Freedom Song
eBook - ePub

Freedom Song

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Freedom Song

About this book

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a 'sick' sweet factory that doesn't particularly want to be cured. Across town, Khuku's brother worries about his son's affiliations with the Communist Party, but only because they may affect his ever-so-gradually coalescing marriage prospects.

Freedom Song is a work of fiction that plays with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9780571361540
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. It was a solitary voice
  5. Afternoon saw Khuku
  6. ‘Really? Are you sure?’
  7. When afternoon came to Vidyasagar Road
  8. ‘How’s the pain?’
  9. The house, if it could be called such
  10. Khuku and Mini sat side by side
  11. In the afternoon, Bhaskar reclined on the bed
  12. Twice a week, they’d go to a nursing home
  13. Now and then, their voices could be heard
  14. Nando had spent most of his life in Calcutta
  15. Half in her sleep, Bhaskar’s mother
  16. Sometimes when Bhaskar’s mother heard them
  17. ‘Borda doesn’t live far from here
  18. Golf Green. A maze of houses
  19. When they were going back down Southern Avenue
  20. Each day the azaan rose in the morning
  21. At half-past ten, a lemon-coloured Ambassador
  22. School had begun again
  23. Often, when Mini sat late
  24. After Vidyasagar Road had curved right
  25. They woke, slept, talked
  26. Early in the afternoon on a Tuesday
  27. Much would change in the next few months
  28. Although he knew now that they wouldn’t
  29. Each time a state- or government-supported company
  30. Women’s memories of their husbands’ working life
  31. And then there were only two days left
  32. The sound of the radio came from outside
  33. Beena had gone to see the play
  34. ‘What will it be today, Didi?’
  35. When she finished the song
  36. It was not many days after the performance
  37. And Bhaskar, after a gap of five days
  38. When Bhola came back to India
  39. During the first two years of his married life
  40. And they had social obligations
  41. ‘I saw you devour those sweets,’
  42. When Mini returned home
  43. The bombs exploded in Bombay
  44. There, near Mini’s house
  45. Towards the end of March
  46. A decision just had to be made
  47. They began writing names
  48. When Mini woke up
  49. There was a by-lane off Central Avenue
  50. And now Bhaskar wore his white bridegroom’s topor
  51. They were in the large room
  52. Where should I put these?’
  53. ‘Are those your parents, ma?’
  54. She knew very little about the company
  55. They had still not been on their ‘honeymoon’
  56. CRPF soldiers; three months ago
  57. They—Bhaskar and the wife he hardly knew
  58. And Khuku lay on her bed
  59. Then she remembered her friend’s arthritis
  60. About the Author
  61. Further praise for Freedom Song
  62. By the Same Author
  63. Copyright