17

Summary of Shadow lines?

Answer 17

Shadow Lines(1988)
He won Sahitya Akademy
Plot
The narrator’s family is divided between Dhaka, Calcutta and London and the family of Price’s who is a family friend of them for decades.
The Novel starts with Tridib’s description of World War II in London in his childhood and ends with the religious violence which killed him after Tha’mma comes home to save her Jethamoshai from getting killed in Dhaka.
We also know about the narrator’s fascination for use of imagination through precision by Tridib and being his shadow all the time as well as his love for Ila, Tridib’s niece.
Tridib is the protagonist in the narrator’s version of the story where he becomes a fan and a follower of his storytelling as he can tell about places without even travelling there. Tridib, who lives in Calcutta is a PhD scholar and he is leading a life that is not acceptable to his family.
Tha’mma, the narrator’s grandmother is the head of the house who became a teacher after her husband’s death and retired as a principal.
When she comes to know about her uncle that he is alive she wants to save him.
May is the love interest of Tridib who thinks it is because of him that he died. Ila is an independent girl who lives in London and who loves Nick. The novel has two sections Going Away in which Tridib and the Narrator travel to London and Coming Home where Tha’mma comes home to Dhaka.

Question 18

Summary of The Hungry Tide?

Answer 18

The Hungry Tide(2004)
Plot
The Hungry Tide is about the Morichjhāpi massacre in Sunderbans were three characters, Kanai Dutt a businessman, Piyali Roy an America based Cetologist and Fokir a fisherman who survived the massacre meet. Kanai discovers the truth about the Morichjhāpi massacre by reading his uncle Nirmal’s diary.
The novel discusses a utopian possibility of a place where the refugees lived a life without hierarchy after they left Dandakaranya to move to Sundarbans.
The state conflicts with the people of Sundarbans because they want to develop a tiger resort there so that foreign investment could come in and it can become a tourist spot.

Question 19

Summary of Sea of Poppies?

Answer 19

Sea of Poppies(2008)
Plot
Sea of Poppies is the first novel of the Ibis trilogy. It deals with a voyage through the Indian ocean in the times of the Opium Wars with China in the Colonial period.
It is the story of Deeti who was drugged and raped by her brother in law on the first night of her marriage.
When her husband dies she is forced to become a sati when Kalua, a Dalit saves her life and they become a servant on the ship called Ibis going to Mauritius.
Bhyro Singh, her father-in-law wants to find her and kill her and Kalua for marrying her. Zachery Reid, an American Sailor, Neel Rattan Halder a wealthy rajah and Paulette, a French orphan also become a part of the journey as well as other girmitiyas who are now Jahazbhais and Jahazbahin breaking all the barriers of class, caste, nation and culture.

Question 20

Summary of Gun Island?

Answer 20

Gun Island(2019)
Dinanath Dutta(Deen) is a dealer of rare books. He lives a life of a solitary in America, but he goes through a rare journey of Sunderbans and Venice in search of folklore related to a Gun Merchant(Bondooki Saudagar) and a goddess Manasa Devi. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who becomes a catalyst in the journey. Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man because of whom Deen can see Rafi, who is trying to help his friend. Cinta, an old friend who provides the intellect which helps him to complete his journey. It is a journey that will challenge whatever he thought he knew about himself or the Bengal, or about the world. It discusses the present-day world which is under a catastrophic threat because of global warming and Climate change as well as migration
However, we see hope in Deen because of the two women in the novel, Cinta and Piya.

Question 21

About Arundhati Roy?

Answer 21

Suzzana Arundhati Roy (1961)
She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Bengali father Rajib Roy and a Malayali Syrian Christian mother. She studied at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi.
God of Small Things(1997) and it got the Booker Prize.

Question 22

Summary of The God of Small Things?

Answer 22

God of Small Things(1997) and it got the Booker Prize.
Plot
It is about Amu and her two children Rahel and Estha. The novel is based in Ayemenem and is about the rigidity of caste in places least expected. It is about the casteism in the Syrian Christian community and also discusses the hypocrisy of some communists in Kerala who do not leave their Caste-Hindu ideas behind, even when they are communists. We also see patriarchy which is shown by Pappachi and Chacko, Amu’s father and brother as well as Mammachi, her mother. Amu and Velutha fall in love with each other and Velutha had to lose his life because of that. Even when he is a Christian, the Hindu caste system from which he converted doesn’t forget his being a Dalit. The novel has autobiographical elements to it as the novelist herself belongs to Ayemenem, and had seen things first hand.

Question 23

Summary of Ministry of Utmost Happiness?

Answer 23

Ministry of Utmost Happiness(2017) The novel weaves together stories of people navigating some of the darkest and most violent episodes of modern Indian history, from land reform that dispossessed poor farmers to the 2002 Godhra train burning and Kashmir insurgency. Roy’s characters run the gamut of Indian society and include an intersex woman (hijra), a rebellious architect, and her landlord who is a supervisor in the intelligence service. The narrative spans decades and locations but primarily takes place in Delhi and Kashmir.

Question 24

Summary of Difficult Daughters?

Answer 24

Manju Kapur(1948- ) has written novels like Difficult Daughters(1998), A Married Woman(2003), Home (2006), The Immigrant 2008, and Custody (2011) 
Difficult Daughters is about Virmati and her romance and marriage with a professor called Mahesh. It is a story of a girl who is educated, yet who had to be against her family to marry the man she loved. Though in the end, the man she married was not ready to leave his first wife, Ganga because of her ability to look after the house. He wanted both of his wives, one for the work she did in the house, and the other for her beauty and intellect.

Question 25

About Salman Rushdie?

Answer 25

Salman Rushdie (1947-)
Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai). He has UK citizenship right now. He got educated in Cathedral and John Cannon School and King’s College, Cambridge University,
He got death threats including a Fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini for writing Satanic Verses. His work Shame and Satanic Verses were banned in India.
His works include

Question 26

Summary of Midnight’s Children?

Answer 26

Midnight’s Children (1981), catapulted him to literary notability. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years.
Plot
It follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age in the history of the Indian sub-continent and the birth of the modern nation of India. The character of Saleem Sinai has been compared to Rushdie.

Question 27

About Kiran Desai?

Answer 27

Kiran Desai (1971-)
She was born in New Delhi India to Anita Desai. She studied at Cathedral and John Connon School and Bennington College, Hollings University and Columbia University. Her work also includes Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998)

Question 28

Summary of The Inheritance of Loss?

Answer 28

The Inheritance of Loss (2006)
It won the Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle.
Plot
It is about Biju and Sai. Biju is the son of the cook of Sai’s Grandfather. He lives in the US illegally to work as a cook. Sai lives in Kalimpong with her Grandfather Jemubhai Patel and a dog named Mutt. Her father was Zorastrian and her mother was Gujarati. Her grandfather is so anglicized that he eats chapatis with a fork and knife. She is taught by Noni for many years.
Sai has a relationship with Gyan, who comes to teach her and who is involved in the Gorkhaland movement. He resents her for being too westernized. The GNFL also raids the judge’s house to steal guns after Gyan tells them about it. There is a violent outbreak that results badly for the community. When the violence increases, Sai and Gyan have arguments over that. Later Gyan regrets leaving her for GNLF. The judge beats the cook for not finding the dog that was stolen by a Nepali.
Biju moves from one kitchen to another illegally for work. He misses home and decides to work for a Hindu restaurant. He decides to go back after living through hell at the restaurant. Sai could see him coming from the distance at the end wearing women clothes as the GNLF has robbed him.

Question 29

Summary of The White Tiger?

Answer 29

Arvind Adiga (1974-)
The White Tiger (2008)
Won the Man Booker Prize.
It has been adapted into a movie by Ramin Bahrani in 2020 on Netflix.
Plot
It is about Balram Halwai who narrates in his letter to the Chinese Premier about his life. He was born in a rural village in Gaya where he is not able to complete his education. He starts working in a tea shop in Dhanbad where he starts to catch up on the conversations about the government and economy from the customers. He learns how to drive and finds a job as the driver of Ashok, the son of the landlord of Laxmangarh. After getting recognition from his master he stops sending money to his family. He moves to Delhi where Ashok’s wife Pinky hits someone which they presume to be a child. Balram has to confess that it was he who killed the child.
Ashok bribes government officials to get benefits in their coal business. Balram kills Ashok to escape the poverty-ridden life after running away with the money. He is trapped in the rooster coop and wants to go out of the cage. He pays to a child whose father is killed by a taxi driver from his company. He tries to justify his killing of his master to escape the life he was living to become an entrepreneur owning a taxi company.

Question 30

About Rohinton Mistry?

Answer 30

Rohinton Mistry
He is a Canadian Indian writer born in Bombay in a Parsi family. His brother is Cyrus Mistry another well-known writer. He studied at St. Xavier College, Bombay.
He married Freny Elavia and moved to Canada and has been living there since then. His other important work is Such a Long Journey for which he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Question 31

Summary of The Fine Balance?

Answer 31

The Fine Balance (1995)
It won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker prize
Plot
It is about Maneck Kohlah, a college student living in Mumbai. He meets Ishvar Darji and Omprakash Darji who are going to Dina Dalal’s place to find a job as a tailor. Dina hires them to work from patterns that are given by Au Revoir Exports. She manages her finances to avoid going back to her brother.
Darjis learnt the job of tailors to escape their village as they were ‘untouchables’ and oppressed by the upper castes like Thakur Dharmsi, who killed the whole Darji family as Ishwar’s brother challenged him.
Maneck lives there to learn refrigeration and air-conditioning. He doesn’t like to live in the student home. He lives with Dina as she is her mother’s friend. He becomes friends with Om. Maneck has to make a fine balance between hope and despair as he watches people living poor life. Dina is always harassed by the rent collector, but argues that Om and Maneck are her sons and Ishwar is her husband.
Ishwar and Om go back to their village for marriage where Om spits at Thakur. Thakur takes revenge by getting Om castrated in the government’s voluntary sterilization program. Ishwar has to cut his legs as his blood gets poised after the surgery.
Maneck gets a job in Dubai and returns only after the death of his father. Dina has to live with her brother. He finds out that the tailors are begging on the road. He couldn’t acknowledge his friends as they are wearing tattered clothes as beggars. Dina feeds them when all the family members are outside. They make her laugh and she helps them by making their seat cushions.