Out of the Third World

When Ashok, an impressionable 18-year old Indian student from East Africa goes to England in 1967 with the ambition to become a medical doctor, his enormous challenges of British English comprehension and difficult pre-medical school studies are compounded by the adversity he faces from a tumultuous period in British politics, triggered by an apocalyptic-sounding speech, dubbed "The River of Blood." Delivered by Enoch Powell, a prominent British politician, on April 20, 1968, harshly denoun...