sAntanu bhattacharya turned his head on the 2023 debut novel ONE SMALL VOICE. This is intertwined with personal fallouts in view of burning Muslim men in a panoramic survey on how modern Indian society is changing. As a dominant ideology. It marks him as a novelist who can convey the biggest story with the most accurate and unforgettable details.
His follow -up, Deviants, is even more ambitious. It tracks how India’s attitude toward homosexuality has changed in the past 50 years by following the life of three gay men of the same family. His uncle was called Mambro, which grew up in the mid -1990s. Sukmar, who met in 1977, his great fugitive (or Grand Mum, Mambro’s uncle), is studying Corkata’s commercial properly.
Vivan’s story is written as if he lived in the Silicon Plateau in Bengalur, India’s high -tech center. Rather than feeling a gimmick, this gives his voice attractive and cheerful. , Skorio sexual, Baikurius.
He is prompted to record his thoughts on his NE, who is aware of himself and wants to help him navigate his life as a gay. It is a kind of support that Mambro was not easily available from Skmar 30 years ago. In particular, Skumar said, “Because he can’t fit in the world, he seems to be just outside the framework where everyone lives.”
The story of Sukmar, spoken by a third party, has the most influence. He can’t fully express one of his love or engraving as a sculptor, so he lives his life with a low watts, even if he finds sexual liberation by encountering a pass. It was a story of everyone like him, a long heritage with a hurt heart, a destroyed dream, and duplicate life. It was great that men like them, they didn’t want anything. “
The country where Vivaan has been able to go to school dances with his boyfriend has changed the country sufficiently.
Long -term lovers of Sukumar and MAMBRO are recognized only as X and Y, respectively. But this is the point of Batachariya. The relationship with the life under the Criminal Code 377, which is the inheritance of the British colonial era, which is a notorious section of the criminal law, was a shadow that was not completely painted. And Indian legal framework is not yet one of the true equality. Looking at the Supreme Court’s judgment on legalization of same -sex marriage, Vivan is sour. 。
But the country has changed enough to make Vivan go to school dance with his boyfriend. The passive principal was ultimately persuaded, saying, “I spread the flag of pride, swung around as if she had come to see the Indian Pakistan cricket game, it was the last over, and India would surely win. Can do. “
The style of BHATTACHARYA is soft, lyrical and difficult to stop. When I wrote about Y, Mambro stated: At the moment, I feel the indomitable effect of imagining the beauty with a mysterious violence so that small birds can collect all oxygen and sing songs for a short time. “
More notable is how to use the language itself as a motif that means social and personal changes. When Sukmar was challenged by his mother about his relationship with X, he said, “Every word he couldn’t tell her, all the emotions they did not have in the vocabulary, the courage they speak loudly. Everything that I didn’t, I was circulating his vein, making it difficult to breathe. “
For MAMBRO, he discovered a journal that keeps his relationship with Y as a trigger exile by his university friend, carefully and away from him. At the end of his story, he finds some solutions when a young Vivan begins to rip pages from his diary and begins to become a paper boat. These words are no longer of him. He is ready to write again. On the other hand, Vivan, a teenager, can benefit from the rich sense of expression. “If you are participating in those apps and knowing how people speak, those who care about entering a complete sentence without grammatical errors will make you in love with you. I know they are enough.
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The novel has one wrong memo when Vivan responds to his relationship with AI bot and responds to his relationship. A digital mirror built by harvesting data and converting it into a simulation of desire. I felt that Vivaan was not true to be satisfied with this avatar. For everything he lives online online, his longing for his obvious human connection is stronger.
This is a minor complaint. In the deviation, Batachariya wrote a persuasive and concise epic. There, politics, love, and freedom are balanced, and the cruelty of the past blends into a novel that falls into a ray. Cost.
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