the summary of "the country of no" by Suketu Mehta?
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Explanation:
With this book, I will deviate from the way reviews have been written on this blog. I have been reading this book for last two weeks and it is the longest I have taken to read any book so far. It is a 581 paged book but that was not what made me read this book slow. The clever partitioning of the book in sections helps linking the sequence of events unfolded. The book in itself is so complex, here I m talking of the subject and events uncovered and not the language, that no matter how fast a reader you are you cannot gulp down more than 20 pages at a stretch. It will make you so saturated with the information and yet you would want to come back and complete it. So here I go with the quotes and sections of this book.
Answer:
Author: Suketu Mehta
With this book, I will deviate from the way reviews have been written on this blog. I have been reading this book for last two weeks and it is the longest I have taken to read any book so far. It is a 581 paged book but that was not what made me read this book slow. The clever partitioning of the book in sections helps linking the sequence of events unfolded. The book in itself is so complex, here I m talking of the subject and events uncovered and not the language, that no matter how fast a reader you are you cannot gulp down more than 20 pages at a stretch. It will make you so saturated with the information and yet you would want to come back and complete it. So here I go with the quotes and sections of this book.
Quotes:
"All great cities are schizophrenic said Victor Hugo. Mumbai has multiple personality disorder."
"To take a human life, you first have to deny that the victim is human. You have to reclassify him"
"Back is where to real action is, in the back, smarter people are plotting the next move."
Sections:
The book starts with the personal geography of the writer.
What happens when a teenager who lived 14 years of his life in Southern Bombay moves up to New York, lives everyday feeling a foreigner, counting days to go back to his city, finally returns back to find his dear city has now become Mumbai. The people, the places and everything he once knew have changed beyond recognition. He is know the foreigner in his very own city. This is the journey of the writer in Mumbai of over 2 and a half years.. Of a Bombay lost and found..
The country of No.
excerpt:
India is a country of No. That "no" is your test. You have to get past it. It is India's great wall; it keeps out foreign invaders. India is not a tourist friendly country. It will reveal itself to you only if you stay on, against all odds. The "no" might never change to "yes". But you will stop asking questions.
Powertoni:
This is the section where there is an extensive talk on powertoni which is contraction of "power of attorney".
Excerpt:
Talking about the 1993 riots, Sunil, a worker of Shiv Sena is noted saying,
"Those were not the days for thought," he continued. "We five people burned one Mussulman. At 4 a.m after we heard of Radhabai Chawl, a mob assembled, the likes of which I have never seen, Ladies, gents. They picked up any weapon they could. Then we marched to the Muslim side. We met a pav-wallah on the highway on a bicycle. I knew him, he used to sell me bread everyday.I set him on fire."
Sunil is a cable operator with a good business skill who caters to a large Muslim customers.. He considers himself working for a greater cause!
This section also describes the author meeting with the head of Sena, Bal Thackeray. He is mentioned talking about some article 19 b, c, d,e,f,g.. Not all of them exist. But since he says and no one bother to check, they are thought to be laws that make him right about his stand on immigration.
"It is the longest constitution and probably the least read.People will make of it what they will!"
