{"product_id":"in-that-mill-i-too-was-forged-paperback","title":"In That Mill, I Too Was Forged - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNarayan Surve\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJerry Pinto\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof twelve in the chawls of Mumbai. He grew up in the streets of the big city, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etaught himself to read and write-working as doffer boy in a textile mill, a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esweeper, a peon-and became a school teacher and a celebrated revolutionary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoet. An abiding allegiance to the workers' movement was the thread that ran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough his extraordinary journey. His poetry was thus as much ammunition to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efight the good fight as it was art. It evolved a new idiom, written in the Marathi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espoken on the streets, freely borrowing words from Hindi or English, unafraid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto break literary conventions upheld by the cultured elite. As he puts it, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople were 'my holy books, my scriptures, my gurus'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurve makes no pretence to objectivity. His verse is unostentatious, unabashedly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eso. He wants to write about, and for, the masses. There's no attempt to idealize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem, however-to gloss over the ugliness of life-for he is one of them. His\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esubjects let their guard down and speak their minds. Activists crack jokes while\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eputting up posters, a sex worker hustles her client, and a butcher remembers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehow he lost his leg in a riot trying to save a woman from his co-religionists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mill worker and farmer know exactly who oppresses them; there is anger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein them. For all the misery we come across, though, these are not poems of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edespair, but, instead, of a dogged optimism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Pinto renders a broad selection of Surve's poetry into colourful yet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeffortless English verse, retaining both its raw energy and immediacy, and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eessence of its unyielding commitment to a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748628627744,"sku":"9789354476419","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5fab8aa7a7b371846c26aac5fa282687.webp?v=1779912818","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-that-mill-i-too-was-forged-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}