The Story That Must Not Be Told
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Kavery Nambisan
penguin books india,
288 pages, Rs 499
Simon Jesukumar, an ageing widower, aspires to do something worthwhile with what remains of his circumscribed, middle-class life. His aspirations are stirred by his nagging guilt about the slum next door. As the story plunges into the heart of the slum, Simon begins to understand that good intentions and small acts of kindness achieve little when faced with the problems of a stratum of humanity he knows next to nothing about.
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