I am going to start with the negatives of this book only because I struggled to complete it. For me it did not have the urgency I usually have with book and therefore coming back to it was not natural. I thought the book had a number of themes that were repeated, several times in some instances. ...
I felt that this story of three generations of a punjabi family from pre independance india to Indira Gandhi's emergency could have been a great novel , an epic saga of the changing times with each character vying for centre place but instead i thought it was more of a hurried chronicle of the fa...