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Walk to Freedom: A Historic Journey

Javed Mohammed
Rumi Bookstore (2007)
ISBN 9780970126122
Reviewed by Audrey Larson for Rebeccas Reads (3/08)

The book’s character, Omar Ghazi, is a grandfather living in California.  He was born in India in the late 1920s.  It was a time of strife, struggle and conflict, as India eventually gained independence from Britain in 1947, and the partition of Pakistan and India into Hindu and Muslin enclaves.  Ten million people made a mass exodus, and over a million people lost their lives.

Omar Ghazi wants his grandchildren to know family history, and he tells them the story of his journey across three continents.  Since they have a good life in California, they have many questions about his early life, travels, getting to England under difficult circumstances, and then back to his homeland.

We Americans do not really know much about life in his homeland, really, except there still seems to be so much violence, struggle and strife over there.  Perhaps there always will be.  But this story is really a personal fictional narrative of one man’s life, family and journey, as he wishes his grandchildren to learn, remember it and pass it along.

Omar learned much living and working in England.  It broadened his horizons, and he shared what he learned with his people when he returned home.  “Walk to Freedom” has 112 pages, and someone with an interest in that part of the world and time period, may wish to read this book.

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