The City of Parks: Memories of an Outsider

The City of Parks (Memories of an Outsider) is a story of a man who left his village in Northern India, when his primary school teacher canned him for not paying five rupees for transferring from nursery to grade one. He went to town with his relative to study. While waiting for admission, he started to practice English alphabets and was keen to show his work. The relative slapped planting his fingers on the youngsters cheek for behaving like a child at the age of nine. In 1965, he came to ...