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A bend in the ganges

Malgonkar manohar

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Completed on 28 December 2023
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This story revolves around three male protagonists: Gian Talwar- who is very much influenced by the Gandhian ideology of non-violence; Debi Dayal and Shafi Usman are other two who often uses "Jai-Ram: Jai Rahim" slogan to equate their feeling toward secularism. The fundamental difference between Talwar and Debi-Shafi duo lies in their ideology. As Talwar picks 'Gandhian nonviolence' as his way to fight against the British atrocities, Debi-Shafi finds violence as the only option left. Freedom fighters also establish 'The Hanuman Club', an institution for their physical and spiritual upliftment in a country which is immensely divided due to its variations in political ideology and religious fragility. 

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Chapter 1-

19 December 2023
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A CEREMONY OF PURIFICATION THEY were burning British garments. The fire that raged in the market square was just one of hundreds of thousands of similar fires all over the country. On one side was th

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Chapter 2-

19 December 2023
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THE HOMECOMING THE train wound through the familiar hills, chuffing asthmati- cally over the climb, clanking and jolting at the turns. The rhythm of the engine changed. Now there would be the whistle

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Chapter 3-

19 December 2023
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FIGURES IN A SUNLIT FIELD BUT in India, land disputes are seldom resolved by decisions of the courts. When, on Monday they went to take possession of the field, they discovered that a large tree had

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Chapter 4-

20 December 2023
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BULLOCKS AND BANGLES THE day of Vishnu-dutt's acquittal was a black day for the Little House. It even made a crack in Aji's equanimity. For the first time, the eternal lamp in Shiva's room remained u

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Chapter 5-

20 December 2023
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THE STRANDS OF THE NET SUPERINTENDENT Bristow of the C.I.D. walked into the map room for what he referred to as his Friday morning prayer meeting, a lean greyhound of a man in khaki gabardine jacket

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Chapter 6-

20 December 2023
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ONLY IN PEARLS STANDING at the window of their bedroom, Dewan-bahadur Tekchand looked nervously at his watch, and then down at the waiting car where the chauffeur, tall and bearded and dressed in a f

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Chapter 7-

21 December 2023
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BEYOND THE BLACK WATER' It was shocking to see him thus, thought Gian, the boy he had envied at college, now wearing a large red 'D' on his vest-a 'D-ticket convict as they called them. He had been b

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Chapter 8-

21 December 2023
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A VIEW OF THE BEACH THE date had been fixed earlier, in consultation with the family astrologers, an auspicious date that could not be changed. And yet perhaps it was an almost inescapable coincidenc

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Chapter 9-

21 December 2023
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THE VIEW FROM DEBI'S CELL THE chink in the mortar between the two layers of brick must have been made by an earlier inmate of cell number twenty-three, barrack seven. By propping one end of the sleep

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Chapter 10-

21 December 2023
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THE TAIL OF THE SERPENT In the beginning, the war meant nothing to the convicts; it obtruded on their lives only in odd little ways: their lighting-up time was curtailed, their ration of molasses was

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Chapter 11-

22 December 2023
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HAVING BEEN FOUND GUILTY THE evening sun flooded the corridor of barrack seven, making a pattern of bars on the cobbled floor. Debi-dayal marched ahead of the Gurkha sentry who carried his studded la

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Chapter 12

22 December 2023
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LED BY THE PIPERS THE shame was harder to bear than the ostracism; it was like an ulcer, permanently tender, seated deep within his body, causing him to whimper with pain, making sleep a time of recu

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Chapter 13-

22 December 2023
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ACT OF LIBERATION SUMMER came, a hot wind from the west, a season of iridescent dragon-flies and of flowers bursting through the green of the forest like spilled neon signs. The site for the new camp

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Chapter 14-

23 December 2023
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A VIEW FROM THE FOREST OF PALMS GIAN lay in the forest of palms, scanning the sea below him. As it grew dark, his eyes began to play tricks. Hazy shapes loomed on the surface of the water, shapes tha

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Chapter 15-

23 December 2023
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THE GRACE OF SHIVA ONCE again, the train chuffed through the familiar hills. Gian sat smoking, his thoughts straying over the happenings of the past few weeks. He was dressed in a pair of khaki slac

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Chapter 16-

23 December 2023
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SOME THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MONEY DEEP down was a tiny ember of guilt, perversely alive, which made him hesitate before the gate. A hardened criminal had no business harbouring a conscience,

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Chapter 17-

25 December 2023
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IDENTITY CARD THE job was specially created for him; he was appointed Shipments Supervisor for the Kerwad Construction Company in Bombay, with responsibility for speeding up the unloading and onward

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Chapter 18-

25 December 2023
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THE DOCKS HAVE GONE!' SUNDARI was bending over the table, cutting out a choli according to the paper pattern, when she heard the explosion. The walls of the house shivered as though a giant had shake

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Chapter 19-

25 December 2023
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THE PROCESS OF QUITTING No one was supposed to know anything about the Bombay explosion. The newspapers were forbidden to publish reports or pictures; even the casualty figures were a secret. In the

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Chapter 20-

26 December 2023
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TO FOLD A LEAF SHAFI USMAN lay stretched on a charpoy put out in the courtyard of a house in the second lane in Anarkali. He was wearing knitted cotton underpants and nothing else. Mumtaz, one of the

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Chapter 21-

26 December 2023
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THE COILS OF SANSAR THEY left Lahore by the first bus next morning. In the afternoon, they were in Kernal. The first night they spent in a hotel in the city. Basu spent the next morning looking for a

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Chapter 22-

26 December 2023
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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE BEACH At the end of the war, the regiment to which Sundari's husband, Gopal, belonged was ordered to Java, where the Dutch were trying to re-establish their rule. Evidently he had

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Chapter 23-

27 December 2023
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THE ANATOMY OF PARTITION IN the grey light of dawn, Tekchand stood at the window of his bedroom balcony, looking at the smoke of the fires in the distance, darker plumes mingling into the wispy blue

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Chapter 24-

27 December 2023
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'THE SUNRISE OF OUR FREEDOM' THE train was unlike any train they had ever been in. It was made up by coupling together whatever carriages a skeleton railway staff had been able to assemble from half

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Chapter 25-

27 December 2023
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THE LAND THEY WERE LEAVING THE morning dragged on, interminably slow. They all sat in the sitting room that had become their camping ground, looking at magazines, trying to hide their anxiety. The te

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