Title Of Book: The Old Man & His God
Author: Sudha Murthy
Publisher: Penguin Books
Cost: Rs 150/-
Pages: 130
ISBN: 978-0-14-400101-9
About the book
Another slice-of-the-life “The Old Man and His God” by Sudha Murty. The book is far from a discourse, it is in fact a
collection of short stories, a third in a series. This is a book that can
change your entire perspective of looking at people. Sudha Murthy's sincere,
down-to-earth, practical writing style and the sheer simplicity of characters,
stories and incidents portrayed in this book are apparent in every single page,
every single line that she pens. The stories are crisp and have an inherent
lesson or moral, based on real incidences in Sudha Murthy's life and travels. .
As she goes about her work with the villagers, slumdwellers
and the common men and women of India Sudha Murty, writer, social worker and
teacher, listens to them and records what they have to say. Their accounts of
the struggles and hardships which they have at times overcome, and at other
times been overwhelmed by, are put together in this book. A blind old man in a
little Shiva temple offers the author shelter and peace in the midst of a storm
and emerges as the most generous, unselfish soul she has ever met. A little
stone bench under a banyan tree in a village in Karnataka is the perfect place
for travellers to rest and forget their burdens for a while as they chat with
the man sitting there patiently listening to them, a better counsellor than one
can find anywhere in the city.
The selflessness and selfishness, compassion and cruelty, knowledge and ignorance all are shown distinctly.
A must read for everyone.
