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Ringan
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June 22, 2024
It's hard not to compare the protagonist Devappa with Hemmingway's old fisherman Santiago in this classic Man vs Beast tale, but the similarities end there.
Devappa is an Indigenous person uprooted from his natural habitat for the 'Greater Common Good'. He journeys back to his 'submerged' home to fetch a domestic buffalo they had abandoned there for practical reasons, but whom now his mother is dying to caress it. Onward, he reminisces about his father, childhood, and lifestyle lost, which was in harmony with nature. The novel's high point is the fierce skirmish that ensues between Devappa and the herd of buffaloes gone 'wild', and in the end, nobody is a loser.
Devappa is an Indigenous person uprooted from his natural habitat for the 'Greater Common Good'. He journeys back to his 'submerged' home to fetch a domestic buffalo they had abandoned there for practical reasons, but whom now his mother is dying to caress it. Onward, he reminisces about his father, childhood, and lifestyle lost, which was in harmony with nature. The novel's high point is the fierce skirmish that ensues between Devappa and the herd of buffaloes gone 'wild', and in the end, nobody is a loser.
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