There
are some people and books with whom you fall in love in first sight
and there are even fewer which live up to the expectations. Mango
People in Banana Republic by Vishak Shakti is one of such books.
As
I read the acknowledgments on the opening page I knew I had many
things in common with the author liking for Arundhati Roy, Deepak
Chopra, Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev, S N Goenka, Swami Dayananda.
Mango
People in Banana Republic is the
story of Ravi who is
depressed with the corporate
life and politics skirting around it. The story takes him to village
where farmers are starving and committing suicides, Maoist
jungles and Ashrams in Rishikesh.
The
writing is simple, lucid and superb. The pace is great. The
scenes are riveting, though not linear. I
really liked reading about the lives of Ravi, Devang and Anand. This
novel is both dark and spiritual. Though I found the reference to
chakras and Rama slightly out of context, I thoroughly enjoyed this
book. It is about both India and Bharat, the haves and have nots and
the struggles, of course on different footings of both these classes.
Mango People in Banana Republic is a highly recommended book.
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