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Title: What is useful or required to know, Knowledge?
Review: How many Pyramids are there in Egypt? Where is Guantánamo? What is Light year?These are not the questions answered by Ram Mohammed Thomas, a slum survivor to win a billion rupees in a Quiz Show. However he asks a very poignant question, is this required knowledge and how it is different from the knowledge which he has acquired...............that his neighbor beats his wife, that the water comes only at a certain part of the day, that gay men are forced to look for comfort in dimmed lights of a movie theater.It is a well written piece of work where characters come to life and stay with you. The author has brilliantly closed out on all lines of thoughts to form full circles. As they say in India - Paisa Vasool (Money's worth)
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