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is a continuation of good writing by kavery Need to rereadrushed this one because my ILL copy from Northeastern Illinois University was overdue, But ample evidence that Nambisan is still my favorite contemporary Indian writer, Too bad she hasn't found an American publisher! Complex, layered narrative of the material and emotional connections people in an apartment with those who live in a neighbouring slum.


I found it meandering at the beginning and the selection of certain adjectives quite odd , I prefer a glossary to weaving contrived attempts at fitting the meanings of nonEnglish words in the prose, It attempts to challenge stereotypes of slumdwellers and their perspectives on charity work, but ends up nauseatingly reinforcing them, There are so many people and so things happening in this novel, that would be easy to dismiss as a metaphor for urban chaos, just for how crowded it feels.


The more I think about it, the more problematic it appears, mainly because it is not clear who the intended audience for this book is, This was a very moving and gripping tale, I won't go through the plot as that's already been covered by other reviewers, What makes a good read a great one is that ultimate ability of the writer to draw the reader into the protagonist's mind, Kavery does that with consummate skill,

We can all relate to Simons condition: the burning desire to alleviate the lot of the desperately poor, With her sympathetic telling of this poignant Story, with its wellcrafted characters, Kavery connects us to Simons ultimate impotence and makes us face our own, A poignant,

unsettling and incisively thoughtprovoking new novel by critically acclaimed authorKavery Nambisan

"The poor will not go away, There are too many of them, Looking for work, for food, for a place to live, a place to shit, And what do people like you, the Vaibhav people, say “Stop dirtying our neighbourhood, ” You will soon be asking the government to throw us out of here, Why A Right to Shit card, Thats what we need. The Right to LiveYou want the people here to accept kindness on your terms, You do it as a favour, an apology for being rich, Is it any wonder that the beggar who accepts your coin and touches it to his forehead has nothing but hatred for you"

Simon Jesukumar, an ageing widower, aspires to do something worthwhile with what remains of his circumscribed, frustratingly blameless, cocooned middleclass life.
His aspirations are stirred by his nagging guilt about the slum next doorincongruously and deludedly named Sitara, The welloff residents of his colony use the inhabitants of Sitara for menial jobs but ignore their real needs,

Simons friendship with his errand boy Velu, and the strangely gifted Thatkan, propels him towards others from the slumSwamy, the schoolteacher who is also the butcher Doctor Prince who has no medical degree the beltbuckle factory owner who employs children to melt brass

for buckles Tailorboy, who has thirteen fingertips to please women the bizarre and inscrutable Baqua and Nayagan the Leader, optimistically called Merciful Diamond, whose party bosses consider Sitara to be nothing more than a captive vote bank.


As the story plunges into the heart of the slumbringing the most unlikely individuals to the brink of collisionSimon 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.


Simons dilemma is ours: how can, and how should, the rich and the notsorich help the poor To Read more : sitelink blogspot. com/

The Story That Must Not Be Told, the title itself urges one to grab the book, i did grab it because of that and once i started i culdn't put it down, The reason was simple a very real story, one can relate to it, characters well defined and flow is smooth,

It is a story of a slum in Mumbai adjacent to a rich locality, The story revolves around lives of characters and how the two totally different worlds are codependent and influence the lives of each other, The pleasantness gets disrupted as always but some who being too rich want the slum removed, It shows a blend of human categories as there are people who support the existence of the same , realizing how their lives were interdependent and thus the conflict drives the story on.


On the other side the life of people in slum with its own characteristics is portrayed, Read it to get a feel of India that lives in slums, The end is portrayed beautifully with a little flavour of disappointment but at the same time emphasizing a spirit "No matter what life goes on, " Kavery Nambisan is a novelist from India, She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India, Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction, She spent her early years in Madikeri, She studied medicine in St, Johns Medical College, Bangalore fromand then studied surgery at the University of Liverpool, England, where she obtained the FRCS qualification, She worked as a surgeon in various parts of rural India before moving to Lonavala to start a free medical centre for migrant labourers, Nambisan works as surgeon and medical advisor at the Tata Coffee Hospital in Kodagu, Karnataka, and is the Chief Medical Officer for Tata Coffee, Kavery Nambisan began by writing under her first married name Kavery Bhatt for childrens Kavery Nambisan is a novelist from India, She is also a surgeon who practices in rural India, Her career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction, She spent her early years in Madikeri, She studied medicine in St, John's Medical College, Bangalore fromand then studied surgery at the University of Liverpool, England, where she obtained the FRCS qualification, She worked as a surgeon in various parts of rural India before moving to Lonavala to start a free medical centre for migrant labourers, Nambisan works as surgeon and medical advisor at the Tata Coffee Hospital in Kodagu, Karnataka, and is the Chief Medical Officer for Tata Coffee, Kavery Nambisan began by writing under her first married name Kavery Bhatt for children's magazines, She wrote stories for the now defunct children's magazine Target, She also contributed to Femina and Eve's Weekly, sitelink.