![]() ![]() ![]() He ends up being protected by the Afghan mafia and is released, but ends up in Afghanistan smuggling weapons for mujahideen freedom fighters. He is recruited to carry out illegal activities by organised crime gangs, and eventually ends up in prison again, this time Mumbai’s Arthur Road prison. There’s a love story plot when Lin falls in love with Karla, a Swiss-American woman, but Lin is pulled back into a dark underworld. After they visit his village of Sunder, Prabaker’s mother gives Lin a new Maharashtrian name: Shantaram, meaning Man Of God’s Peace.Īfter the pair are robbed, Lin is forced to live in the slums of Mumbai, and in order to connect with the community, Lin sets up a make-shift health clinic and becomes embedded in the locals’ lives and culture. While in Mumbai, he makes friend with a local man called Prabaker. In Roberts’ 933-odd page book, Lindsay (known as Lin) is a convicted Australian bank robber, who escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. ![]()
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