6/8/2023 0 Comments Narcopolis book summary![]() ![]() There are many more such characters figuring in the book and all of them share a common premise – they are addicted to opium. Lee, the Chinaman, his childhood in China, his perils during the war, his journey to India and his addiction to opium about Rashid, the owner of the chandukhana, his journey from being a small-time peddler to becoming an entrepreneur, his addiction to opium and then to heroin about Rumi, a regular at Rashid’s and his tryst with rehab. It begins with Dimple, a hijra pipeman at Rashid’s, who is prettier than most women about how she was castrated before the age of 10 and compelled to become a eunuch how she was forced to sell her body in order to live how she was drawn towards opium and the solace it gave her and how she came to become a pipeman at Rashid’s. ![]() Narcopolis is a maze of human temperaments, which if grasped, will surely move your heart. The story is both simple and complex at the same time simple because of its unfussy structure and complicated because of its knotty characters – the lives they lead, the dilemmas they face and the contexts that led them into being what they are now – opium addicts. The narrator of this story is an opium pipe – a pipe older than life itself. ![]() “I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay.” ![]()
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