On 4/4/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends in Bombay often remark on how accessible the guy is, and how > remarkable his own life is. For example: http:// > freegeek.livejournal.com/tag/shantaram
Nice link Kiran. I found the book "unputdownable" and read it in three days. The opening paragraph had me hooked: "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life." I have spent all my life in Mumbai but the way he captures Colaba is something that I couldn't even attempt. The most remarkable thing about the book is the sense of understanding and compassion that the author has arrived at. Venky
