"The kitten is being carried by the cat.We would all be kittens carried by the cat. Some, who are lucky will one day know it. Others live hearing meow-meow"
This is a beautiful allusion to the concept of Karma by Raja Rao in his celebrated classic - The Cat and the Shakespeare equating the Karma to the Mother Cat who carries her kittens (meaning us - the humans) by her teeth to ensure protection and love while the kitten is oblivious.
A slow burning terror-ific novel that beautifully yet tragically depicts the degradation of human mind.
"Thoughts are our thread to sanity but they are also the evil demons that severe the same thread to rot in an insane drudgery."
Story of a land ripe with folklores and myths, where fantasy, beliefs, faith and cruel reality create a potent embrace of life.
It talks of people and their inner battles, of dreams and rotten realities,of the past and the present!
The legends detail the clash that brews with the onslaught of a western rationale on the rigid cultural orthodoxy of the land.
#Khasakkinte_ittihasam #2022_reads #malayalam_modern_classics
"Everyone must have heard about Hercule Poirot" - the little grey cells assert
Everything leads the way to the ultimate question... Who are we? What is life? How did we come into being? And what's the purpose of our existence?
Me : looking for answers within words, and finding an altogether different amalgamation of a fictional real world
