Out of the Third World - Sharma, Ashok
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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…mehr

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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. This was in spite of Powell being a right-wing politician belonging to the opposition conservative Tory party, whose chief, Edward Heath had fired him as the shadow defense minister, calling his speech "racialist in tone and likely to exacerbate racial tensions." At the Woolwich College, the impressionable Ashok inadvertently befriend Norbert Eliumelu, a sly, smooth-talking, immaculately dressed Nigerian in his thirties, who is also studying for his prerequisites for medical school admission. Norbert, a social-butterfly with tremendous communication skills, has already enamored himself to the students and the staff at the college. Ashok starts to feel confident and supported by his burgeoning friendship with Norbert and feels some of his stardust sprinkling on him. The bonhomie takes an ominous turn when Norbert suddenly disappears from the college at the end of the first year. He reappears at the end of the second and final college year at Ashok's rented place to cajole, threaten and bribe him into a carefully crafted highly nefarious, illegal, unethical and risky quid pro quo plan that would guarantee both of them placements at medical schools--a very onerous task for a foreign student in Great Britain 50 years ago. Out of the Third World is a chronicle of the travails, tenacity and grit against overwhelming odds and adversity faced by Ashok to succeed. If you think you have heard and read everything, then you may not have, until you have read this book! Virtually every page is guaranteed to entertain you.
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[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Out of The Third World" by Ashok Sharma.] ________________________________________ 4 out of 4 stars ________________________________________ Share This Review ________________________________________ Out of The Third World, by Ashok Sharma, tells about the author's experiences, as an immigrant student in the United Kingdom. Sharma is an Indian born in Tanzania. In the late 1960s, he arrived at the Gatwick Airport in England with the ambition to become a medical doctor. He registered for A levels in a British college, and afterwards, he was faced with the challenges involved in getting admitted into a medical school. This book is chiefly about Sharma's survival in England, unveiling how he eventually succeeded in receiving "the certificate of full registration as a medical practitioner from the General Medical Council of Great Britain."Out The book is coherent and easy to read. It has two sections, namely book one and book two. The first section is about how Sharma studied and passed his A-level exams, and section two shows his experiences in medical school. I appreciate the author's ability to describe events, places, and people vividly. What I like most is that the book feels like a novel. Sharma put his experiences together in a fictional form; there are narrative and intriguing dialogues. He provides a true story with a solid plot and interesting twists. Though the beginning is somewhat flat, it becomes suspenseful from the middle. Being entertaining, the book provides a lot of information about the specialties of medicine, including the handling of some serious health problems. Hence, it'll be useful for those aspiring to be medical doctors, but if you're fainthearted, I advise you to skip it because it tells about the dissecting of human organs and the internal organs of surgery patients. Furthermore, Out of The Third World features political and Third World immigration issues in the UK in the late sixties, such as "Enoch Powell's apocalyptic-sounding anti-immigration campaign." The book is engaging and full of valuable lessons. From one of the author's experiences, he learned a bitter lifelong lesson not to commit a crime at the demand of a friend because such a friend is worse than an enemy. I concur with that. Included in the story, in the second section, are Sharma's sex adventures, but there are no explicit sex scenes. In conclusion, I rate the book 4 out of 4 stars. It doesn't deser