Varsha Rajput

I would give the novel 4 stars because it's so close to reality. It isn't fancy and is as unhappening and monotonous like life in haveli. As we see Geeta giving into ways of haveli, we see something of us dying inside and that is romanticism, hopes. The detachment with which the narration has been done and the way characters have been done, so dead, so fearing, so conformed. It makes me dislike the ways, but I thank Rama Mehta to portray such a life too, before people. It's totally a different world inside the haveli and to them that is their world. It's so hopeless a way of life, and the helplessness of the protagonist seems so personal. I read the novel many years ago in my B.A course. And I came to conclusion that time that it would takes efforts of generations to bring a change in society. I might see it differently now, after so many years. But thats the impression I have of it, from those days.