"Ghachar Ghochar" by Vivek Shanbhag. This book is published by Harper Perennial in 2016 and has 124 pages. This book is translated from Kannada to English by Srinath Perur.
This is the story of a family and how they cope up with the changes in monitory circumstances, from frugality to affluence.
What impacts them? Release of suppressed desires? Money? Prosperity? Entry of new member in the family?
It's a story of transition and inter relations of members from a family. How money changes the circumstances and affects their relationships with each other and how a new thought threatens to topple the apple cart.
The section about menace of ants is written deftly. It's hilarious, observant and real.
I tried to search the meaning of words Ghachar Ghochar online and drew blank. As I continued reading it became apparent that there is no such words in Kannada or English. It's a word coined by two characters that goes on to become a private family world. It roughly means entanglement.
Not a must read.
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