Chapter 5 Scavenger’s Sonis thus a searing portrayal of a scavenger’s life. It is a saga that talks about the story of three generation scavengers in the Municipal Town of Alleppey. The book throws light on the demeaning practice of untouchability that is practiced in the twentieth century Kerala. Untouchablity is a
Chapter 4 Dalit women are often the victims of double standards of the society. Being a Dalit and then a woman worsens the plight of Dalit women in the country. They are termed as “Dalits among the Dalits and the downtrodden among the downtrodden” (Sivaprakasm 131). They are exploited and discriminated both
Chapter 3 It is very difficult to fathom the disgust and fear felt by the scavenger community. Disgust and fear is aroused in their minds mainly due to the occupation that they are indulged with. No human beings will to become a scavenger; it is out of no choice or the onus
Chapter 2 Untouchability is the dehumanizing practice of ostracizing the members of the lowest stratum of the society from the mainstream. From the very word ‘untouchable’ we understand the meaning as, the one who cannot be touched. Untouchability is the practice of not touching a
Chapter 1: Introduction “That night Chudalamuttu could not sleep. He too was going to become a Scavenger” (Asher 2). The fear of becoming a scavenger is innate in the minds of every progeny of the scavenger community, and the research will be dealing on the fear and angst felt in the minds
Manual scavenging is a dehumanizing age old practice that is still continued today. The members of this particular community are deemed as ‘Untouchables’. The novel Scavenger’s Son is a saga of three generation manual scavengers who lived in the town of Alleppey in Kerala. The research paper attempts to look at the
Muddled with profound thoughts, she lay in her bed stoic and unperturbed by the heavy snores of her better half. “The sex was great”, she mused to herself. Usually, she dozes off after a great sex but tonight here she was tossing and turning without an iota of sleep. Her mind was
Dark, void and bleak; It came unannounced. Like a snake under the bush, It slithered its way into the mind. Venomous, spiteful and evil; It ruled the fickle mind. Usurping the throne, it declared war on the body and soul. It ruled and controlled like a morbid ghoul. Days were grey and
