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Coolie - Mulk Raj Anand

March 6, 2011 at 4:25pm

Coolie - Mulk Raj Anand

This piece Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand is a masterpiece depicting the reality of life. The title
aptly fits the story, as it is the story of a porter boy who comes from his village home to the
city and works vigorously in various places. Finally he dies of tuberculosis. The darkness of
life is competently described by the author here in this novel.

Known as Indian novelist, short-story writer, and also an art critic writing in English, Mulk Raj
Anand was among the first writers to render Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English.
Anand drew a realistic and sympathetic portrait of the poor of his country. With Raja Rao
and R. K. Narayan he has been regarded as one the `founding fathers` of the Indian
English novel. Born in Peshawar, Mulk Raj Anand was the son of Lal Chand, a coppersmith
and soldier, and Ishwar Kaur. At his early age Anand protested against his father`s servility
to the British authorities. His first texts were born as a reaction to the trauma of the suicide
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of an aunt, who had been excommunicated for dining with a Muslim woman. Some of his
poetry was inspired by an unhappy love for a Muslim girl who was married. Anand attended
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Khalsa College, Amritsar, and entered the University of Punjab in 1921. He graduated with
honors in 1924. Thereafter Anand did his additional studies at Cambridge and at London
University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1929. He studied? and later did lectureship at League of Notes by English Literature Students In Egypt
Nations School of Intellectual Cooperation in Geneva. Between 1932 and 1945 Anand also All Notes
lectured at Workers Educational Association in London.

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The `coolie` by `Mulk raj Anand` gives a chilling picture of a down stepped boy Munno who
at his early stage gets into obscurity of his own existence. He could feel the itch of an
orphan and Anand could rightly give a heart throbbing description of his mental state and
his all activities in a unique way. This book is really touchy for an emotional person. The
book holds oneself to the way the life of Munno takes on from his home in village to a role
as a servant in a house, likewise as a factory worker and eventually as a rickshaw driver.
Finally he dies by tuberculosis. There is enough of such human existence in and around the
society but under the pressure of survival of fittest these persons are ignored everyday.
This book makes the people to think for a while about their lives who just seek only a decent
living. Today, people may find Anand`s razor-sharp realism of Coolie to be brusque, but the
fact is that the novel still makes the reader twist in discomfort with its naked realism. Coolie
is a great novel of pre-independence India that has chivalrously stood the test of time. One
clearly remembers the protagonist`s agony on being denied the right to answer nature`s
call. That one scene alone makes for timeless reading.

Being published by the South Asia Books. The `Coolie` is a life story of a porter boy that
shows fingers to the reality of life.

The `Coolie` is a great book by Mulk Raj Anand. In this book he successfully portrays the
pathetic condition of a village boy `Munno`. The characters of this story are well rounded.
No one is too bad or too good. This book is a pause to the urban people`s daily running
race for survival.

This also may help you :

The Metaphors of Untouchable and Coolie pdf
http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/Archive/articles/The%20Metaphors%20of%20Untouchable%20and
%20Coolie.pdf

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Saravana Kumar, Banu Priya, Debjani Mandal Maity and 50 others like this.

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 Partha Pratim Ghosh i like it
August 13, 2012 at 4:24am
Virginia Soto Serrano the link to the metaphors is not working
November 7, 2012 at 4:36am

Debashis Mitra Its good enough to make out d sumarry of d main idea.
February 14, 2013 at 2:15am

Mapumenla Lkr such a pathetic social life depicted .

February 28, 2013 at 4:27am

Anbarasu Sampath I like it and i'm doing project on it. I'll publish it very soon!
March 3, 2013 at 9:52am

Manash Mondal This NOVEL is very pathetic in other novels

May 16, 2013 at 10:20am

Mukul Raj Shrivastva hello mukul raj

August 9, 2013 at 2:11am

Ashraf Ahmed Looks good. I am looking for more information regarding the text. Is it possible to provide
more links to resources? Wish you all the best.
August 22, 2013 at 9:02am

Rambhuvan Kushwaha i like it so much bt there is no an answer in google that how coolie as a picaresque
novel,include it please
December 21, 2013 at 6:00pm
Sitender Verma the link given is not working... do it plzzz...
October 15, 2014 at 11:04am

Sunil Kumar Very good novel ad show in india casteism and other exploation in this novel
October 16, 2014 at 11:14am 1

Guru Prasad Maity textual quotation is needed here...

November 26, 2014 at 1:49am

Sundar Msd Deva I need quiz question

December 29, 2014 at 5:01am

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