Changing your stars begins with a single act of defiance.Arjun is a low caste cobbler, determined to put aside tools for leather and create the beautiful clay pottery that inspires him
He is determined to become greater against the crushing cultural forces that conspire to hold him back. Through Arjun’s struggle, Anita Agnihotri explores caste and class discrimination that continues to plague society in contemporary India.Arjun’s story unfolds against the backdrop of the Naxal movement of the 1960s and ’70s that wiped out an entire generation of Bengal’s youth. Agnihotri sensitively interweaves the struggles: of a society yearning to change by any means, of the young Naxalite revolutionaries whom the state tries to destroy, and the one idol maker who seeks to rise from its ashes a new man.
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