By: Vikram Chandra
A tome of war and peace proportions... it is not a hurried read; it is very dense-- replete with philosophy and the very detailed Hindi epithets :)Sartaj singh and ganesh gaitonde pieces of the story reads like a Hindi movie -- the insets (small stories in stories - about peripheral characters) are amazing in their details -- I can justify the seven years it took to write this book.Vikram chandra , despite the cops and robbers story writes with great compassion and lack of judgment about characters ranging from black to light gray.Not for the faint of heart though -- it is long (almost 1000 pages) and sometimes hard to read, book with it many many characters and connections. It is unparalleled in its depiction of the seedy underbelly of the Filmi duniya- the ‘ religious affiliations’ of the politicians, more depth and details of a world that I have never known but now seem to understand— a very satisfying journey.
A tome of war and peace proportions... it is not a hurried read; it is very dense-- replete with philosophy and the very detailed Hindi epithets :)Sartaj singh and ganesh gaitonde pieces of the story reads like a Hindi movie -- the insets (small stories in stories - about peripheral characters) are amazing in their details -- I can justify the seven years it took to write this book.Vikram chandra , despite the cops and robbers story writes with great compassion and lack of judgment about characters ranging from black to light gray.Not for the faint of heart though -- it is long (almost 1000 pages) and sometimes hard to read, book with it many many characters and connections. It is unparalleled in its depiction of the seedy underbelly of the Filmi duniya- the ‘ religious affiliations’ of the politicians, more depth and details of a world that I have never known but now seem to understand— a very satisfying journey.
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