I heard somany times about this book, but i am unable to read it, how can i get on line please advise. Very nice comments. VSN Rao garu. Today I am looking back! I found what I lost by not looking back is a lot. He writes any thing with several layers. We normally do not have the tools to remove all th layers. Because he is good enough to call me to IISc i take it her said it in appreciation. Today Nenu chaala vinamramu gaa thala vanchi ayananu choodatamu naa adrustamu naa duduku thanaanni aayana choosi yemi anakapovatam ayana goppathanam.
I may not agree in parts. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to content. Search for:. You Might Also Like. Thirupathi Reddy June 28, at pm Reply. Vullaganti subba rao August 18, at pm Reply. However, the narration and the ending are absolutely awesome. One of the best books I ever read. Oct 30, Boni Aditya rated it it was ok Shelves: telugu-recommendations. The author is a very good writer, his command over Telugu language is impeccable.
He can, at will draw parallels between two random ideas with his metaphors and similes. Apart from that there is no real plot, there is not real meaning. There is a constant superstition running throughout the book, in the background, the omens the signs, the astrology, the palmistry and many other superstition run rampant. The lack of understanding of how diseases are caused or spread, causes a constant strife of The author is a very good writer, his command over Telugu language is impeccable.
The lack of understanding of how diseases are caused or spread, causes a constant strife of birth and death. The author and his family are subjected to extreme poverty and suffering caused by their lack of understanding of basic Finance or Economics.
The Xenophobia is so rampant that the French women and the English women are depicted as sluts with loose character. The entire Family of the Protagonist seems to be given some holy attributes. The hero's father marries four women, each of them have kids and all of their lives are utterly disgusting! The protagonists father, tries to sneak off his fickly polytheism and tries to earn the respect of the society by throwing away money as alms and earning the holy figure status.
The author justifies every one of the four marriages, as the protagonists father had to marry all of them, one after the other out of compulsion and due to circumstances. That was the absurdest thing ever! Not once or twice but four times. The father also has a live in relationship with the village whore and has kids with her! But the author justifies this system and feels bad about this woman being the last woman in the Devadasi system.
The Author is extremely nostalgic about the past, he hates the fact that all the systems that he was so used to, though they were useless, are just merely superstitious systems. The Brahmins reciting hyms has never accomplished anything ever for thousands of years and when the educated person who takes over the reins of the estate from his father and dismantles all the old Zamindai systems and stops paying for superstitious Brahmins or for the rites and rituals which served no real purposes.
The author is deeply hurt, because he firmly believes that all the downfall of the estate has begun after they stop the patronage. He could not digest the fact that people have started becoming rational. The author also loved the Zamindari system and the fact that Brahmins can occupy important roles in this hierarchy as Diwans - Any new change is met with disgust, and the electrification or laying telephone poles is also considered as destroying the Indian Culture, the Village Environment itself.
One of the sons of the four wives turns out to be an ill-developed deformed mutant mistaken by the village for a snake!
This is what would happen when people are born mal-nutritioned. A britisher tries to capture him and put him in a zoo in England and make money - a typical capitalist mentality and the author is against it - The biggest temple in that area had to be maintained, for centuries usually by the Zamindar by paying for the temple's priest and for the Celebrations - But, the new Zamindar orders this to be stopped!
The author could not tolerate this. Anybody who tries to generate profit in the book is marked as a villain right away, without any concern for the necessity of adding value. When a guy builds a cinema hall in the village, the author treats it as a great sin. The Indian society has also started working towards establishing systems, like the Judiciary, the Police, the Municipal System and self-rule all of which started replacing the age old Zamindari Systems who became the Judge, Jury and the Executioner under the able guidance of the Diwan and other learned Brahmins, all of these systems are now being uprooted and this book is the authors lament against this process.
He could not tolerate this, the political system around the village, the education system, the revenue system all of which is slowly crumbling before the eyes of the author who is definitely impacted by all of these. The author enjoyed a great status in the previous system and in the new system the author and others like him have lost prominence and the author threw a light into these, a very dark one indeed. The segment about his encounter with a thief, which is used to show the corruption levels of the society.
This is a constant theme running through out the book. The author starts off the book with a dream about a snake protecting the village with hoods, carefully, the author then starts the critical parts of the book again i.
This is how the book begins, and what follows is the decay of the systems and degeneration of the way of life due to impact.
The author laments about the loss of rains, since the trees were cut to lay electric lines. He talks about the loss of flora and fauna, the author writes thousands of reasons, each of them used to show how the changes are BAD, that is constant theme. The hero faces so many difficulties, the hero could not afford to get educated unless he begs for the patronage of the Zamindar, Zamindari system is also banned in Independent India.
I found this book very degenerate, the author justifies his characters as pious ones and has to perform actions for the greater good, while the other characters performing the same actions were treated as serial womanizers. I was shocked, this is one extremely narrow minded man - I thought. The author also supports child marriage and reverse dowry - Kanya sulkam. I am not sure how this novel has become so popular and why people are not able to see through the narrow mindedness!
The Christian missionaries and their weird attempts to destroy Indian culture and convert them, is also carefully written, this continues well to the present day.
They have managed to convert entire villages into Christianity. So China lost all of its superstitions in one generation. And created a fresh start! For India, it was lost slowly due to the British influence, who removed every single one of the Indian Superstitious systems, all the while looting them.
Every single village has its own evil superstitions, and the british rule was so prevalent into the grass roots level that they washed the entire fabric of Indian Culture. India did not get rid of its superstitions, they are prevalent everywhere, and India has not banned many such superstitions. They have not banned temples, or other mystics! Thus India remain backward to this day.
I love the work of art, it is a great historic novel, depicting the social life of Ancient India, and its transformation. But, I hate the narrow minded author, who could not realize how it was actually helping India on a Macro level or the world is sad and I can't give more than two starts for the lack of proper thought. But he is a very good writer, with respect to his writing skills and command over the language Apr 09, Satish Dosapati rated it really liked it.
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