Apr 06, 2017 04:33 PM
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Mulk Raj Anand, one of the finest writers of India. His book "Coolie" is a seminal book in Indian literature. Coolie depicts the life of an young boy who dreams of a life in the hills, but is forced to travel out of his village to earn a living as a domestic help, porter, factory worker and rickshaw driver which is basically foot rickshaw . There are pages filled with poverty, filth, loss of dignity, abuse by employers, calling of names in the sense that the early pages of the book is one unending story of depression following deprivation . But slowly the beauty of Mulk Raj Anand emerges in the way he surreptitiously heaps scorn on the ruling political class of that time - the Britishers and their cahoots in pre -independence India. it is an absolutely savage book .
