MUNMUN SAMANTA

It's a wonderful journey to read Vivek Shanbhag's Ghachar Ghachar. There is no show of unnecessary vocabulary muscle, high flown up language. The story, the plot matches with us, the common people. We can identify ourselves. But apart from this simplicity there is a philosophy at every layer of it as it unravel itself through the progressive plot and multiple characters. The characters like the boss of Appa's office with his flawed pronunciation of "an important matter" to " unimportant matter",Malati's mother-in-law's limping steps due to the arthritis have very little role to play but the minute details of their little roles make them so important and vivid. It proves the efficiency of the writer in character portrayal. The plot is taut and succinct, no elaborate, unnecessary bursting of phraseology and over the head expressions. Above all I like the tart truths of human minds as competently digged up by the writer. Man is controlled by money and power and can fight ferociously with all animosity to keep up their position in family as well as in the society at any cost.