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Left to fend for himself in a place where “all was unknown and everything a source of fear”, the starving Imaan, trying to pick the ropes of rag-picking, wonders whether he was better off in prison. The bitter truths and injustices that the low caste and poor seem doomed to endure are brought forth through the many characters whose “life itself was like the camel’s hump or the shell on the snail’s back, an immovable burden that had to be carried, and which offered nothing but pain”. Struggling to get even a meal, the poor puzzled chap is pushed headlong into the dark underbelly - that unsparing space, where throats are cut for a pittance and every incident and emotion is transactional, including deaths and dead bodies that are traded for a few rupees, as they fill somebody’s belly.
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With no inkling of how to deal with the ‘freedom’ and disillusioned by the people and the ways of the ‘free’ world, the young lad’s story is engrossing. His only known home till then has been the jail or juvenile centre. It is the amazing story of Imaan, an innocent boy, who, by a twist of fate, finds himself penniless, alone and confounded as he leaves the prison for the first time on turning 18 and enters the big bad world. ‘Imaan’ is the English translation of Byapari’s ‘Chhera Chhera Jibon’ by Arunava Sinha. His writings got translated into many languages, touching readers worldwide. Portraying accounts of the underprivileged living on the edges with a quirky humour - ‘Imaan’ is his 26th book - Byapari quickly cemented his spot in the Dalit literature firmament, garnering awards. He honed his natural ability to conjure up tales by following his passion for reading.Įver since Mahasweta Devi, who on a chance ride in his rickshaw, discovered the man’s potential and published his story in her journal, the ink in Byapari’s pen has not dried.
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Having never gone to school, Byapari, incredibly, picked the Bengali alphabet in jail from a fellow inmate, a twig and a sandy patch serving as pen and paper. Like the circumstances and predicaments faced by the men and women so evocatively portrayed in ‘Imaan’, the author has lived that marginal life for many years - doing odd jobs, as a rickshaw-puller, cook and domestic help and even serving time in prison.
For, Byapari - the now famous Bengali litterateur, chairperson of the state’s Dalit Sahitya Akademi and MLA from Mamata Banerjee’s party - has seen it all first hand. THERE cannot be a more credible and immersive novel on the starkly harsh conditions of the paupers, the ill-fated millions who have to struggle and work hard to eke out a living or fight every minute just to survive as well as of petty criminals frequenting prisons, than Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘Imaan’.