She lived with her grandparents, because her parents lived in Mumbai three hundred miles away from Bhavangar.Īt eight years Sheth, left Bhavangar, for Mumbai.
Kashmira Sheth grew up in Bhavangar, Gujarat, for eight years, when she was three she joined Montessori school. If he can make them feel more like brothers than enemies, their lives will be more bearable in the shop-and they might even find a way to escape. Then, late one night when Gopal decides to share kahanis, or stories, he realizes that storytelling might be the boys' key to holding on to their sense of self and their hope for any kind of future. In this atmosphere of distrust and isolation, locked in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again. The boys are forbidden to talk or even to call one another by their real names. There is no factory but, instead, a small, stuffy sweatshop, where he and five other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer.īut Gopal has been deceived. So they must flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future.
For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned.
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