Shantaram

Shantaram who? Or atleast how does the name sounds? i guess most of you could think of the name for a swamy or a saint or for a religious chanting. Well, let me keep it for myself for a while , but not too long jus before i finish this blog.

Many of you must have read sensational, thrillin, mind-blowin, romantic, hard-to-put-down, suspense, heart-throbbin.... oh man, will i jus runout of words to club all kinda categories from the world of novels? i should guess so. Whatsoever, every book has its own literature to unveil at expose! exaggeratin the art of thought-to-hand.

But this one novel i finished turnin pages recently had it all, all the stuff that could be enjoyed in all the categories of books, i mentioned before, put together. A stubborn classic work of literature, and i mean the word stubborn with intensity.

Moreover, what surprises about this book is its an autobiography of a criminal elaboratin deep aspects of his life. The chronology of events is so acutely recollected from the memory banks which makes the book look more fictional, infact some part of it is, than non-fictional.

Nevertheless, its a complete capture of emotions right through a smile to laugh, anxiety to rage, scary to horrible, pale to sorrow, sobbin to outcry, like to love, foe to friends, sick to worse, betray to promise, owe to favor, fate to luck.... oh my god! thats infinite but worth mentionin. So much more to each and every character, that appear inline to the story.

Theres so much enough and voluminous wisdom all along the book, in every page, with well-tailored reality and philosophy. And let me put it straight that, its not like any philosophical volume penned by someone like Paulo coelho.

The guy then was a freakin criminal ( did wrong things for right reasons ) and now a philanthropist who along with his wife and others has set up charity in the name of "Heart For India", heartforindia.org, to serve the destitutes of the country he loves and owes so much, thats India. And to add more, one of its center is in Mylapore, Chennai.

Above all the book deals most of the time answerin "How to move on?" and i bet u'll certainly find an answer to atleast one of the difficult questions of ur life. Its a damn dashin read, you jus could not resist yourself to miss a word.Well, i cannot further reveal the insights of the beauty of this remarkably impressive autobiography. I dont either expect critics or force you to read the book.

All i can say, about the book, is "You would love to be a criminal after readin this book."

Explore it yourself! its kinda "must-read" or precisely "dont-miss" category.

Veg-Non-veg

Before i scribble anything further, i just want to stay out of taking sides, neither  Vegetarian nor Non-vegetarian  columns.  More than taking sides, i do not imply anything  about my likes and dislikes.

Since childhood, I have been constantly spectating debates on  veg and non-veg  and often ended up with a dilemma like “whether the egg came first or the hen?”.  Well nothing can be changed as of now, its footprinted in the minds  of people.  Yes, let me have the definitions first,

Herbivorous ,  generally called the vegetarians are a class of people/animals who depend upon  the  “natural food” stuff  (intentionally quoted ).

Carnivorous, the “flesh eaters” (again, intentionally quoted) with prefix tag of Non to vegetarian. And last but not least, the omnivorous class, i just zip it out of discussion.

Ok now, i would like to mention our very own Indian scientist, Sir J C Bose who made a startling discovery of this mysterious nature; that each and every plant on this earth respire, more simply put they too breathe like humans.

 And by all means, correct me if the following interpretation is wrong:  Breathing certainly defines life and none of you would miss the missing piece, i.e, a plant is ultimately “natural flesh”.  Now i seriously don’t have clue where in the world the words veg and non-veg emerged from, probably from vegetables i guess!.

Those who eat  “natural flesh” would still be skeptic of the above and definitely compel a debate. Frankly,  I’ve nothing personal to their sentiments. Its just  my opinion about this long running debate “veg- non-veg”. Also for those who eat “literal flesh”, nothing personal again.

No idea how to conclude?, but one thing is for sure, if there is this debate out in the open then atleast one layman from the first class of people will wave the banner “SAVE ANIMALS” and as to apply Newton’s third law, atleast one layman from the latter class of people will wave the banner “SAVE TREES”.

Save trees or save animals, both are an integral part of this nature maintaining the thin wire of ecological balance and we are well aware of the fact since our school science. Professionaly speaking, you do have to provide a lot of documented proof to enable and convey something like the one in the picture, so i kinda pulled it from Veg-Non-Veg dumb stuff and drag it to "Save the planet".  Sounds ridiculous, like this or not, critics most welcome.