They appeared somewhere in the middle, but once I got them I knew where it was going. I did not have them when I started writing the story. “It was after I got these words that I saw the end of the story. He says that he created the word to “suggest that the experience that is captured in the book requires much more than you already know.”
The discovery was also an impetus for him to knit the remainder of the plot and close the book the way it did. Shanbhag, who named his book after a self-created “non-sense” word “Ghachar Ghochar,” says he landed on the word only after having written a significant portion of the 116-page novella. A compilation comprising the most incisive original and evocative voices to come out of Karnataka in the last two decades In Sirigannada the wealth that is Kannada eminent writer Vivek Shanbhag has brought together essays fiction and poetry that best represent the last two decades of literature in this language lush with meaning and nuanceSignificantly writers in Kannada have received the highest number of Jnanpith Awards and this compilation amply demonstrates why they been singled out time after time for that distinction The anthology includes established litterateurs like UR Ananthamurthy Girish Karnad and Chandrashekhar Kambar as well as newer writers such as SunandaKadame They have tackled a wide range of issues globalization caste displacement reality shows that reflect the dramatic social and economic changes that have taken place over the last twenty yearsSrigannada is an anthology that holds a mirror before the diverse cultures and many societies that exist within the contemporary Kannada world 310 pp.Popular Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag’s debut venture in English fiction has an uncanny and intriguing title.
IT IS A FABLE FOR MODERN LIVING THAT WILL RESONATE EVERYWHERE. TOLD IN CLEAR COMPELLING PROSE, AND UNDERSCORED BY WARMTH AND HUMOUR, GHACHAR GHOCHAR IS A CAPTIVATING AND UNSETTLING STORY ABOUT THE SHIFTING MEANING-AND CONSEQUENCES-OF FINANCIAL GAIN IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA. THE FAMILY'S WORLD BECOMES "GHACHAR GHOCHAR'-A NONSENSE PHRASE THAT, TO THE RESTLESS, UNNAMED NARRATOR OF THE BOOK, COMES TO MEAN SOMETHING ENTANGLED BEYOND REPAIR. IN THIS TRANSFORMATIVE NOVEL BY THE ACCLAIMED KANNADA WRITER VIVEK SHANBHAG, A FAMILY'S UNEXPECTED ASCENT FROM AN ANT-RIDDEN SHACK TO MIDDLE-CLASS LIVING SKILFULLY PEELS AWAY THE VENEER OF AN ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY.
"WHEN AN IMPOVERISHED BUT CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY UNDERGOES AN ALMOST MIRACULOUS CHANGE IN FORTUNE, OLD AND TRUSTED CERTAINTIES ARE UNDERMINED: ALLEGIANCES AND DESIRES REALIGN, A MARRIAGE COLLAPSES, AND TENSIONS BUILD UNSTOPPABLY TOWARDS A DEVASTATING CONFLICT.
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