It is a satire about the hypocrisy of the socio-political structure and situation of a country ( ours and many other nations ) where people talk high but at the core they cannot go beyond certain conventional ideas and cultural practices. Democracy is about choosing our own government. People rule .
But actually in a satirical way the author has presented the hidden dark truth that who ever shows a minimum knowledge or eligibility to question and stand against any wrong doings are silenced and punished wrongly .
In this fiction it is the atheist , anarchist and intellectuals who are are punished rather given death sentence as they are captured . The best are the intellectuals part as they teach people to be able to understand and question the actual procedure of the system which is a big threat to the government inself. So the author shows that the system wants to deceive citizens with false info too. I liked the character development part. The barber is intelligent , loyal yet he is cunning . He has to lie to survive but conscience hits him once in a while.
HE - Tomikanza is one of the highest national heads of Ghublishtan that is a fictional state and he is old , weird , conservative about world and specially his uncanny believes about patriarchy , religion and women. The sarcastic ways of showing that older people get easier passes even if they commit equal problems was interesting.
YOU MAY CHECK AND BUY THIS PAPERBACK AT :But actually in a satirical way the author has presented the hidden dark truth that who ever shows a minimum knowledge or eligibility to question and stand against any wrong doings are silenced and punished wrongly .
In this fiction it is the atheist , anarchist and intellectuals who are are punished rather given death sentence as they are captured . The best are the intellectuals part as they teach people to be able to understand and question the actual procedure of the system which is a big threat to the government inself. So the author shows that the system wants to deceive citizens with false info too. I liked the character development part. The barber is intelligent , loyal yet he is cunning . He has to lie to survive but conscience hits him once in a while.
HE - Tomikanza is one of the highest national heads of Ghublishtan that is a fictional state and he is old , weird , conservative about world and specially his uncanny believes about patriarchy , religion and women. The sarcastic ways of showing that older people get easier passes even if they commit equal problems was interesting.
Mr.Shashi has touched many such topics - the greed for power , depleting planet and killing people of other lands , the fire of vengeance , deceiving the public and the employees and inturn the corruption stays intact in the system all together is erasing away the main aim of democracy
, good governance and freedom of the citizens are curbed, etc that need to be discussed openly but this indirect presentation in a satire through use of fictional policemen, home security department , religious fanatics , bureaucrats and even that few political parties have tagged them up with a specific religion and belief of having higher rank in god's eyes make it more effective.The language is lucid. As usual the aesthetic quality is excellent.
, good governance and freedom of the citizens are curbed, etc that need to be discussed openly but this indirect presentation in a satire through use of fictional policemen, home security department , religious fanatics , bureaucrats and even that few political parties have tagged them up with a specific religion and belief of having higher rank in god's eyes make it more effective.The language is lucid. As usual the aesthetic quality is excellent.
For me it is a 3.9/5 read.