About the Book: Allah Miyans Workshop
In a small village in Awadh, fourteen-year-old Gibrans unlettered father wants
him to get employed in a mosque. The boy attends the madrasa, memorizes his
lessons, helps his Amma at home ... and yet, on freezing Friday mornings, when
he must bathe before offering prayers, he wonders why there must be Fridays in
winter!
Gibrans is an innocent world: he loves flying kites, flies even dragonflies by
tying strings to their tails, skips the madrasa to watch the Nats tamasha, gets
caned for stealing a quarter-rupee coin and, when a cat grabs their hen, he asks
why He who made the cat