Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbars amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family ??based on his own??and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations.
Telinipara, a small jute mill town some 30 miles north of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex Rubiks Cube of migrant Bihari workers, Hindus and Muslims; Bengalis poor and bhadralok; and Sahibs who live in the safe, foreign world of the Victoria Jute Mill. Into this scattered inhabitation enters a child on the verge of starvation, Prayaag, who is saved and adopted by a Muslim family, converts to Islam and takes on the name of Rahmatullah.
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