![]() ![]() When his visa expires, he moves into the slums and runs a medical clinic for the slum residents. He receives a commission on both ends of the deal. ![]() Lindsay must survive and he does so by arranging for foreigners to obtain drugs. ![]() One of his first encounters is with a woman named Karla, and it is love at first sight for him. Lindsay, an escaped Australian convict, arrives in Bombay, and the adventure begins. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life" (Chapter 1, pg. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. I realised, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It begins: "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. The opening of the book lets the reader know that he/she will be thinking about many philosophical issues during the book. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is a lengthly book, but very interesting reading. ![]()
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