Sofa wrote what he believed in. He disliked pretension, and his writing was devoid of exaggeration. His writings strongly voice the concerns of underprivileged people in our country. The writing was his passion. He led a very simple and ordinary life with little place for comfort and luxury.
He was among the first people outside the state to visit and see the gravity of the situation and how the ethnic cleansing was carried out. He frequently visited Ahmadabad in March in connection with his assignment with ActionAid India, an NGO.
Bhanu is a mentally challenged boy. He gives company to a boy of a working mother. She is planning to take the boy to a Rehabilitation centre. But, Bhanu suddenly leaves his job at his father's order causing much pain to the family.
Bhagwan Das wrote this article in 2001, he had identified the shortcomings and weaknesses of Dalits and predicted a bleak future for Dalits, but it is proving to be utterly correct today.
he story is based on the struggle of indigenous people for their rights to jal jameen and jangal, led by Rudrani Devi and later by a young couple, Timir and Shampa.
Ramdeen spent several months at the garage learning the ins and outs of a motor mechanic. He quickly acquired the basics of repairing a car, but no money ever came. As the days passed, he was forced to collect discarded beer bottles from the drains. He sold these to the wholesaler, giving him a little money. He did not leave his job but hoped one day, one Friday, the owner would hand him a brown envelope with a few dollars.
Set in an unnamed southern town amid lush plantations of pepper, bananas, coffee, rice, and narrated in soliloquy Annie Zaidi’s 184- page novel, Prelude to a Riot is a brilliant, bold, honest, critical commentary on contemporary India.
