Few stories definitely leave a mark in our hearts.
One such book is Broken Anvils by Rohith Agarwal. So well written.
Here the author's intention is to letting them into the mind and workings of a scrap yard employee and hoping to offer knowledge and awareness along the journey.
He introduces us to a young lad named Jeevan. He belongs to Bengal from where he travels hundreds of miles to Gujrat to work in the Ship Building Industry.
This book is like a non-fiction that provides us a glimpse of the lifestyle of workers in this industry but takes us there through a story format.
Jeevah lands up in a world where his hopes start to shrink up. It is heart wrebching to see how economy uses these people as labour to harbour as much fron them in the name of man power while exploiting them in the most painful ways possible.
Jeevah speaks for a lot of people who are working in such a world.
Dangerous workplace condition with unjustified low wages, reduced life quality alongside psychological stress makes his day and night unbearable.
Hunger of the stomach was one thing but how will he satice his hunder of the heart with this language barrier as well ?
But surprisingly life has its own ways to send you its rays when your heart looses all its hope in the darkness.
What kind of life Jeevah will live? What path will it follow?
Where will his fate take him in the end? Reading this book can orive to be an experience in itself.
Lucid writing but a caltivating one. Definitely lets you think in what deplorable conditions few have to wirk fir their lives and how unbearable it can be for them but still if they can go on, why cannot we?
Such stories bring in inspiration and motivation!
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