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A book is successful..when it captivates the readers interest throughout…while there are readers with varied interests…!
Most…of the times…I get annoyed to see men intruding into the ladies’ compartment in MMTS train, Hyderabad. Further I vent out my anger by asking them to leave or read the instruction saying boldly that “You need to pay fine under such offence”. Today, I was rather immersed in a book in one corner, when I found one Guy confidently boarding up…I was about to say my usual dialogues… when he started saying,…”Come on guy’s get out of this compartment, it’s a ladies one…” This guy turned out to be the TT who was actually warding them off…Not my fault entirely cause I gazed at him thinking if, he was in his uniform or something…but then finally I sighed a sense of relief saying…”Thank God I didn’t blurt out today at least else would have been the laughing stock for the day”.
Just finished reading another book by Premchand…surprisingly in a day’s time…! Premchand is a proven literary genius. One thing that I have observed that in his writings he has portrayed the emblem of women as so serene, defenseless and enduring.
“Nirmala” is a fine rendition of a typical Indian household of a middle class background. The protagonist, Nirmala goes through several upheavals in life and susceptible to pain, agony and misery of all sorts beginning from the age of 15 when her wedding is fixed at a tender age and then losing her father amongst the wedding preparations, her would-be in laws consider her as a bad omen and break the relation , and not just that due to financial crisis after losing an earning member in the family her wedding is finally fixed with a middle-aged man who already has 3 children…further situations are even worse and it leaves you aghast thinking that life could be so aching.
A good read overall but a bit saddening of course since there’s no end to the pain in Nirmala’s life.
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