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AAVARANA
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| Author:
S L Bhyrappa
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Because my questions made Amir
uncomfortable, he pronounced talaq just like that on the wife who had
abandoned everything for him because his religion gives him that privilege.
Where do I now stand, sir? Do you have any solutions for me?’ Lakshmi, a rebellious,
free-spirited and intelligent film-maker, breaks ties with her staunchly
Gandhi an father to marry Amir, the man she loves. She even agrees
reluctantly to Amir’s request that she convert to Islam, as a formality and
change her name to Razia. However, she is shocked to discover that her
husband is not the open-minded, progressive individual he claimed to be. For
after marriage, Amir takes his family’s side in trying to force her to follow
the more rigorous tenets of their faith. This sets her off on a personal
journey into India’s history to uncover the many layers of religion, caste
and creed. Her quest leads her to the many parallels in the narratives
between the past and the present and she gradually finds that though much has
changed in Indian society over the centuries, much remains the same. The
second historical novel by celebrated Kannada author S.L. Bhyrappa,
translated for the first time into English by Sandeep Balakrishna, Aavarana:
The Veil raises pertinent and searching questions about religion, liberalism
and identity and highlights the importance of unshackling oneself from the
bonds of false knowledge. Book Features: Raises questions and uncovers truths
about religion and historyGoes deep into history to reveal the extent of tyranny
by foreign invaders in IndiaWas a bestseller in Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil and
other vernacular languagesThe Kannada version was sold out even before its
release in February 2007. It went into 10reprints within 5 months of its
release
1 review for AAVARANA
Description
Because my questions made Amir
uncomfortable, he pronounced talaq just like that on the wife who had
abandoned everything for him because his religion gives him that privilege.
Where do I now stand, sir? Do you have any solutions for me?’ Lakshmi, a rebellious,
free-spirited and intelligent film-maker, breaks ties with her staunchly
Gandhi an father to marry Amir, the man she loves. She even agrees
reluctantly to Amir’s request that she convert to Islam, as a formality and
change her name to Razia. However, she is shocked to discover that her
husband is not the open-minded, progressive individual he claimed to be. For
after marriage, Amir takes his family’s side in trying to force her to follow
the more rigorous tenets of their faith. This sets her off on a personal
journey into India’s history to uncover the many layers of religion, caste
and creed. Her quest leads her to the many parallels in the narratives
between the past and the present and she gradually finds that though much has
changed in Indian society over the centuries, much remains the same. The
second historical novel by celebrated Kannada author S.L. Bhyrappa,
translated for the first time into English by Sandeep Balakrishna, Aavarana:
The Veil raises pertinent and searching questions about religion, liberalism
and identity and highlights the importance of unshackling oneself from the
bonds of false knowledge. Book Features: Raises questions and uncovers truths
about religion and historyGoes deep into history to reveal the extent of tyranny
by foreign invaders in IndiaWas a bestseller in Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil and
other vernacular languagesThe Kannada version was sold out even before its
release in February 2007. It went into 10reprints within 5 months of its
release
About Author
S L Bhyrappa, the Kannada novelist, is regarded as one of India’s foremost writers. His works are unique in terms of theme, structure and characterisation. Bhyrappa participated in the freedom struggle, but believes that Indian Independence was just a political freedom and that real Independence is the intellectual freedom which is nurtured by the strong foundations laid in the teachings of rich Indian culture and values. Bhyrappa has been honoured with many awards including the ‘Saraswathi Samman’ for Mandra. His novels have been translated into almost all Indian languages. He retired as a Professor of Philosophy from Mysore University and lives in Mysore.
L V Shanthakumari is a life-member of ‘Akhila Karnataka Lekakhiyara Sangha’. Her poems, articles and critical essays are published in Kannada and English magazines and journals. She has translated award winning books to and from Kannada including Bhyrappa’s Mandra (published by Niyogi Books) and Bhitti along with Dr S Ramaswamy. She has authored Yugasaakshi, a critical study on S L Bhyrappa’s novels. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
1 review for AAVARANA
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First of all, I want to thank my friend Ashish Iyer for recommending such a great book to me.
Just like the germs of a dark hole can’t tolerate a single ray of light, when countered with truth, the pseudo-secular left-jihadi ecosystem yells, “hate, hate-speech, hatred, islamophobia, communalism, bigotry, gobar, gau-mutra” and what not! (Apart from personal attacks and abuses). If you want fame, just abuse Indic values, this ecosystem will make you famous. But, if you say anything against their narratives, you should be ready for attacks after attacks from them. You can assume the immense power of this eco-system by these facts. For fighting and uprooting them, we need more brave authors like S.L. Bhyrappa and we should support them immensely.
Aavarana means veil or cover in Sanskrit. So, this book talks about such a veil, the dangerous veil of false-knowledge of history. You know that many fancy fairy tales written by many Romila Thapars and Irfan Habibs are being taught as history in the institutions of our nation. These false histories are created to make the generations hate their culture and civilization and love that of the colonizers of the past. This novel talks about this. This is the story of how this ecosystem manipulates our history.
This book starts with a free-spirited girl named Lakshmi, who married his boyfriend Amir and converted to Islam, inspired by a leftist scholar professor NSN Shastri. He was renamed to Raziya Qureshi, against the oppose of his father, who denied to give his daughter to a staunch Islamist despite of being a Gandhian.
After their marriage, Lakshmi tasted the flavor of orthodox Islamism from her in laws, the Tablighi Jamatis and at last his beloved husband Amir, who pronounced talaq to her at last. But prof. Shastri settled their quarrel. After that, Amir and Raziya became busy in the govt-funded documentaries which were made to show cruel Islamic invaders in a modest light.
At that time Raziya received the news of the death of her father and came to her village Narasapura. She discovered many books based on the history of the advent of Islam in Bharat in his father’s bookshelf. She came to know that her father was researching about Islamic invaders after the love-marriage of her daughter to a Islamist. She started continuing his research and writing a novel on it. Then, the journey of exploration of the manipulation of history and correcting it with contemporary sources begins.
There is descriptions of a event, where a boy was turned to a eunuch forcefully, which gave me traumas for sometimes. So, I would not recommend this novel to feeble-hearted people. But for the sake of the future of our nation, one should read this and this great book should be passed through generations. One thing that the author missed is the fact that people like prof. Shastri receives fundings from anti-Indian sources indirectly.
To make our nation thrive, this ecosystem should be pushed to death. So, I think we should avoid the books, movies and everything that this eco-system makes or supports and our current govt should exhaust their sources of fundings completely. Brave film-makers like Vivek Agnihotri should make a movie based on this novel.
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Akash Datta (verified owner) –
First of all, I want to thank my friend Ashish Iyer for recommending such a great book to me.
Just like the germs of a dark hole can’t tolerate a single ray of light, when countered with truth, the pseudo-secular left-jihadi ecosystem yells, “hate, hate-speech, hatred, islamophobia, communalism, bigotry, gobar, gau-mutra” and what not! (Apart from personal attacks and abuses). If you want fame, just abuse Indic values, this ecosystem will make you famous. But, if you say anything against their narratives, you should be ready for attacks after attacks from them. You can assume the immense power of this eco-system by these facts. For fighting and uprooting them, we need more brave authors like S.L. Bhyrappa and we should support them immensely.
Aavarana means veil or cover in Sanskrit. So, this book talks about such a veil, the dangerous veil of false-knowledge of history. You know that many fancy fairy tales written by many Romila Thapars and Irfan Habibs are being taught as history in the institutions of our nation. These false histories are created to make the generations hate their culture and civilization and love that of the colonizers of the past. This novel talks about this. This is the story of how this ecosystem manipulates our history.
This book starts with a free-spirited girl named Lakshmi, who married his boyfriend Amir and converted to Islam, inspired by a leftist scholar professor NSN Shastri. He was renamed to Raziya Qureshi, against the oppose of his father, who denied to give his daughter to a staunch Islamist despite of being a Gandhian.
After their marriage, Lakshmi tasted the flavor of orthodox Islamism from her in laws, the Tablighi Jamatis and at last his beloved husband Amir, who pronounced talaq to her at last. But prof. Shastri settled their quarrel. After that, Amir and Raziya became busy in the govt-funded documentaries which were made to show cruel Islamic invaders in a modest light.
At that time Raziya received the news of the death of her father and came to her village Narasapura. She discovered many books based on the history of the advent of Islam in Bharat in his father’s bookshelf. She came to know that her father was researching about Islamic invaders after the love-marriage of her daughter to a Islamist. She started continuing his research and writing a novel on it. Then, the journey of exploration of the manipulation of history and correcting it with contemporary sources begins.
There is descriptions of a event, where a boy was turned to a eunuch forcefully, which gave me traumas for sometimes. So, I would not recommend this novel to feeble-hearted people. But for the sake of the future of our nation, one should read this and this great book should be passed through generations. One thing that the author missed is the fact that people like prof. Shastri receives fundings from anti-Indian sources indirectly.
To make our nation thrive, this ecosystem should be pushed to death. So, I think we should avoid the books, movies and everything that this eco-system makes or supports and our current govt should exhaust their sources of fundings completely. Brave film-makers like Vivek Agnihotri should make a movie based on this novel.