DEAF HEAVEN....!!!

Here is a book i've been trying to finish for months now.... the reason behind it isn't that the book is boring. but more like i found more interesting things to do with my time then read this book. see the book is about this lady, Saraswati who dies in library on a friday evening and since her body will not be found till monday morning when the library opens again, she takes on the character of a sutradhar (someone acting as the link between the lives of strangers and narrating their stories). When i read this, the book sounded very interesting and then it was one of the crossword recommended books too.. so i purchased the book.

The book was very interesting till its first 100 pages and then suddenly, the book had so many new characters. characters that just came from no where. the book kept me engrossed till it was following the lives of four women but by the end of the book it had spoken of atleast 10 women.

By the time i reached the 150 page i guess i was lost i had no clue where i was.. but i'm not one to leave a book half way through how ever bored i get and this book i had to finish because i wanted to understand what was special in the book to have made it into the crossword recommends. honestly, even after finishing the book i haven't figured it out. i just know that i wasted 300rs on a book that i din't even enjoy. there might be people out there who liked the book but i'm definitely not one of them.

Anyway, the reason for writing about this book was not to criticize the book. but actually to just give my views on something that the book mentions. well you can say that those are my favorite pages also in the book starting from 240 to 246. there isn't much in these pages except for just paragraphs of news reports from recent newspapers. and not one news was a happy one. it was all about robbery, bulling, rape, hijacks, riots,etc. it made me realize what an unsafe world we are living in.

The pages were shouting at me and telling me "see this is the true india/world", the rich get richer, and the bloody poor get poorer. the political party supporter and workers bully the general public for everything, money can buy everything even justice. the police, the so-called protectors and implementers of law and orders are f*****g  b@$*@#ds... they commit a crime every single day but they are supposedly the ones to protect us. they take advantage of the innocent and we are suppose to go to them for help. i think the best way to ensure law and order in india is by hanging each and every one of these losers ( police, politicians, influential people who use their power for wrong purposes, etc) by their B@**$..i don't even know if i'm making sense anymore. but i don't really care.

They say that the public has no right to say anything because we choose the damn politicians and ruling parties but what those people don't remember is that what is in the election manifest is a beautiful cake made of plastic... its just a show piece none of it edible. the day these f*@k%#$ start putting something real in front of the people is the day when voting for an election is going to be of use to india. otherwise we are a democracy in the name only, but nothing is really democratic about us.

We say India is all about unity in diversity, i say my foot it is. its a very good motto.. but like hell its true. if this is unity in diversity then i dread to think of what would happen if we really had no unity.

I just remembered something interesting from the book. it has given a very good idea of when civilization ended. it says that happened when people began to think life as only about the 4 Zs.... namely

Zar - material effects including zevar(jewelery)

Zoru - women/wife

Zameen - land

Zor - force

I believe that the reason India is dying is because even though there are 4 Zs. the emphasis is only on one i.e. on ZOR. the more u have the more you become respectable.even if your a rapist or a cold blooded murderer. a person without Zor in todays India is like an open target anything can happen to him anywhere and no one cares. he can go to the police all he wants but they will help the one who has zor and gives them zar. and in this case its not just the police, its every single person. a roadside hawker will answer the person from a big car before he tends to a person on a scooter. a sales person will not bother with you if you don't look influential, etc.

Its a crazy place. all this just teaches you that your living in a world where only one thing matters

 "power"

and

"money = power"

because today your powerful if you have something to offer the person in front of you that he or she doesn't have in turn leading to corruption.Aaaaarrrrgggggghhhhh.... all this just makes me more angry.

Anyway i'm done for now. will come back again when i can start making sense of what i'm writing...

GOOD NIGHT...

P.S. my favorite quote from the book

"If a penis alone could aid ascendancy, women the world over would strap one on during work hours"

 P.g. 253, Deaf Heaven.

"Terrorism takes birth because of the profound failure of politicians, in material and philosophical terms, to fulfill their most fundamental obligations to people who elected them" 

P.g. 229, Deaf Heaven 

Oh... and the book gives the perfect definition of a RIOT. it says the riots are a sick expression of regional honour and nationalism, where a list of names and addresses are handed out to the retaliators with the permission to do whatever they want to do for vengeance. I believe this to be terrorism but then again riot is a form of terrorism too...