Book Review: Listening To Grass Hopper
'Listening To Grass Hopper' underlines the inconsistencies in the largest democracies of the world and makes the general public aware (if they aren't till date!) of what lies underneath the blooming flowers.
AFTER THE award winning ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy, it was different to see what was there in ‘Belly of The Beast’ and with the ‘Algebra of Infinite Justice’ the democratic calculations of additions and subtractions were again out in the open. ‘Listening To Grass Hopper’ underlines the inconsistencies in the largest democracies of the world and makes the general public aware (if they aren’t till date!) of what lies underneath the blooming flowers. The more than obvious attitude of any Indian blaming the in power government (who cares what the opposition says isn’t it) is the idea behind this book and is also the kind of attitude the author is trying to change. It may appear that the author is an upcoming ticket holder from the mighty Congress, but the book is as real as anything on politics would ever get. By again and again redefining the term democracy, the literary powers of the author have grown to such an extent and can delude the readers from the fundamental meaning of the term.
If you know a historian, than do sit with him sometimes for a cup of coffee and he will tell you, that this mighty big nation has innumerable instances where the basic reason for its very existence were defied and debated upon, but he will also tell you that the nation still stands. Even if it does not hold its head high, it still pretends to do so and with a hell lot of accuracy. Jai ho!
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