When the whole world is vocal against the inequalities of rights and responsibilities between BLACK and WHITE, let us consider other boundaries- between the rich and the poor, the men and the women, the married and the unmarried, the locals and the foreigners, the educated and the illiterate, upper and lower castes, the young and the old. People on either side of these boundaries need appropriate rights and responsibilities to earn their living, and enjoy lives. Not only Black Lives Matter but Every Life Matters.
The novel starts with a stealthy escape of Kireeti, a tired soldier of life, from his residence. Only after a few days, wife Droupadi will celebrate their Fiftieth Anniversary, when Kireeti will be forced to mimic love.
Kireeti has realised that, if he continues to live with Droupadi; he would never be allowed to share his sorrows with her and eventually he would have to look for a way to end his life.
After Kireeti’s escape, we would look back on various dates of his life, what happened and how the course of his life changed. We will review his fight against boundaries– against the borders between countries, boundaries between married families, the married and the unmarried.
Kireeti dreams, each person has rights to live in any country and earn the living there, “where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls”.