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(The protagonist’s) guts
and sinews are too
strong, his response to
Ambedkar’s call to
Dalits to “Educate,
Unite, Agitate” too
complete and all –
consuming to allow him
to leave in the past.
His story lives in the
present. It is about his
pride in his work, about
stretching himself to
the utmost to achieve
perfection in everything
he does, about the
despair of not finding
work, but also about his
determination to forge
for his children a
destiny that was never
“ordained”.
Shanta Gokhale in
The Hindu,
(November 2, 2003)
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