INCREDIBLY MOVING AND HAUNTINGLY HONEST, WATER IN A BROKEN POT IS THE MEMOIR OF YOGESH MAITREYA, A LEADING INDEPENDENT INDIAN DALIT PUBLISHER, WRITER, AND POET. ENCOMPASSING EXPERIENCES OF PAIN, LONELINESS, DEPRAVATION, ALIENATION, AND THE POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HIS CASTE IDENTITY, THIS INTIMATELY MOVING MEMOIR IS A STORY OF RESILIENCE AND RAW BRUTALITY. GROWING UP IN A WORKING-CLASS FAMILY WITH MEAGRE WAGES TO GET BY IN LIFE, YOGESH WRITES OF HIS FATHER`S STRUGGLE AGAINST ALCOHOL AND PASSION FOR CINEMA; OF INTERGENERATIONAL DREAMS SHATTERED; WORKING DAY AND NIGHT SHIFTS IN FACTORIES; THE STRUGGLE OF BEING LOST, OVERLOOKED AND UNMENTORED IN INDIA`S SCHOOLING, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS WHICH CONTINUE TO BE CASTEIST, EXCLUSIONARY AND HOSTILE; AND FEELINGS OF LOVELESSNESS, LOSS AND HEARTACHES.