Chapter 7 - "The Seventh Night"

Summary of the pages 249 - 276
In the last chapter of the book, Balram Halwai talks about two different situation. First, he narrates the story itself until the very end. After that, he talks about the reason for a work break and some hours in absence.

When Balram and his nephew Dharam are on the third day on traveling, he sees his face on a police poster. Another man, recognizing his face, asks him what´s the sense of the poster because he can´t read. Balram tells him that the man on the post had killed two dangerous terrorists.
He mentions the habits of Bangalore and the people which live there. Balram tells about how he corrupts the police, gets a new job and how his company grows up.
In the end, he talks about a case, in which one driver of his company killed a man on a bicycle. Because he corrupted the police, as you already know, his driver was innocent and the inspection has been closed.
However, Balram, the head of the company, visited the family, condolatories and presented the family with 25.000 rupees. 
In the very end of the bock, he mentions one more time, that killing somebody is an occurence that is profoundly bad. But, and this is the most important, like he says, you can get this chance, even if you have to kill somebody, to leave the darkness and join the light. Anything he did, he actually misses Mr. Ashok, would never say that killing him was a mistake he did.


Personal impressions:
Well, in my opinion, I´m not capable to give any statements about what he said in the very end. Of course, there is no reason for nobody to kill anybody. But, and this is actually the reason why I don´t feel able to say anything in this case, when you were born and grown up in darkness, always fighting for water and food, you certainly would have another view about those things.
However, my finally impression about this book is, that I found it really interesting to take a dip in another world, in pain, emotions and fight you normally ain´t confroted with at all. 

The result is, that I like that book and these emotions you get while reading.