Review of Guruji's Ashram by Aravinda, Bangalore.
Guruji’s Ashram is packed with Love, Sex, Drama, Emotion and Violence. Reading it was like watching a blockbuster Bollywood movie.
India today is evolving socially.I think, Sunil Sinha through his protagonists is trying to give following message to readers :
1. Premarital relationship : Couple start living together with an idea of understanding each other before committing themselves to marriage. If, unfortunately, for some reason they break-up or couldn’t marry, then it is the woman, who suffers the most. It is even more unfortunate for woman if she realizes, after the breakup, that she is pregnant. In India, even today, single unmarried mother are looked down upon.
2. Message to teenagers: Girls today are educated and at 18, they know their rights. They say – “It is my life, I will lead it as I want it, I know what I am doing, people are judgmental etc.” She falls in love (she thinks it is love). What happens when her partner is simply taking advantage of her innocence? Eighteen itself is a small age to take decision of life and bear responsibility of a child. Think about 16. Our social reformists who are advocating reducing the age of consensual sex to 16 should think about it. Reducing the age of consensual sex is not going to protect women in any way, instead it will harm them.
3. Social Development: Majority of population of India feel that Reservation System in Higher education, Premier Educational Institutions and all job should be removed and in its place a better education system should be put in place for underprivileged, so that there would be no requirement of reservation system at all. (Students getting only 6% marks are getting admission in to IIT and good deserving meritorious students are left behind. What could be more shameful than this?
I think this book must be read by everyone.
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