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By Mulk Raj Anand
Bakha is a tender guy, proud or even appealing, but none the fewer he's an outcast in India's caste process: an Untouchable. In deceptively easy prose this groundbreaking novel describes an afternoon within the lifetime of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a desiring to the tragic life he has been born into - and springs to an unforeseen end. Mulk Raj Anand poured a power, hearth and richness of element into his debatable paintings, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of many 20th century's most vital Indian writers.
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Lakha was shouting. ‘ No tea, no piece of bread, and I am dying of hunger ! ’ Then he frowned in the gruff manner of a man who was really good and kind at heart, but who knew he was weak and infirm and so bullied his children, to preserve his authority, lest he should be repudiated by them, refused and rejected as the difficult old rubbish he was. Sohini obeyed him at once, shouting for her brothers as she put the earthen saucepan on the fire. ’ Bakha alone came into the room in answer to his sister’s call, Rakha having slipped away to play, early in the morning.
Bakha half opened his eyes and tried to lift his head from the earth as he heard his father’s shout. He was angered at the abuse as he was already feeling rather depressed that morning. The high cheek-bones of his face became pallid with sullenness. His mind went back to the morning after his mother’s death, when although he, Bakha, was awake, his father had thought he was asleep and presuming he was never going to get up, had shouted at him. That was the beginning of his father’s subsequent early-morning calls, which he had begun at first to resist with a casual deafness, and which he now ignored irritatedly.
I have a pain in my side,’ said the old man to his son, as the boy came in and stood towering in the doorway, the whites of his eyes glaring. ’ ‘ Father, the Pundit of the temple wanted me to clean the family house at the temple,’ said Sohini. ‘ Well then go and do so ! why do you eat my head ? ’ snapped Lakha peevishly. ‘ Is your pain very bad ? ’ asked Bakha ironically, to make his father conscious of his bad temper. ’ ‘ No, no,’ said the old man irritably, turning his face to hide the shame which his son’s subtle protest aroused in him.