Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers Is M. J. AkbarS Amazing Story Of Three Generations Of A Muslim Family Based On His Own And How They Deal With The Fluctuating Contours Of HinduMuslim Relations. Telinipara, A Small Jute Mill Town Some 30 Miles North Of Kolkata Along The Hooghly, Is A Complex RubikS Cube Of Migrant Bihari Workers, Hindus And Muslims; Bengalis Poor And Bhadralok; And Sahibs Who Live In The Safe, Foreign World Of Victoria Jute Mill. Into This Scattered Inhabitation Enters A Child On The Verge Of Starvation, Prayaag, Who Is Saved And Adopted By A Muslim Family, Converts To Islam And Takes On The Name Of Rahmatullah. As Rahmatullah Knits Telinipara Into A Community, Friendship, Love Trust And Faith Are Continually Tested By The Cancer Of Riots. Incidents Conversion, Circumcision, The Arrival Of Plague Of Electricity And A Fascinating Array Of Characters The Ultimate Brahmin, RahmatullahS Friend Girija Maharaj, The WorkerS Leader, Bauna Sardar, The Storyteller, Talat Mian, The Poet Teacher, Syed Ashfaque, The Smiling Mendicant, Burha Deewana, The Sincere Sahib, Simon Hogg, And Then The Questioning, Demanding Third Generation Of The Author And His Friend Kamala Interlink Into A Narrative Of Social History As Well As A Powerful Memoir. Blood Brothers Is A Chronicle Of Its Age, Its Canvas As Enchanting As Its Narrative, A Personal Journey Through Change As Tensions Build, Stretching The Bonds Of A Lifetime To Breaking Point The Demanding, In The End, The Greatest Sacrifice. Its Last Chapters, Written In A BareBones, Unemotional Style, Are The Most Moving As The Author Searches For Hope Amid Raw Wounds With A SurgeonS Scalpel.