Malati: Excerpted from Ghachar Ghochar (Electric Literatures Recommended Reading Book 247) by Vivek Shanbhag

Malati: Excerpted from Ghachar Ghochar (Electric Literatures Recommended Reading Book 247) Reviews

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  John Trident

  Ghachar gochar
  
  It's very rare to find such potent yet powerful books which unravels the deepest desires in our hearts, shakes us to the core & makes one question their very existence. It gives an immense form of happiness & quenches our impalpable thirst for knowledge & suspense. This fact can be understand in its true form by just reading this book.
  
  Cover is simple, designed well. Though I feel it could have been better.
  
  Title is catchy & signifies the content of the book appropriately.
  
  Theme is about love, family, bond, relationships, society, human tendency, traditional mindset, pretentious behaviours, fake, real, world & many other aspects interconnecting each other in a vivid fashion.
  Though from the first look, the book maynot seem much from the title. However, one will be mistaken to think that this is just an ordinary book. As this book has much more to offer than the ordinary ones we come across everywhere!
  
  I won't ponder much into the depth of story or discuss any details about it. As it can be totally understood by the blurb & description given about the book. What I'll mention are the crucial things which will compel the reader as to why he/she should pick up this book.
  
  The plot & story starts with an ordinary guy from bangalore as he retells his story in a poignant way to a stranger who's lost in his own worklife. The most surprising, yet strange facts that can be extrapolated from this book is the simple human tendency or the way of life. As how money, wealth, name & fake changes a simple good human into a much more perverse complicated being with a crooked mind. How one simple family leading a happy life sharing all needs, comforts, food & bits of everything changes drastically! How things are now measured in terms of money, time, materialistic needs, show-offs/status-maintain, pretentiousness, fake aspects, living in virtual world -- just to be show the world what you're capable of! How those tiny little moment of joy, warmth & human bonds are now measured in terms of 'conspicuous consumption,' where the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power—or the income l of an individual's accumulated wealth. Where everything is measured in terms comparatively in terms of 'demonstration/bandwagon/snob/veblen effect.'
  
  This book arouses the curiosity in every readers' mind, raises innumerable questions on life. It makes one question, "what has the world come to these days!"
  This very question can be answered by the sheer amount of riveting & unnervingly, & amazing language used in this book. The very existence of the beautiful narration which accompanies the satiable language is worth every bit. The poetic touch encompassed with the synchronisation & characterisation leaves the reader impressed. The reader craves for more, wondering what will happen next & what else this book has to offer. In short, overall I would like to say this is a must book to read.