Ravan and Eddie- Kiran Nagarkar

Nagarkar writes always about people. Ideas, morals, ideologies and political agendas lurk in the wings ready to dart out and speak their piece when required.

It is a searing tale told with wit, pace and black humor.

This is based against the backdrop of Bombay, in the chawls. Nagarkar manages to bring out the dreary lives of those people who live there and how every day is to them a new fight for survival. The fact that he uses 2 religions as the plot of his book is interesting- telling us that it is not only one kind of people who suffer in these conditions.

His writing is easy, and unlike several of the women. The style is distinctly original, and most of all, it has a great sense of humour. (I feel like many of the women authors work too hard to make a social point

There is no privacy whatsoever in the chawls and he says humorously that people have given up trying to hide things and keep the doors open while they have private discussions because everyone will find out anyway.

The book’s plot is not all humourous but is lightened by Nagarkar’s style of writing. He manages to keep a pace in the book with black humour, wit and satire.

Some topics in this essay:
Ravan Eddie, Violet Eddie’s, Catholic Growing, Ravan Eddie-, husband’s mistress, ravan’s mother,