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"Set on the banks of India's holiest river amid the constant traffic of pilgrims, archaeologists, policemen, priests, and traders, A River Sutra weaves the richness of India into the dangerous lives of its characters." "A bureaucrat retires to the sacred river in search of tranquility only to encounter a girl fleeing her kidnappers, a naked ascetic and the child he has saved from prostitution, a teacher who confesses to murder, a millionaire monk, and a musician silenced by desire. Instead of finding serenity, the bureaucrat is forced to confront the powers of mythology, religion, music, and philosophy, and to acknowledge that the holy river has a sanctity more threatening than he can imagine." "In this exquisitely written novel, Gita Mehta uses the traditional forms of Indian story-telling to explore the savagery of human love and to illuminate the paradoxes of India."… (meer)
Book Title: The River Sutra Author: Gita Mehta Genre: Fiction/Drama
Book Title: The book title ' The River Sutra ' is very different and novel.
Book Cover: The book cover is a beautiful abstract art of a river, tribal life but nothing much can be explained about the story.
Plot: The story is about a retired civil servant, a widower and a person who battles with extreme loneliness trying to understand the purpose of life. Being childless is also one of the reason to his idea of withdrawing from life. In order to beat the suffocating loneliness he decides to divert his attention to work again. He then applies to the manager post, for the guesthouse on the bank of river Narmada.
His new life starts with a different frequency. The protagonist here meets a varied list of different characters whose weird and strange experiences with memorable backgrounds makes the encounters interesting and surprising. A girl who falls in love with the kidnapper who abducted her, a womaniser who learns a life time lesson, a rich business man's son from UK decides to wave his spiritual path, the death of an aspiring musician who is visually challenged and many such different stories.
More than a straight novel, the books is a garland of various stories that are told under same roof. Every story had a message and the protagonist has some take away from these stories. The after journey of the protagonist with all these experiences is how the book ends. The author has beautifully illustrated the characters, their behaviour and the inner struggle everyone goes through.
Narration: Gripping and very interesting style of narration can be observed. Kudos to the author.
Characters: Every character is fantastically scripted and made responsible to draw the attention of the reader. Language & Grammar: Easy language and flawless vocabulary is used. My Verdict: An excellent one time read.
Book Title: 3/5 Book Cover: 3/5 Plot: 3/5 Narration: 3/5 Characters: 3/5 Language & Grammar: 3/5
Here's what I wrote about in 2008 about this read: "Recall reading and enjoying, and that Mom-Mom found it 'strange' ;-). Worth a re-read to better appreciate the insights it provides on culturally and religiously diverse India." ( )
A Government official in India is in charge of a Government Rest House--a sort of inn. He is told stories about various individuals: a Jain monk previously from a wealthy family; a music teacher; a courtesan searching for her lost daughter; an insane playboy; a River Minstrel and an anchorite who worships Shiva. All this takes place near the river Narmada, a place of spiritual pilgrimage to Hindus. Gorgeous, lush writing that taught me something of Indian culture. ( )
An office-worker turned inn-keeper is the central character. He runs a guesthouse on the banks of the Narmada River, India's holiest river. The stories are told by his guests. Lush, beautiful writing. ( )
A series of tales set in India all centered on the Namada River. Not really short stories, but many of the chapter could stand on their own. Maybe its more like folktales? Didn't like it as much as I had hoped I would. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Listen, O brother, Man is the greatest truth. Nothing beyond.
Love Songs of Chandidas
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For Aditya
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The Government still pays my wages but I no longer think of myself as a bureaucrat.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
My father was expressing himself with such urgency I dared not interrupt him. “Do you know how that serene old monk hopes to die? Starving himself to death. He observes respect for life when all the time he is working toward the goal of denying his own life.” He stared at me, waiting for my response, but I could not speak. His anguish had melted the numbness that froze my heart. I was overcome by compassion for him, for myself, for my concerned and curious wife, for the human helplessness that linked us all. It was my first experience of ahimsa. In his attempt to frighten me, my father had made me realize that to prevent suffering a man must be capable of suffering, that a man who cannot suffer is not alive. My father could not understand why I needed to be with the monk more than ever and I could not explain, for the lesson of ahimsa must be learned by the heart, not the mind. But I knew I could never return to the anesthesia of wealth that had for so long numbed me to the suffering that could make me human.
“There was no art until Shiva danced the Creation,” he said, explaining how melody was born. “Music lay asleep inside a motionless rhythm—deep as water, black as darkness, weightless as air. Then Shiva shook his drum. Everything started to tremble with the longing to exist. The universe erupted into being as Shiva danced. The six mighty ragas, the pillars of all music, were born from the expressions on Shiva’s face, and through their vibrations the universe was brought into existence. “The melodies of these six ragas sustain the harmonies of living things. When they fuse together they become the beat of Shiva’s drum that brings the universe to destruction. But they are all male. And music can never be still, it can never be without desire. Life must create more life or become death. So each of the six ragas was given six wives, six raginis to teach them love. Their children are the putras, and in this way music lives and multiplies.”
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
At the bend of the river the clay lamps were still flickering as the current carried them to the ocean.
"Set on the banks of India's holiest river amid the constant traffic of pilgrims, archaeologists, policemen, priests, and traders, A River Sutra weaves the richness of India into the dangerous lives of its characters." "A bureaucrat retires to the sacred river in search of tranquility only to encounter a girl fleeing her kidnappers, a naked ascetic and the child he has saved from prostitution, a teacher who confesses to murder, a millionaire monk, and a musician silenced by desire. Instead of finding serenity, the bureaucrat is forced to confront the powers of mythology, religion, music, and philosophy, and to acknowledge that the holy river has a sanctity more threatening than he can imagine." "In this exquisitely written novel, Gita Mehta uses the traditional forms of Indian story-telling to explore the savagery of human love and to illuminate the paradoxes of India."
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Author: Gita Mehta
Genre: Fiction/Drama
Book Title:
The book title ' The River Sutra ' is very different and novel.
Book Cover:
The book cover is a beautiful abstract art of a river, tribal life but nothing much can be explained about the story.
Plot:
The story is about a retired civil servant, a widower and a person who battles with extreme loneliness trying to understand the purpose of life. Being childless is also one of the reason to his idea of withdrawing from life. In order to beat the suffocating loneliness he decides to divert his attention to work again. He then applies to the manager post, for the guesthouse on the bank of river Narmada.
His new life starts with a different frequency. The protagonist here meets a varied list of different characters whose weird and strange experiences with memorable backgrounds makes the encounters interesting and surprising. A girl who falls in love with the kidnapper who abducted her, a womaniser who learns a life time lesson, a rich business man's son from UK decides to wave his spiritual path, the death of an aspiring musician who is visually challenged and many such different stories.
More than a straight novel, the books is a garland of various stories that are told under same roof. Every story had a message and the protagonist has some take away from these stories. The after journey of the protagonist with all these experiences is how the book ends. The author has beautifully illustrated the characters, their behaviour and the inner struggle everyone goes through.
Narration:
Gripping and very interesting style of narration can be observed. Kudos to the author.
Characters:
Every character is fantastically scripted and made responsible to draw the attention of the reader.
Language & Grammar:
Easy language and flawless vocabulary is used.
My Verdict:
An excellent one time read.
Book Title: 3/5
Book Cover: 3/5
Plot: 3/5
Narration: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Language & Grammar: 3/5
Final Rating : 3/5
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