Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
He wants to change the system. He wants to rebel against the so-called tyrants. He is upset today for his love, for his paralyzed sick father, his harsh speaking loving mother and highly tolerant young widowed elder sister. Concerned for all and for himself having a wish to go to a big city to earn a better livelihood Damu the protagonist is anxious at the day break and endangers everyone's life including his own at the nightfall.
Who will survive and who not?
Written in a very lucid style the flow of events of a single day of Damu, that leads to a massacre at the end will surely touch the hearts of the readers enjoying the whole of this novel right from the start to the end all at a stretch.
Based on a true story of just one day.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination. - Alan Bennett