My Memoir

This book is basically a tale of a lost sister in Babar’s Family and of two great cities Fatehpur Sikhri and Florence.It talks really a lot about the customs and how Florence evolved through renaissance.I read it at a slower pace , because it was more of history A man calling himself “Mughal of Love” arrives at Akbars court and tells him that he is his uncle(Babar’s Sisters son) and thats how the tale goes.

Here goes my most liked and least liked lists about the book,

Rushdie has beautifully portrayed Akbar’s reign, his court , and the people there.I really enjoyed the way he narrated AbulFazl’s tactics.

Akbar , for once has been portrayed with his weakness as well his greatness.It made me wonder at his thirst for knowledge and at the same time his regret for being dyslexic.However i had little knowledge about the renaissance and I had no prior reading so I could not understand Florence’s history much:)

He has rightly explained how an woman wants to make her will win in a men’s world and how she succeeds using her power of enchantments

I was not happy with how he had ended.Or rather I did not get it fully How can Akbar raise someone from death? Is he that infatuated towards that enchantress to be so  imaginative of her rising from dead ?? No clue.

I also wonder why  Jodha has been portrayed as  a  lady who was created by Akbar out of pure imagination and she incfluenced him totally by living with him in his unreal world.It was funny when Akbar’s mother tried tried talking to Jodha imagining she was sitting in a chair next to her

I was not able to fully enjoy the humor as some part of it was dry and sarcastic. Hmm , so I had fun reading the book though i did not like it as Shalimar the Clown, it was worth spending some fifteen hours

Two months passed since I came here and well , I am getting used to Bangalore This is one of the very few cities of really high cost of living in India.Luxury invites everybody here and thats how the living cost has shooted up.The climate is awesome in the months of june and july.(I am yet to see the summer here ) , just as everybody else here would comment.It is also a city of varied food starting from south indian , north indian and upto chinese food.(except for the fact the hotels are pretty costly). I have made a visit to all nearby hotels and markets. I am basically not used to throwing money away for anything just because it gets sold in a bigger airconditioned shop , or it has a good brand name.

The sad part is I hardly meet people who spend money reasonably.nobody even bothers to analyse the worth , before paying for anything.May be its an illusion at all places that costlier things are better Well, a similar thought shared in a blog made me write this.Life for people in most of the cities is spending what they earn and the more they earn the lesser they care for resources and the more they take money for granted, as simple as that…

And I have learnt a bit of Kannada also I am learning to read and write now. And about the stay here I am happy to be here , meet new people and learn a  new language