Book Review : The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Through with the book “The great Indian Novel” by shashi tharoor. The book is a meandering river that helps one travel through entire Indian history - pre & post independence . Interesting part is none of the characters carry their real names – the author in a conjugal act – relates all characters in his story to closest replicas in Mahabharata . Gandhiji is named as Gangaji – Bhishm pitamah, Pandit Nehru becomes Dhristrashtra & Subhash Chandra Bose is Pandu and so on. Go or not Go ? Book is educational – so it tends to bore you. Only when post independence events are introduced does it becomes somewhat gripping. Must read if you want to understand events which have shaped India. Quick peek : A substantial part of story revolves around pre independence struggle, Gangaji/ Gandhiji’s heroic formation of congress & the politics within it which drove SC bose/Pandu to seek help from Japanese as he was ousted from Congress. Karna is the Muslim leader – M