Re: Rushdie's Enchantress

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Shiv Pabba <pabbashivkumar@gmail.com> wrote:

I read this otherwise tedious book over a very long month, especially using the eerie repose of the wee hours.  The overindulgence in fantasy was taxing the spirits, but Rushdie's style holds.  In this novel he delves into the Mughal past right upto Akbar's rule to relate to relate to the barren thoughtless violent age in which we live.  Here Akbar is presented as a man of imagination, a visionary ruler, a philosopher, a man of culture, and a dreamer who, along among all the great minds he surrounds himself with, opens up to the weird charms of a foreigner claiming kin with him from the side of his great aunt, Qara Koz, the Lady Dark Eyes!!!  (contd)

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Warangal 506002
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Landline: 0870-2447111