Ashok Sharma : Out Of The Third World

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ MEADOW GROVE PUBLISHING (4 April 2019)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1733691219
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1733691215
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.8 x 21.59 cm

Over a half- century ago, Ashok, a shy 18-year old Indian student from Tanzania, a third world country in East Africa, goes to England with the grand ambition to become a medical doctor. His travails are compounded by his poor command of British English and study difficulties at the Woolwich College in London, where he enrolls to study for his prerequisites for medical school admission. During his first year, his problems are compounded by the backdrop of hostility arising from a tumultuous period in the British history triggered by an apocalyptic-sounding rhetorical speech, dubbed "The Rivers of Blood," delivered on April 20, 1968, by Enoch Powell, a prominent British politician. In his speech, Powell, a powerful orator and an intellectual, demands an immediate halt to immigration into Great Britain of non-white people from the new Commonwealth countries which were Great Britain’s ex-colonies, and wants those already immigrated and settled in the country voluntarily repatriated with generous stipends. His support ratings among the native British population topped over 70 percent, including massive demonstrations in his support by dock workers; traditionally the back-bone supporters of the then ruling left-leaning labor party.