Unheard Voices: Stories of Forgotten Lives

By Harsh Mander

The Bhopal gas tragedy, the communal carnage of 1984 and 1989 in Delhi and Bhagalpur, the Orissa super cyclone, among others, are part of collective memory, But, often forgotten are those who actually... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014100665X
• ISBN13: 9780141006659
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: India Penguin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book, can't put it down.

This book is a collection of 20 short real-life stories that took place in India. The stories are about street children, women, tribal homeless and destitute people and those living with leprosy and HIV. These stories show the spirit of human beings to overcome insurmountable difficulties with courage, resilience, optimism, humanism, and hope. This is a great read, specially for those in "developed countries", it gives a powerful and gripping insight into the lives of unfortunate people. Read this to understand how crippling poverty, discrimination, illiteracy, etc. can be, and the human being's determination to seek a better life in the face of these enormous suffering. The previous reviewer complained about the grammar, the grammar is indeed wrong at few places, but, it's not too bad to make the reading/understanding the stories impossible.