No Ticket, Will Travel
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TextSeries: StORI (Stories of Rural India)Publication details: Chennai Karadi Tales 2022Description: 67ISBN: 978–81–9440–717–1Subject(s): Children's Literature | Novel for children | Contemporary Stories | Farming | Peasant Life | Migration | Rural | English Literature | Tamil Nadu | PARI seriesDDC classification: 813 Online resources: https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/no-ticket-will-travel/ Summary: I can’t buy a ticket, but I really need to get on this train…
Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classmate he’s in love with. Aruna has lost a slipper, and it was her only pair. Balu wishes he could trade his jackhammer for a poetry book. Sadia and her son are sleeping beside their handmade dolls, wondering what the future holds. Anjanamma makes up a story to soothe the relentless sting of mosquitoes. Nagaraju sightlessly navigates the chaos of a train station and puts out a plea to the universe.
Subuhi Jiwani traces six uncertain journeys from Andhra Pradesh to Kochi, of migrants in search of work, survival and belonging.
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I can’t buy a ticket, but I really need to get on this train…
Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classmate he’s in love with. Aruna has lost a slipper, and it was her only pair. Balu wishes he could trade his jackhammer for a poetry book. Sadia and her son are sleeping beside their handmade dolls, wondering what the future holds. Anjanamma makes up a story to soothe the relentless sting of mosquitoes. Nagaraju sightlessly navigates the chaos of a train station and puts out a plea to the universe.
Subuhi Jiwani traces six uncertain journeys from Andhra Pradesh to Kochi, of migrants in search of work, survival and belonging.
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