UNTOUCHABLE ‘ NIRBHAYAS’ OF INDIA AND ONE BILLION RISING By Dr Sam Pasumarthi, Partridge, 350, pp. 244 `

Dr Durga Prasad packs his bags and his family and moves from Vizag to the village of Yellamanchili in Andhra Pradesh, to escape Japanese bombings during World War II, in 1942. His son, Shiva, bonds with an ‘ untouchable’ servant’s son and their friendship grows, with the story following the complexities of the caste system in India.