Not being a spoiler, I want to tell you why I picked this book.
First, It's a cute, quick read. Just a 95 page book. Second, Despite its concise size, it delves into the matters of our lives through animals. Third and most important, it put me in front of a mirror...
You'll know when you read it but let me tell you, I, at many instances felt questioned indirectly for the way we live. The way we forgot what independence actually means.
Being Indians, knowing the stories of our heroes, freedom fighters, we have left behind the spirit with which the fight for independence was carried out. The thoughts and ideologies of those selfless people who laid their lives to see a free country, run by its own people.
A country where people would be entitled to their own produce, enjoy fruits of their labour, where they had a free will, where all would be equal, where no human would harm another, where no one was above or beneath anyone.
The fundamentals that were set during the freedom struggle seem to be unremembered with each generation. Of course we have prospered as a country collectively but we also come across people who work way harder than others and still struggle for basics.
One of the poems in my book Nav-Udit also revolves around the same.
This book has shook my conscience. Makes me ponder upon the reason for our silence. Asks me to look out for the source of resilience and the outcome of it.
It's going to give your inner self a voice, one that resonates with the current scenario, one that questions equality and one that remains prevalent but yet unheard.
It throws light on our true state of affairs and how some of us are blinded, some muzzled and the others handicapped from reminding ourselves and others of actual liberty.
All this meticulously and rightly put in the byline - "All animals are equal. But some animals are More Equal than Others"
CHEERS and GOD BLESS!
CHS
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