About the book "Guru of love" written by Samrat Upadhyay that I have gone through recently, the reason I liked this book is that it is written by the Nepali writer in the context of Nepal. The book contains lots of details of Nepal, especially different places of Kathmandu and the details of Nepalese life style.
When I first heard the title of the book "Guru of love", I expected to get the emotions, success and power of love in it. But there is no emotion explained in any of these relations. All the relations exist in the story like the stones lying on the street. The stones lie on the street only because no one removes them from there. Relations in the story are not bind. Relation between Goma and Ram Chandra, Ram Chandra and Malati, Malati and Amrit, Nalini and her husband, all are hollow from inside.
Ram Chandra is a middle-class teacher, who used to take tuition for money and Malati is a poor lady, who wants to pass SLC to get good job for her daughter's future. It's the story of an extra marital affair of a teacher Ram Chandra with his mature student Malati. Probably that's the reason; the story is named as Guru of love. But does Ram Chandra really know any thing about love besides sex? Can he be called "Guru" of love which means teacher of love?
The relationship between Ram Chandra and Malati, around which the whole story moves, seems to be merely the mistake between two adults rather than love, as it does not make any difference in both of their lives. Neither Ram Chandra nor Malati is affected. Neither Ram Chandra nor Malati cared. The relationship between them ended like the journey of two passengers end after getting off from the bus.
I liked the concept, the story without a negative character. Goma was good with Malati and Ram Chandra even though she knew they had an affair, and Ram Chandra was good with both Goma and Malati, which is rare (when a man gets into an extra marital affair, he usually does not care about the first wife); Malati was good with Goma too. When Malati returned to Amrit, Amrit was good to both Malati and Ram Chandra (quite strange). So, probably the writer wants to teach the readers to be kind to everyone in every situation. I think that's the moral of the story.
When I first heard the title of the book "Guru of love", I expected to get the emotions, success and power of love in it. But there is no emotion explained in any of these relations. All the relations exist in the story like the stones lying on the street. The stones lie on the street only because no one removes them from there. Relations in the story are not bind. Relation between Goma and Ram Chandra, Ram Chandra and Malati, Malati and Amrit, Nalini and her husband, all are hollow from inside.
Ram Chandra is a middle-class teacher, who used to take tuition for money and Malati is a poor lady, who wants to pass SLC to get good job for her daughter's future. It's the story of an extra marital affair of a teacher Ram Chandra with his mature student Malati. Probably that's the reason; the story is named as Guru of love. But does Ram Chandra really know any thing about love besides sex? Can he be called "Guru" of love which means teacher of love?
The relationship between Ram Chandra and Malati, around which the whole story moves, seems to be merely the mistake between two adults rather than love, as it does not make any difference in both of their lives. Neither Ram Chandra nor Malati is affected. Neither Ram Chandra nor Malati cared. The relationship between them ended like the journey of two passengers end after getting off from the bus.
I liked the concept, the story without a negative character. Goma was good with Malati and Ram Chandra even though she knew they had an affair, and Ram Chandra was good with both Goma and Malati, which is rare (when a man gets into an extra marital affair, he usually does not care about the first wife); Malati was good with Goma too. When Malati returned to Amrit, Amrit was good to both Malati and Ram Chandra (quite strange). So, probably the writer wants to teach the readers to be kind to everyone in every situation. I think that's the moral of the story.
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Seems to be an interesting read. I must find it now. Thanks for sharing.
oh iv read samrats few books such as the royal ghosts of kathmandu . this one guru of love and theres another one. most of the time theres so many things going on at the same time and it makes us appreciate all the different people in kathmandu or nepal who end up at the same place through the different walks of life.
indeed a good read.
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