Title : Roots
The story is sewn such that reader could get something different and interesting to feed at every next step.The way facets of different lives unfold itself through the events that take place make the reader all the more hooked to the story.
Author : Rahul Bhatt
Blurb : “It is alright to cry”- says the soothing voice from the Helpline. And the choked emotions come to the fore filling the line with his sobs… eventually making him confident enough to start reading his ancestor’s memoirs. From 1857 to 1984… the story of Delhi seems interwoven with his family history. It is a city that provided him with shelter, yet never was quite the home he yearned for.
‘Roots’ is the story of Ganesh, a priest and astrologer who makes a living predicting others’ future. Unknown to him, fate has woven a strange twist into his life. Concurrently, ‘Roots’ also tells the story of his hometown doomed to lose its existence in the march towards development. Who wants this development? Do the residents have any say regarding their future? Can there be any compensation for losing one’s home and hearth?
A suicide, a dam, a reality show… all come together in this gripping tale of longing and displacement that tugs at the heart for what could have been...
My View :
The line we draw
between sanity and heart's call. Often knocks the situation, when one has to choose among heart and brain.Author in this book highlights on one such dilemma the protagonists has to go through while treading the journey called life.
The way author compiles the journey of
different lives in a single book is really a worth-appreciating task. He links
people's life in such a manner that reader could easily curl around the stories
they are being offered by the author.
Author brings so much
of excitement in the reading journey covering the complicated cum mysterious life
of people that too in parallel fashion in the absence of complexity.
The recipe of life is very artistically presented in the story.Dealing with many lives and doing justice with them simultaneously needs a whole lot of effort and author has succeeded in doing so.He captures the moment with great delight and let the moment row in the boat of words.
The recipe of life is very artistically presented in the story.Dealing with many lives and doing justice with them simultaneously needs a whole lot of effort and author has succeeded in doing so.He captures the moment with great delight and let the moment row in the boat of words.
The story is sewn such that reader could get something different and interesting to feed at every next step.The way facets of different lives unfold itself through the events that take place make the reader all the more hooked to the story.
The end
of the dossier reading should be depicted in such a way that it should state when
it is words coming from dossier or Panditji's conditions or scenarios coming
out.Although,a paragraph is enough to understand when it ends,but still if the
dossier part is somehow presented in another way,it would have been way easy for the reader to go with the flow without any stop.I think Italic style would have done the trick in this case.
It was not the journal's
story that kept me engaged,but it's the present story drawn from the hues of past took my attention.While I was in the
way to complete the journey, the only thing I wanted to see was what role does the
ancestors' journal (dossier) would play in Panditji's life.As being the main protagonist
of the story, there has to be something which drives the attention towards his
ancestors' stories.
Although
at places details go to such depth that reader may feel their presence
elongated in a way,but all those details helps to give a clear insight to the
story and helps
in creating a required ambiance.
In a few words, his articulation and the chain of chosen words would never make reader feel left alone for a moment.
Rating : 4/5
Reviewer : Shweta Kesari
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