The last book I read was Shantaram, a recollection of facts with whole lot of fiction by the Australian author. The book is lucidly written and makes for interesting reading throughtout its 900+ pages. The story of Lin-baba or Shantaram takes the protaganist from his Australian prison high walls to Mumbai and from Mumbai to Afganistan and then back to Mumbai, where the story ends.
The charcters that make the book are extremes and yet lovable to the core. If Prabhaker was the ever smiling chap in the book, Kaderbhai was the ever so calm and dominant one who controls everyone through his mesmerising words and daring actions. If Abdul Ghani was the ultimate traitor, Karla was the ultimate seductress and qouter of qoutes.
The book traces the protaganist's encounters of affairs, friendships, enimities, horrors and happiness, all with a mirror to his own past before he jumped the high walls of the Australian prison. He is the yaaro ka yaar and dushmano ka dushman. He is the quinessential hero who sees and experiences everything and anything without regrets even if it means he is on the wrong side of the law while being beside his pals from the Mumbai underworld or being a doctor treating the slum dwellers while having no qualification whatsoever.
So in effect the book is the story about the adventurous one within each one of us. Read the book to know what your heart always wanted to be...
posted by Akhilesh @ 5:53 AM
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