In That Mill, I Too Was Forged - Paperbackby Narayan Surve (Author), Jerry Pinto (Translator) Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926 2010) was brought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the age of twelve in the chawls of Mumbai. He grew up in the streets of the big city, taught himself to read and write working as doffer boy in a textile mill, a sweeper, a peon and became a school teacher and a celebrated revolutionary poet. An abiding allegiance