Read Bapsi Sidhwa's Water.
It takes you back to another era, and you wonder how different things were.
One of the few occasions where you notice that the book is based on the movie (in this case Water, by Deepa Mehta), and not the other way around. A simple and quick read but quite moving. This is the last in the Trilogy - Earth, Fire, Water. Somehow it seems like the entire premise would seem more appealing to non-Indians. A bunch of widows in an ashram ranging from 6 to 70, a eunuch, a society believing in traditions and rituals, the advent of Gandhi and the nationalist movement - all intriguing, especially to the foreign audiences.
A book that makes you ponder about the bygone era.
It takes you back to another era, and you wonder how different things were.
One of the few occasions where you notice that the book is based on the movie (in this case Water, by Deepa Mehta), and not the other way around. A simple and quick read but quite moving. This is the last in the Trilogy - Earth, Fire, Water. Somehow it seems like the entire premise would seem more appealing to non-Indians. A bunch of widows in an ashram ranging from 6 to 70, a eunuch, a society believing in traditions and rituals, the advent of Gandhi and the nationalist movement - all intriguing, especially to the foreign audiences.
A book that makes you ponder about the bygone era.
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