You were looking for the key for years, But the door was always open
- unknown Muslim poet.(@The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga)
March 13, 2010
Key to liberation
You were looking for the key for years, But the door was always open
March 12, 2010
Life takes you Places
(4/1/2008)
The days of oblivion are long gone by, now come the days of back-breaking load of knowledge. Knowledge that nothing keeps still, even the most mundane of the in-animate objects keep changing at their own pace.
Left School, thought that i would run along the path, life has made for me; many friends were enstranged , many more i got.
The days of oblivion are long gone by, now come the days of back-breaking load of knowledge. Knowledge that nothing keeps still, even the most mundane of the in-animate objects keep changing at their own pace.
Left School, thought that i would run along the path, life has made for me; many friends were enstranged , many more i got.
March 11, 2010
The White Tiger
The book brings to fore the reality of modern jungle with all its fauna, contrasting few animals being analysed are The Stork, Buffalo, Lamb, Boar, ... and The White Tiger. Social issues of India are bared and beans are spilled as on how the Indian society is slowly going on the same ruinous route of Rome.
The book shows both the flip and the flop side of the Indian neo-Rich mentality. The flip being, Indians still show honesty even at the worst possible level of deprivation, although the authors shows this in negative light, and metaphors like "Rooster Coop". The flop, obviously being the carrying on with same thing...
The hard-hitting reality and no-nonsense attitude of the protagonist and his journey from "Darkness" to "Light" forms the spine of the story. The story begins in a typical Indian village with a large poor family of Halwai's, now forced to manual labour of pulling carts(rickshaw), how this kid named "Munna" grows from a chai-wala to a driver to murderer and finally a self proclaimed social entrepreneur.
The Indian dynamics of political system, law enforcement and judiciary are brought under scanner and open-secrets are told. The Chinese connection is intriguing, as to whether it was intentional or for pun.
All in all the book is a nice read, provided one is braced to face hard-bitter-cold-everyday reality concentrated and given in a single shot.
@Link: http://shru-perception.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
The book shows both the flip and the flop side of the Indian neo-Rich mentality. The flip being, Indians still show honesty even at the worst possible level of deprivation, although the authors shows this in negative light, and metaphors like "Rooster Coop". The flop, obviously being the carrying on with same thing...
The hard-hitting reality and no-nonsense attitude of the protagonist and his journey from "Darkness" to "Light" forms the spine of the story. The story begins in a typical Indian village with a large poor family of Halwai's, now forced to manual labour of pulling carts(rickshaw), how this kid named "Munna" grows from a chai-wala to a driver to murderer and finally a self proclaimed social entrepreneur.
The Indian dynamics of political system, law enforcement and judiciary are brought under scanner and open-secrets are told. The Chinese connection is intriguing, as to whether it was intentional or for pun.
All in all the book is a nice read, provided one is braced to face hard-bitter-cold-everyday reality concentrated and given in a single shot.
@Link: http://shru-perception.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
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