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Here’s another book that I enjoyed reading: Madras on Rainy Days
Another issue brought out in this novel that was a shocker for me was homosexuality in India. Also, it was surprising to see how subservient and naïve Layla was in spite of being brought up in America. I wonder if I would think of Layla being subservient and naïve when I was 20. Probably not!
Native Son
I enjoyed reading Teacher Man: A Memoir
The most interesting perspective I got was that how he reaches his potential as a teacher when he joins a school where the principal is more interested in the progress of his students rather than disciplining and controlling kids. In such an environment, Mr. McCourt starts enjoying his job. This is reflected in students enjoying his classes. Enjoyment is infectious. If the teacher enjoys teaching, students enjoy learning and vice versa.
“Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
I have to confess that I am one of them who feel pity for homeless but haven’t done a thing for them. Ms. Debbie is an inspiration to all. I’ll never forget this story and may be one day God will show me how to help and be compassionate to strangers such us homeless. It was very interesting to read two perspective of an event – one from Ron Hall who is rich and trying to help and the other from Denver Moore who was homeless. Above all, the end of the story is happy and inspiring as Denver Moore evolves into such a successful person.
The Help
Also, it forced me to think about the maid servants in India. I suspect that the treatment of maid servants in many of the households in India is no better even though it isn’t because of the skin color but just because they are poor. It will be very interesting if an author in India can duplicate the idea of Ms. Skeeter, i.e., collection of interviews of maid servants of the upper middle class and rich of India. I will definitely read that book especially because I grew up in a household where we do have maid-servants and I will be interested to find out their perspective. I wonder how I treated them.