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The Outraged: Times of Ferment
Set largely amidst the independent film community of Mumbai, Times of Ferment, Book 1 of The Outraged, reveals the conflicts that confront Indian liberals—both the hypocritical and those that want to bring about social change—in the wake of the right wing’s ascent to power.
The protagonists include brilliant film-maker and idealist Ahishor Frances, who’s attacked because he exposes ‘Navy Baba’, a God-man, as a fraud; young actress Maithili Krishna, for whom modern civilization is corrupt and requires dismantling; and the happily unemployed Sasha, full of unusual purity and faith in God, who befriends Ahishor and Versova’s ‘strugglers’, and falls in love with Maithili.
What follows when some of these strugglers are galvanized into action by the attack on Ahishor? What drives them to it? What path will Maithili eventually take? Is Sasha’s belief in love and God, vindicated?
The protagonists include brilliant film-maker and idealist Ahishor Frances, who’s attacked because he exposes ‘Navy Baba’, a God-man, as a fraud; young actress Maithili Krishna, for whom modern civilization is corrupt and requires dismantling; and the happily unemployed Sasha, full of unusual purity and faith in God, who befriends Ahishor and Versova’s ‘strugglers’, and falls in love with Maithili.
What follows when some of these strugglers are galvanized into action by the attack on Ahishor? What drives them to it? What path will Maithili eventually take? Is Sasha’s belief in love and God, vindicated?
368 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 20, 2018
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July 2, 2018
My Rating: 3.5 stars
Ahishor Frances, a young film director, whose resentment let him to make a movie against God man and his beliefs. What later follows is more outrageous exertion and the advent of “Friends of Freedom”.
Maithili Krishna, an actress, dejected of modern sophistication opts for a surprising path. Sasha, an unemployed liberal fell badly in love with Maithili and befriends Versova’s fellows.
Narrator Dhruv, detailing about the life and people in the film community and revealing the struggles and conflicts troubling them. It’s a story about urban Indians living out through turmoil and atrocities of life and ending up ranting and enraged.
The book depicts pragmatic contemplation of suburban life and its people living in resentment and outrage at odds with the country and its men. Times of Ferment is the first book of “The Outraged” and the next Times of Strife is yet to follow.
What was Good
Practical and genuine description of characters and their troubles with lucid language is winning in itself.
What wasn’t Good
• Honestly, I didn’t like the narration from Dhruv’s perspective. I wasn’t able to connect with him and his recounting of the plot.
• The book was too slow for me and was getting mundane in the first half.
• The detailed description of other characters felt unnecessary to me.
Why to read this book
If you want to read a realistic and practical book on urban people in the film industry and tumults they are going through, then you should give it a pick.
Ahishor Frances, a young film director, whose resentment let him to make a movie against God man and his beliefs. What later follows is more outrageous exertion and the advent of “Friends of Freedom”.
Maithili Krishna, an actress, dejected of modern sophistication opts for a surprising path. Sasha, an unemployed liberal fell badly in love with Maithili and befriends Versova’s fellows.
Narrator Dhruv, detailing about the life and people in the film community and revealing the struggles and conflicts troubling them. It’s a story about urban Indians living out through turmoil and atrocities of life and ending up ranting and enraged.
The book depicts pragmatic contemplation of suburban life and its people living in resentment and outrage at odds with the country and its men. Times of Ferment is the first book of “The Outraged” and the next Times of Strife is yet to follow.
What was Good
Practical and genuine description of characters and their troubles with lucid language is winning in itself.
What wasn’t Good
• Honestly, I didn’t like the narration from Dhruv’s perspective. I wasn’t able to connect with him and his recounting of the plot.
• The book was too slow for me and was getting mundane in the first half.
• The detailed description of other characters felt unnecessary to me.
Why to read this book
If you want to read a realistic and practical book on urban people in the film industry and tumults they are going through, then you should give it a pick.
July 12, 2019
At first I would like to mention that I loved the book cover. I would have easily fallen for this cover. It's really difficult to discuss blurb here because the plot is so vast that I am confused that what to mention, what not to. The story begins with scene of two sisters and mention of Sadhguru. And from then number of characters added time to time. Among all my favourite part or characters we can say is Elena and Shasha. I loved their conversations in the chapter named "A conversation" It is wonderfully written. The plot is really different. I have never come across such type of story line with these many characters. Initially it takes a time to enter in the story but after a while it holds the grip on the reader. The story becomes interesting from the point of Ruhi Khanna's death/suicide. If we talk overall, as I said, the plot is different. The writing style of the author is smooth. I like the way he described scenes and landscapes. There is a good use of vocabulary but one point that I would definitely love to mention is that the author has tried to cover huge story line in limited pages, so the story has become little messy. Like I had to continuously turn pages back to remember. And specifically the chapter "The Manifesto" has been written so elaborately that it's like another whole reading. Instead author could have use more pages/books. It would have been nice reading this plot in detail. But that is a minor thing. Overall it's really a different read and well written. It's a good one.
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