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Book review – Ravan & Eddie by Kiran Nagarkar

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Constructive Criticism: Book reviews

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book review, chawl, christian hindu, cuckold, customs, eddie, Humor, kiran nagarkar, ravan

Twitter review: Vibrant premise. Promising buildup. Crazy characters. Parallel worlds. Dry wit. Wet dreams. Anti-climactic climax.

ravan & eddie

Exciting setup: Ram is a product of soporific Shankar & voluptuous Parvati. A freak accident converts baby Ram into a murderer(!!), gets him newly coined as Ravan (to ward off the evil eye) and unwittingly links his life forever with Eddie, son of the ‘murdered’ Victor. Aha!

Quaint world, a far cry from kiran nagarkar Kiran Nagarkar’s ‘Cuckold’.

Parallel criss-cross lives: Ravan is coaxed towards Hinduism and Eddie towards Christianity. Instead, both rebel and trespass into other’s territory.

Ravan gets into Eklavya-mode and finds his tutor Dronacharya in a Taekwondo Continue reading →

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