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Ghachar Ghochar<\/em> by Vivek Shanbhag is a story about a family who becomes rich overnight, thanks to a flourishing business, and how the money eats into their lives; like ants.<\/p>\n

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\u201c…it\u2019s not we who control money, it\u2019s the money that controls us. When there\u2019s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Quintessentially Indian<\/h3>\n

There are two kinds of Indian novels- the ones that are Indian to please the readers, especially the foreign ones, and the ones that are actually Indian. Ghachar Ghochar<\/em> falls into the latter category. I am amazed how Shanbhag managed to do this in such brevity and clarity. The book felt so real, the scenes right out of life.<\/p>\n

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Encroaching money<\/h3>\n

A lower middle class family of modest means comes across new money when they start a business of spices. This alters their life style as well relationships between one another. They move into a better neighbourhood as the first step. Slowly, new changes appear in the family due to the new wealth. Once, the father of our narrator was the sole bread winner. The family was a close knit family; they did not go out and eat at restaurants; they used to keep a note of their expenditure; and think twice about lighting a gas stove.<\/p>\n

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But once the uncle, Chikkappa, starts the business, money kept pouring in and they began to enjoy . Only the father seems hesitant to enjoy the new found riches – “Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He\u2019s given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn\u2019t strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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When the narrator\u2019s sister stays out most of the time and keeps eating at restaurants, it feels odd to the shells of their past lives but normal to their new way of living.<\/p>\n

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The unnamed narrator<\/h3>\n

When I read the last page of the book, I realized I did not know the name of the narrator. The novel starts with our narrator in a coffee house, observing the happenings around and swimming in his thoughts. I felt as if I was sitting in the same coffeehouse and he was pouring out his heart to me. The narrator tells us how money just gets deposited in his account every month without him having to do anything. He was very happy about this arrangement until he gets married and the need to put up a false fa\u00e7ade arises.<\/p>\n

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Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“…and his wife, Anita<\/h3>\n

It is with the addition of Anita, the narrator\u2019s new wife, into the family that the readers begin to see the widening cracks. Anita is a simple girl who keeps asking the narrator whether he has enough days off from work for their honeymoon. This is\u00a0 a huge blow to him\u00a0 because the narrator only \u2018kills time with dedication\u2019<\/em>; he does not do any work. In order to gain the respect of the respect of his work, he pretends to be at work at the office; but he is clueless what happens there since the business is run by his uncle. He is a \u00a0crossroad in life because he doesn\u2019t have a job but his wife insists on being self reliant.<\/p>\n

The word \u2018ghachar ghochar\u2019 is\u00a0 a nonsensical word that Anita uses and it translates to \u2018tangled beyond repair\u2019. The narrator hears it at first when he tries to untie his wife\u2019s petticoat string at their honeymoon suite but is unable to. And the same way, his life seems to be tangled up too.<\/p>\n

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The Great Indian Novel<\/h3>\n

This novel has been called as The Great Indian novel by New York Times<\/a><\/span>. (However I\u00a0 cringed on reading in the NYT review that this is written in \u2018bhasha, one of India\u2019s vernacular languages\u2019. \u2018Bhasha\u2019 means language and the book is written in Kannada, which is the name of the language. This is another case of \u2018chai tea\u2019 for \u2018chai\u2019 and \u2018naan bread\u2019 for \u2018naan\u2019! Aren\u2019t all books written in a bhasha\/language?). Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City<\/em>, calls Shanbhag as the \u2018Indian Chekov\u2019. The book is just a 100 pages long, but in it are imprisoned well fleshed characters, the life of a lower middle class family, the power of money and the menace of ants that alludes to the family\u2019s rising financial situation and problems.<\/p>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

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Strong Women<\/h3>\n

All the women do not have an equally prominent voice in the novel. But they make their presence felt. \u201cOn that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

When the narrator gets married, there is friction between his mother, sister and Anita. They seem to want to hurt the other by being possessive of him. These scenes were sarcastic, humorous and contained bitter truths. I loved Anita as a character. It was refreshing to see a positive take on arranged marriage (something that is often made rotten in many Indian books), her stubbornness to be self reliant and the narrator\u2019s observation that \u2018money did not satisfy her needs\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Final Verdict<\/h3>\n

Highly recommended. This is a novel that is wonderfully Indian in its soul and not one that was made Indian for the sake of it. I have not even mentioned the references to ants in the novel; but that is for you to find out.<\/p>\n

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I only wish this was a longer book. I wish we had more books like this. I also wish you will read this book.<\/p>\n

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Title : Ghachar Ghochar
\nAuthor : Vivek Shanbhag
\nTranslator : Srinath Perur
\nPublisher : Harper Perennial
\nPublication: 2015
\nLanguage : Translated from the Kannada
\nPages : 117
\nRating : 4\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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