Author: Amar B. Singh
The
spread of the pandemic worldwide has caused chaos and things as we know have
ceased to exist. Everyone is looking at things with a new perspective.
Maya-Lifting the Veil by Amar B. Singh is an attempt to look at the situation by drawing parallels to the Mahabharata. The poem begins when Arjuna, a face in the crowd of the mass exodus of labour moving towards their home, carrying his son on his shoulder stumbles and he falls. The scene moves on to Kurukshetra where he realizes that his son has a fever and is positive for the infection with the virus. As the son passes away, the father decides to kill himself when the almighty decides to give him a sermon.
The book
draws parallel with the Mahabharata at many levels. The scene is similar to
that when Krishna narrates the Bhagavad Geeta to Arjun during the battle of
Kurukshetra when he loses all hope. The book is written like a poem with a
similar tone. The concepts are explained in a good manner and the way Amar has
taken the ancient sayings and adapted them to the present time and presented is
good. The way some subtle messages about topics like being sustainable have
been delivered are good as well. The book has a couple of grammatical issues,
but the author has put a disclaimer in the beginning stating the same, however
I feel that at least 1 round of editing wouldn’t have damaged the book. The
concept if drawing parallels is worth mentioning, but the same thing in a prose
manner would have been better as the poetry was not able to invoke the required
emotions in me.
Overall, a decent book and scores a 3.13/5 from me.
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