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khan azam was a snob prove his snobbery with reference to the story a pair of mustachios​

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After the end of an unusually challenging academic year, when I could finally read for leisure once more, I found I had two conflicting impulses. As the horrific second wave of the pandemic took off in India, I wanted to be attuned to the sufferings there and also to find some escape from it. One book that’s allowed me to do both is Mulk Raj Anand’s Greatest Short Stories, an edited selection of some of his best stories, originally published in various collections between 1934 and 1973.

In 2020, after the national lockdown was hastily implemented in India, we heard the heartbreaking stories of migrant workers attempting to walk hundreds of kilometers to try and get home to their villages. Anand’s stories from decades ago present to us men and women forced to walk great distances in blistering heat, whether to find work or to escape violence. Here is a description of a frail ageing man’s journey from the story “Old Bapu”: “The city was still a mile away, and the flesh of his feet burnt where it touched the new hot metalled road through the holes in the shoes. And the sweat poured down across the furrows on his face…”