Babu
By Bruce Hanna
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Babu is a naked infant terror, an outrage to his hate-filled village at the furthest end of nowhere. In a world ruled by demons, spirits and greed, he finds enlightenment in a whirlwind of life and death. Babu suffers starvation and earthquakes, unaware of his true value and his enduring effect on all those he encounters in his philosophical pilgrimage and his constant quest for food and kindness.
Cursed by birth and clad in grubby loincloth and turban, Babu is a fresh breath of unwashed air among superstitious and ignorant villagers far from civilisation. They beat him and treat him like a criminal imbecile. Babu rebels against their authority and the inequality he finds in poverty around him, and all of life's bad luck. He survives by stealing food and foraging in the wilderness. Driven by hunger and festering ambition Babu longs for a better life. He sees himself as the loneliest man in the world with rats and dogs his only companions.
He has a secretive relationship with the local schoolteacher; a modern man with a pencil behind his ear. He develops an enduring friendship with the boozy priest Baba, a holy man banished in disgrace from the distant Great Monastery. Baba encourages Babu's search for wisdom in the twisted world of magic and evil.
Despite everything turning against him, and despite the disadvantages of his humblest station in life, Babu finds wisdom, he finds work, he finds love, he finds a home, he finds wealth. He rises above all adversity. He is transformed from a sneaky childhood thief born as an orphan in the wilderness, to achieve greatness as a philosopher of celebrated renown.
Bruce Hanna
“I’m no writer. I actually don’t write. The stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect clinging to the windscreen of a speeding vehicle.” – Bruce HannaAfter growing up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, Bruce Hanna became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to his refusal to collaborate in the USA-led war against Vietnam. He was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government.Hanna’s writing and cartoons appeared on fringes of the Australian press, including The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of his poetry, along with Suicide Circus, an illustrated homage to the self-devastation of the human race, along with his PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999).Hanna’s first novel Fatal Moments (published by A&R in 1987) caused Peter Bowler in Canberra Times to remark on a “delicious thread of dry humour running through the high drama” and “the sheer outrageous fecundity of Hanna’s imaginativeness.” Hanna reveals the World in spurts of liquid insight, and outrage etched into his writing by acidic humour, as reflected in Sentimental Traveller (2020) a compassion-fuelled narrative of cross-century travels. Some years ago, his e-books (Babu, Comedy of Turmoil and Scrapheap of Dreams) with Sentimental Traveller were made available free of charge, for educational purposes.
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