A powerful piece by Arundhati Roy I have completed just now. I am amazed how the story about culture, separation, casteism, agony, loss, corruption lust can be woven in one powerful piece. She has done it with utter amazement. Powerful phrases

•things can change in a day,
•I’ll go when the rain stops,( a metaphor with reality)
•if there is shit around, there has to be a pony somewhere,
•Learned to wait, to watch, to think thoughts and not voice them,
•things can spread just like a gossips in a small town of Ayemenem in Kerela.
A lady is judged by everyone for her choices and being reminded that she is without husband and her kids are orphan no matter how independent she is. Society is infested with such shit around.

And of course blood isn’t visible on a black skin. Similarly the words he borne on him aren’t.
Such a revolutionary poetically written book.

It has been narrated by the point of two kids Esthapen and Rahel about the family disputes and repercussions of the choices made and it has a ‘one of a kind’ poetic manner in which it is written…

Stars 4.5/5

Can you craft something very sad in little less sad without removing a real essence of sadness?