Recently, I happened to have this strange habit of picking up those hi-funda, hyped books in recent times thinking about whether, it really has that power of being so famous. Sadly that disappointed me which was way below expectations. The book I was referring to was the one which recently won The Man Booker Prize, "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga.
This book describes about a village chap, Munna who comes to city hoping of some greener pastures and ends up killing his own master ! In order to describe the line just said, the author took 320 pages ( roughly) including humiliating in the very own country that he lives in. An eye opener, only for those who can take it in the right sense, but what about the average reader ? He will think that here is a man who is getting awarded by demoralizing the country and its fellowmen ! Strange panel, but the point here is that this book makes our country stand naked in front of the whole world about the bad things that go about inside. Of course, the situation will improve, but this doesnt mean that you start glamorizing it to the mankind ! No country is perfect, but others are always looking at what the other is doing or is flawed about and lowers the image.
Overall, it explains the real happenings of a person, which gets generalized in the end, making you think that, is this our India ?
1 comment:
That is the magic of a novel....wht is actually a one liner is described in tons of pages.. :-P
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