Bøker av Saket Suryesh

Every single line of news, left unattended becomes a part of dry statistics. Inside all those innocent and passive sentences are hidden stories of human values and emotions. The hymns of religious books contain a world of stories of immense values, if only one was sincere enough to look at them and tells us the struggles of those time. Centuries pass, the world changes but the questions confronting the mankind remain unchanged. Those questions about love, war, faith, humanity and parenthood do not change with changing times. These stories are written on varied subjects, each represents a single statistical data, one single truth, echoing through a thousand emotions. These are not journalistic pieces and do not vouch for the authenticity of stories behind a single verse in religious texts, a single headline in the newspaper. These stories use author's sensitivity and force of imagination to understand the hidden text behind headlines and verses which we come across every day. There are stories on Wars, on Love, on Human relationships, on Honor killing, Child Exploitation, Religion and Faith. They have stayed with me for years, almost hounding me to write them. Hope they will stay with the reader as long as they have stayed with me and will liberate their emotions as they have liberated mine.

This collection of contemporary satirical essays in Hindi is a way of author to look at the current socio-political scenario and an attempt to recreate the magic of Hindi satire once visible in the world of Sharad Joshi, Shrilal Shukl and Harishankar Parsai. The author takes a dig at the inconsistencies of the modern world, modern value systems and modern politics, waltzing around with fictional heroes from the past. You have characters from Rag Darbari wandering about, Emperor Ashok landing in Karnataka post elections and even legendry writer Sharad Joshi himself coming out of retirement to get his satire published. The attempt of author is to create an outrageously funny world without ever losing the grace, dignity and beauty of language, cautiously and carefully avoiding the smattering of Hinglish and cuss-words modern Indian satire and homour space is infamous for.