Book Review #49 - Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag and Srinath Perur (Translator)

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The title itself will give a sort of “mystery” kind of thrill to start over the short story. And believe me, it's worth a shot!

Everything about the story is bound to highlight something to the middle class family and its consequences. How money can transform the outer appearance, but never the nature behind the fleshy walls - you can see every layer of humanity clearly through the eyes of the author. This is a kind of tale where everything happens for a good reason, but then nothing becomes good eventually because behind the bars, it is creating loopholes in the mindset too.

Readers will see the kind of childhood one has to spend when there is very little to share but a big heart to cherish the memories. And on the other hand, how one will be alone in a big mansion owning a huge pile of fake responsibilities and dependent work environments. The author has created such an aura for the head of the family - not the one who outcast everyone with age, but the one who earns bread for the family and let the whole family go crazy over and over for the fact that no one has to work at all. How this little thought can make the family’s peace at stake, and how one can’t do anything about it.

The story is a clever portrayal of ants through various stages of life changes.  What I loved the most is the representation of tiny details through a common member of the family. It gives a perspective of an outsider situation of the family business. And how the end relates with the beginning. You can never imagine from the narrative that after everything, family sticks together, no matter what! 

Anyone can give it a try, after all it's a very short read!

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