Thinking Women - Book review


This is a book I found on the shelves of my sister at Montreux. I checked on the other books by Shashank Lele but couldn't find any. 
The book title is a common one and the cover page attracted me to proceed reading. It is published by Chhandita Prakasani, Calcutta  in the year 1999.

The geography shifts from Shantiniketan to kyoto, and discribes the life of Risako, a Japanese woman who is married to the protagonist observing the existential realty of a life which is surrounded by events and characters very similar to themselves. This compels them to reflect on to there own contradictions which the author extends to the crisis of a section of the society as himself. He analyses candidly about personal events and sexual relationships with their pretentions , projection it as an important and obsessive compulsion among many people engaged with humanities.
His concluding chapter brings forth the objective of the story with implications to project men as impulsive character and himselve as obsessed with morbidity and death. On the other hand, he impart the image of greatly sensitive nature of the feminine image which seems to envelope and tango around their man's life. Thinking Women appears to be the persistent sensitivity with which the femme agenda is persued and exhausted at the same time.

The writing is simple and the progress of the story is an easy read. It is short and movement along the chapters is easy. 
I liked to read the last chapter a second time and contemplate of the choice of situational propositions.

Pratyush Chaudhuri 

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