Reading this Novel was interesting absorbing and intriguing all at the same time. It is a pleasure writing a review for this book This is a Novel which unfolds a story almost effortlessly through a chain of dream sequences on board of a late night Delhi- London flight .This is the author's second book. If his first book was a collection of 27 short stories based on his encounters in day to dav life, this book I can say is all about an Encounter of third kind.
The book casually starts off in the Aircraft where our protagonist picks up conversations with few fellow passengers while the aircraft is still on a start mode for a take off. The way the author has presented the ongoing tete-a-tete and the Air hostess/Flight attendants routine rituals proves that he has that stuff of being a keen observer of minute details. He has captured them all beautifully The entire book is on a simple conversational mode and you almost begin to feel being a part of the book as you skim through the pages.
The flight when finally takes off and settles on the sky, passengers are served the drinks Our protagonist is dozing away after a couple of drinks. The story begins with his dream sequence that follows. He finds himself among the twenty odd intellectuals specialized in various field from Science to Mathematics to Journalism that get hijacked on a small plane. This hijacked plane then lands and there is no runway. This is where the fascinating trip to human manufacturing site begins for these twenty some From here onwards the book becomes a conducted pilgrimage into the realm of human traits and their behavioural psychology .The book in parts also tries to explore the animal in human,.
The study of human psychology is an academic reading reserved for a select audience and remains beyond the ordinary people's understanding. Now making it an absorbing and intriguing reading for the ordinary people like me proves that this book is author's "Master's Stroke".
The book may not be an unputable reading but it remains absorbing and interesting to the last page. It neatly unfolds through uncharted sequences, our journey from being a four legged animal to becoming the "Human Being" that we are. However to understand "Are we all humane enough"?..We need to look for the 'animal' within and that is a challenge I would never take..
Strangely after finishing reading this immensely absorbing and wonderful book "A Fascinating Trip to Human manufacturing Site" I found myself standing in my balcony gazing the far away sky looking for those twinkling little stars.Why I don't know..! Perhaps I was musing over the idea of a Trip...."Sitaron Se Aage" !
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