The author graduated as a topper in liberal arts from Shanti Bhawan. As per the author, who also happens to be a student of the same institution, they were provided nutritious meals and were taken care of in terms of health and vaccination too. She lives in a village where the prevailing caste system and poverty have compelled people to switch their gods! It was long long ago and the memoir begins with Shilpa starting her education at Shanti Bhawan, an institution which provides education to any one child of poor families. It’s the ordeal of a poor girl Shilpa Anthony Raj. A similar kind of thought is conveyed by the book The Elephant Chaser’s daughter. Rich don’t value what is worshipped by the poor. The urge to learn comes from the vacuum that’s created in one’s life in absence of education. Poverty teaches thousands of lessons which elite can never learn.
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