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Cheeni Jo Meethi Na Thi - چینی جو میٹھی نہ تھی
252 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2013
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August 22, 2018
Disappointing. Plain and simplistic approach to touch such a sensitive issue of migration and slavery. Have to skip a lot of pages just to end the book.
The biggest problem with the writer is that he does not develop characters properly. The dialogues do not seem to come from the characters but from some researcher (some google search may be). A 19th century village lady describes economic exploitation of British Government using terms like 'tax'. An Indian character of slave trade agent talks in Bhojpuri style while his audience are people in rural Bengal. I don't know but I have serious doubts that 'Raam Leela' was / is popular in parts of Bengal and jogis in rural Bengal used to quote Bhagat Kabir. This all shows that the author might not have researched the background for his characters properly and is more inspired of general perception portrayed in bolloywood movies.
The book also lacks proper editing. A book which was supposed to give more about condition of Indian migrants in Surinam just dedicates last 30-40 pages on the matter and that too in a simplistic way. When you compare it with well researched Ya gyaasi's novel 'homegoing', this novel appears like an essay written by some school going child.
The biggest problem with the writer is that he does not develop characters properly. The dialogues do not seem to come from the characters but from some researcher (some google search may be). A 19th century village lady describes economic exploitation of British Government using terms like 'tax'. An Indian character of slave trade agent talks in Bhojpuri style while his audience are people in rural Bengal. I don't know but I have serious doubts that 'Raam Leela' was / is popular in parts of Bengal and jogis in rural Bengal used to quote Bhagat Kabir. This all shows that the author might not have researched the background for his characters properly and is more inspired of general perception portrayed in bolloywood movies.
The book also lacks proper editing. A book which was supposed to give more about condition of Indian migrants in Surinam just dedicates last 30-40 pages on the matter and that too in a simplistic way. When you compare it with well researched Ya gyaasi's novel 'homegoing', this novel appears like an essay written by some school going child.
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