But when Ramu, the village simpleton, marries Laxmi, the college
educated daughter of a poor farmer, their union gives birth to a
miracle that will change Nandgaon forever, and there is little
Mundkur can do about it. The unlikely catalyst for this
transformation is Manoj Mishra, a failed PhD in history, who
believes he has found the solution to rural India's poverty. And he
will let nothing and no one get in the way of his mission - not his
wife, nor the intricate mechanism of village and district
administration. Gradually, these four very different people become
embroiled in an epic confrontation in which their ideals and their
very lives are at stake. The wide cast of characters in this
unusual novel combines with playful irony and humour to lay bare an
India that struggles daily and in innumerable ways with the
overarching issue of modernization - the ethics of it, and its
impact on traditional social structures.
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