: This novel tells the story of an Englishman who took over an island near Bombay in August 1947 #IndiaNEWS Charlie: There’s no going back; not now...after all these years... We’ve been here for

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This novel tells the story of an Englishman who took over an island near Bombay in August 1947 #IndiaNEWS
Charlie: There’s no going back; not now...after all these years... We’ve been here for almost two hundred years. We built this goddam country. I was born here, and I will die here. I am entitled...Do you understand? Dodo: There is a time to keep and a time to cast away, Charlie. Charlie: Don’t throw Christianity at me, Dodo, I am a Brahmin. They say we have lost our moral legitimacy to be here; but this is home. I was born here in Bombay, thirty-five years ago. Today, Friday, the 15th of August, 1947, I woke up to a new reality. They have divided this land into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. The Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs have begun a trail of murder. I won’t be surprised, if they begin murdering the British next. Why not? They have centuries of grievances...I see this new insolent glare of independence in their eyes, they want us all to leave, but this is my home, I have family here...somewhere out there is Maya...I lost my first daughter Doris; they took her back to England, I think...now Maya is all I have. I have a gut feeling; Maya is here, somewhere... Charlie is a six-foot-seven-inch Gulliverian entity. His...Read more

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