"Interpreter of Maladies" is a book which has nine different stories and each one has its own importance. Is a book which with its stories represents the Indian community at its best.
"A real Durwan" is a short story which talks about an old woman called Boori Ma, who is lonely, she has no family, because she has lost it years before. She is also very poor. She "works" as a doorkeeper in a building. She maintains it and she makes it look clean. All the residents of the building like her, but also sometimes she is treated very unjustly. They have trust her the bulding to be safe and good looking. Boori Ma has a big and beautiful heart and because one night she wanted to go for a walk, to be out of that bulding only one time, there the whole story has a turning point when some thieves steal a sink, which a resident has bought for the bulding and all the residents put the fault on the doorkeeper, Boori Ma. As a result of this, she is thrown out by them and the she is COMPLETELY lonely. The main theme of this story is irony, because there are things promised to mrs. Boori Ma, which although she is thrown out, they never give her those "promised things". Except the fact that she is very old and poor and at the end also thrown out, she continues to be storng, as she always used to.
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