The wife takes a very negative view of this act, and speaks aloud about it.
The new wife of our unnamed male narrator is just such a thing when a woman comes to the new house to look for Chikkappa, the mother and sister of the family are cruel to her, and cast her out. The family are supposed to stick together as a single unit, with no dissenters in the ranks. There is a strict hierarchy within the family, too if one family member disagrees with Chikkappa, they are immediately thought badly of, no matter how founded their own beliefs are. It also renders him almost godlike in the eyes of society he is the one who saved them, and thus he deserves the best of everything. The uncle, Chikkappa, forms a spice company, managing to make large profits, which allow all of his family to live comfortably. Ghachar Ghochar presents a portrait of a family in Bangalore, whose dynamic shifts greatly as time goes on they move from relative poverty to wealth almost overnight. Ghachar Ghochar has been described as ‘… a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings – and consequences – of financial gain in contemporary India’, and has been highly praised by the likes of the BBC and the New Yorker. Its fluid transition from its original Kannada – an Indian language spoken by 38 million people – has been handled wonderfully by Srinath Perur. A compilation comprising the most incisive original and evocative voices to come out of Karnataka in the last two decades In Sirigannada the wealth that is Kannada eminent writer Vivek Shanbhag has brought together essays fiction and poetry that best represent the last two decades of literature in this language lush with meaning and nuanceSignificantly writers in Kannada have received the highest number of Jnanpith Awards and this compilation amply demonstrates why they been singled out time after time for that distinction The anthology includes established litterateurs like UR Ananthamurthy Girish Karnad and Chandrashekhar Kambar as well as newer writers such as SunandaKadame They have tackled a wide range of issues globalization caste displacement reality shows that reflect the dramatic social and economic changes that have taken place over the last twenty yearsSrigannada is an anthology that holds a mirror before the diverse cultures and many societies that exist within the contemporary Kannada world 310 pp.Vivek Shanbhag’s interestingly titled Ghachar Ghochar is the first of his eight books to be translated into English. IT IS A FABLE FOR MODERN LIVING THAT WILL RESONATE EVERYWHERE. TOLD IN CLEAR COMPELLING PROSE, AND UNDERSCORED BY WARMTH AND HUMOUR, GHACHAR GHOCHAR IS A CAPTIVATING AND UNSETTLING STORY ABOUT THE SHIFTING MEANING-AND CONSEQUENCES-OF FINANCIAL GAIN IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA. THE FAMILY'S WORLD BECOMES "GHACHAR GHOCHAR'-A NONSENSE PHRASE THAT, TO THE RESTLESS, UNNAMED NARRATOR OF THE BOOK, COMES TO MEAN SOMETHING ENTANGLED BEYOND REPAIR. IN THIS TRANSFORMATIVE NOVEL BY THE ACCLAIMED KANNADA WRITER VIVEK SHANBHAG, A FAMILY'S UNEXPECTED ASCENT FROM AN ANT-RIDDEN SHACK TO MIDDLE-CLASS LIVING SKILFULLY PEELS AWAY THE VENEER OF AN ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY. "WHEN AN IMPOVERISHED BUT CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY UNDERGOES AN ALMOST MIRACULOUS CHANGE IN FORTUNE, OLD AND TRUSTED CERTAINTIES ARE UNDERMINED: ALLEGIANCES AND DESIRES REALIGN, A MARRIAGE COLLAPSES, AND TENSIONS BUILD UNSTOPPABLY TOWARDS A DEVASTATING CONFLICT.
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