SHANTARAM...

I would actually agree to all the words of exaggerated praise you find in the beginning and at the end of books for this particular novel “shantaram”..you read a few pages and you can find some analogies to be so true and justified that you can’t read ahead till the time what you read sinks in…and some particular excerpts..

“when the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare”

“and the choice you make between hating and forgiving can become the story of your life”

“but in the flinch and the bite of the chain, when it’s all you got, that freedom is a universe of possibility”

“but some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you”

“the worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well”