Description

Bakha is just a child, actually appealing and happy, yet nonetheless he's an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple writing this novel describes each day in the life span of brush, Bakha and bathroom -solution, as he looks for a meaning to the existence he's been blessed into - and involves an urgent realization. Mulk Raj Anand put a vigor, fireplace and wealth of depth into his controversial work, which brought him to become heralded as his nation's Charles Dickens and among the twentieth-century's most significant Indian authors.