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Echoes of Gasping Souls
Paperback
ISBN13: 9788194804352
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 9 2021
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Four strangers are stuck in a hotel in Mumbai.
Sitam, a Nepali speaking man from Sikkim, works in the dusty offices of Indian bureaucracy. He has seenracism at its worst during his University days. He is a frustrated Indian bureaucrat.
Kulawant Kaur from Amritsar is on her first solo trip at the age of 62, under the pretence of apilgrimage. This trip is her revolt against the inescapable North-Indian patriarchy.
Manoj is a typical Engineer-MBA, highly driven, ambitious and suave. His superiority complex isnauseating.
Sunil Paswan, a Dalit from Bihar is the hotel manager. He survived caste riots in his native village 30years ago, after which he moved to Mumbai and has never gone back home.
They hate each other, hate being forced to live together and hate that the torment will last almost amonth. How do things play out and what happens at the end? The story changes whenhearts and minds slowly begin to open up...
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