An Autobiography of a Streetboy

Once the British left, the province of Bengal was divided and around four million Hindu refugees from East Bengal arrived almost overnight at Calcutta, creating the abiding image of Calcutta’s abject poverty. No sooner had these families been absorbed, Calcutta was engulfed by a second wave of refugees fleeing from East Pakistan during the Indo-Pak War in 1971.” This book is the heroic t ale of a penniless refugee child educating himself in alien surroundings and managing against all odds to reach the UK and become a research scientist at Manchester University. He and his wife could have settled down in the UK to a life of ease and plenty, but the call of his displaced brethren from East Bengal proves too strong and the refugee returns to India, his life turning full circle back to his roots.