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Guilty of the crime of sleeping on the job, the lowly yaksha Prem Chandra Guha,
is banished to India on a punishment posting. During his stay here, he must write
a sufficiently riveting history of the land of his exile. Prem Chandra arrives in
India on the first dawn of her independence and fate brings him to Netarhat,
an obscure town near the forests of Chhota Nagpur. It is here that he meets
Manhoos, an orphaned urchin who repairs motor vehicles for a living, and his
friend Mary, a feisty tribal girl from the nearby Santhal village.
Assuming the shape of a common sparrow, Prem Chandra turns into an
unobtrusive observer and follows the fortunes of Manhoos and Mary as they
travel to Calcutta, and then to Rishikesh, Bangalore, Ahmedabad... As they
plunge from one adventure to another, a series of figures play key roles in their
lives: the Naxal leader Charu Majumdar; Satyajit Ray, in his crisp dhoti and
clipped accent; the ever-giggling Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; the powerful business
magnate, Ameer Premji; and even a mysterious man with a 56-inch chest.
On the broader canvas of India, other events are playing out. Indira Gandhi
declares an Emergency; a new party, the Jana Sangh is formed; Siddhartha
Shankar Ray cleanses West Bengal of Naxalism and Jyoti Basu brings in thirty
years of Communism; somewhere, a dam is built, and hundreds of tribals are
rendered homeless, elsewhere, a masjid falls, a deadly virus rises and the ground
of India shakes beneath her feet...
Song of the Golden Sparrow is the story of Manhoos and Mary, and mirrored in their
tumultuous lives, is the history of free India from 1947 to 2022.
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