Visual C Plus Plus 6 Programing For Dummies By Michael Hyman

About the Book: Imaan

FROM A WRITER WHOS LIVED MANY LIVESTHAT OF A REFUGEE, A CLEANER, A NAXAL, A RICKSHAW-PULLER, A COOK, AND NOW AN MLA

Imaan Ali had entered Central Jail as an infant with his mother, who was charged with the murder of his father. Zahura Bibi died when he was six, and he grew up, shuttling between a juvenile remand home and the boys ward in the prison. Now, twenty years later, he has been released. With no family or home to return to, he ends up at the Jadavpur railway station, becoming a ragpicker on the advice of a former jail-mate, an expert pickpocket.

The world of the free baffles him, and although the people living in the shanties by the railsiderickshaw-pullers, scrap-dealers, tea-stall owners, and those who sell dead bodies for a little bit of moneywelcome him into their fold, life on a platform is both disillusioning and frightening at once; far more frightening than the precincts he was familiar with. This, too, is a prison, like the one he came from; that was small, and this is much larger. But no one went hungry in the ja...