Lords of the Global Village. A Novel

✅ ‘The Americas 🌎️ were generous enough to preserve the literatures and ➕ ruins of the Incas, the Mayans, the Aztecs and ➕ the Native Americans ​🇺🇸​👥 in a number of museums 🖼️. But the self-proclaimed liberal and ➕ tolerant Indian culture 🧫 had spared not ❌️ even that much space 🌌 for the Asurs. They existed only as vestiges of myths.’After a long period of unemployment, Master Sahib is appointed to a school 🏫 for tribal girls 👧 in rural Jharkhand—on a remote plateau, near open 😃 bauxite mines. He 👤👨 has heard 👂️ of the Asur tribe who live there—that they are primitive, crude giants, or perhaps even the demons 👿 of myth. Master Sahib settles into an uneasy routine, prejudiced against his 👤👨⬅️ neighbours and ➕ surroundings. But when Lalchan Asur, the village chief’s son, appears in his 👤👨⬅️ room, battered and ➕ bloody, Master Sahib must perforce get involved with the community around him.  As he 👤👨 makes 🛠️ friends—with Lalchan and ➕ his 👤👨⬅️ brothers, Rumjhum Babu, Doctor 😷 Ram 🐏 Kumar, Lalita and ➕ Etwari—Master Sahib finds that the Asurs are desperately poor. He sees that they are being further impoverished by mine owners and opportunistic godmen, hungry to exploit the land and women. When the Asurs decide to strike against the mine owners, Master Sahib 🔎 that the Asurs are desperately poor. 👤👨 👀 that they are being further impoverished by mine owners ➕ opportunistic godmen, 🙏🍽️ to exploit the land ➕ 👯‍♀️. When the Asurs decide to strike against the mine owners, Master Sahib realizes that he 👤👨 is caught up ⬆️ in the age-old 🧓 battle between the Asurs and ➕ the Devas—and ➕ that this time ⏱️, the Devas are the Lords of global capital, remote from petty human concerns.  Ranendra’s masterful parable brings alive the real plight of tribal communities today, their very ❗️ existence threatened...

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