http://www.shelfari.com/books/25562397/The-Royal-Enigma
Set in the unsettling politics of India and Nepal as a backdrop, where the popular leaders have to be assassinated mostly, Nawin lives through the Maoist-war in the country, bearing the hardship it caused to the ordinary people like him. He finally discovers how much his step-mother had helped him, when his mother had died recently, when he and his brother were too young. He also feels his helplessness for not being able to support her, in her efforts to maintain her mentally-invalid son, at a late age. Also is described the rule of monarchy in Nepal in this book, when it held the absolute power, and the royal massacre, which eliminated the entire family of the king, when the monachy had become constitutional. During the Maoist-war, the violence unleashed by them and counter-violence by the security forces of the state too are dealt in fair-details. This book is a serious effort to define the socio-politics of the Indian subcontinent, through fiction, which has been remarkably violent–as far as one could remember. Also it speculates on how things have turned in a way that the economy is suffering in most of the world–while the Moguls like Rupert Murdoch have fallen.
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November 13, 2011 at 11:06 pm |
I’m going to buy this for my kindle and read and review it. Created a book for goodreads here : http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13054033-the-royal-enigma
November 20, 2011 at 1:39 am |
“The speeches, the longest one by Sharat Shah, always concluded by loudly hailing the King and the queen, on the loudspeakers: which were already making a low-screeching sound, due to some technical problem, which reduced the speeches to a noise only. The hailing of the king and the queen were the loudest and the most audible part of a speech above the screeching, which most of the people in the stadium and the players repeated thankfully, for it also meant that one more speech was over.
November 20, 2011 at 1:41 am |
“The obscenities were written on the walls of the monastery, and genital were drawn with chalk. Which the caretaker of the monastery removed often, with a wet piece of cloth; though there was a warning painted on the wall, prohibiting the people smoking drugs or indulging in immoral activities, for it was a religious shrine. He often saw the caretaker pouring used up lubricant procured from an automobile workshop, where the visitors could have probably sat. But the rains washed it away soon. The young couples were seen there sitting together, holding hands and talking intimately; or the groups of the young men smoking drugs and talking in a subdued manner.”
November 20, 2011 at 1:46 am |