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Ravan and Eddie is a story of survival. A story of two young boys escaping from extreme poverty, from reality. It is a world where reality and fantasy co-exist and seem to be interchangeable. Nagarkar writes always about people. Ideas, morals, ideologies and political agendas lurk in the wings ready to dart out and speak their piece when required. It is a searing tale told with wit, pace and black humor. This is based against the backdrop of Bombay, in the chawls. Nagarkar manages to bring out the dreary lives of those people who live there and how every day is to them a new fight for survival. The fact that he uses 2 religions as the plot of his book is interesting- telling us that it is not only one kind of people who suffer in these conditions. His writing is easy, and unlike several of the women. The style is distinctly original, and most of all, it has a great sense of humour. (I feel like many of the women authors work too hard to make a social point