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Once There Was Me: The Extraordinary Life of an Unknown Indian

Caught in the web of communal violence repeatedly, Bobby Sachdeva stares at his burning house set afire by the bloodthirsty mob of the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. As a fourteen year-old, his world turns upside down, exactly at the age his father had escaped from Pakistan during the Partition of India.

Recovering from the trauma, Bobby re-builds his business and journeys across the US and China, experiencing a life unhindered by religious animosity. Having experienced both sides of religion — of immersion and detachment — he starts questioning the role of religion in our lives.

Based on his vision of an emergent India, Bobby finally submits a PIL in the Supreme Court for religious shrines to distribute their excess income for the downtrodden. What happens next as religious hardliners turn against him?

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 427
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9789389109559
  • Release date
  • 2020