What to expect from Samrat Upadhyay's "The Guru of Love"? #THEGURUOFLOVE
-Ghanashyam Khadka
If you have recently seen my twitter timeline, you must have seen that I was reading Samrat Upadhyay's "The Guru of Love". The book was published in 2003 by Rupa, New Delhi. I must have bought this book way back in 2008-09 and I have just finished reading it.
It is a small blog about the book. I am not sure how much publicity this book could garner at the time it was released. However, I don't think it was anyway, required for this tasteless book. Samrat became well known author for us after his "The Arresting God in Kathmandu" - the collection of short stories. However, thereafter, he has barely managed to bring out any meaningful creation.
I had lowered down my expectations before I started reading "The Guru of Love" and it really helped me. The story is very simple and in no way, even ordinary. The monotonous and boring details and events move in the book in their own pace and leaves the readers unimpressed.
The main protagonist is Mr. Ramchandra - a mathematics teacher and private tutor of SLC students. The story hovers around 1989-90 AD, 2046 BS when Nepal was going through revolution to throw old Panchayat Regime and was at the verge of welcoming bahudaliya prajatantra (multi-party democracy in Nepal). He is poor but married with a girl from a rich elite family of Nepal. His Parents-in-laws were well connected with Rana, Panchayat regime of Nepal, and with the royal families. Ramchandra doesn't get warm welcome from his rich Sasurali which is usual in Nepali Society.
He lives in a crammed flat in Kathmandu with his wife - Goma and two children - Sanu and Rakesh. They have the usual and ordinary life like how many poor and lower middle class people live in Nepal. And there enters a girl/woman Malati, an unmarried mother whose lover made her pregnant and got disappeared.
Ramachandra (RC) and his student Malati start getting closer and Ramchandra starts banging her. and tells this one day, to his wife Goma. and again the usual family issues. Goma agrees to sleep in children's room and let Malati and RC sleep together. Now, they (RC and Malati) fuck as if they are husband and wife. Finally, the HERO returns - Ranjit -paramour of Malati, who made Malati pregnant and vanished earlier, comes back and agrees to take Malati and child Rachana. and they live happily? thereafter. This is the motamoti story in "The Guru of Love"
In my opinion, from any literary point of view, the book is barely average. It did not disappoint me as I had no expectation from this book. I knew that Samrat would insert few fucking scenes and they are exactly there scattered in the book. Sometimes, RC fucks his wife, Goma and many times, his young lover student. The insertion of sex scenes too frequently in any story/plot is hallmark literary quality of Samrat Upadhyay. The same can be said about Manju Thapa.
That's all about "The Guru of Love". I rate it 1/5.
-Ghanashyam Khadka
If you have recently seen my twitter timeline, you must have seen that I was reading Samrat Upadhyay's "The Guru of Love". The book was published in 2003 by Rupa, New Delhi. I must have bought this book way back in 2008-09 and I have just finished reading it.
It is a small blog about the book. I am not sure how much publicity this book could garner at the time it was released. However, I don't think it was anyway, required for this tasteless book. Samrat became well known author for us after his "The Arresting God in Kathmandu" - the collection of short stories. However, thereafter, he has barely managed to bring out any meaningful creation.
I had lowered down my expectations before I started reading "The Guru of Love" and it really helped me. The story is very simple and in no way, even ordinary. The monotonous and boring details and events move in the book in their own pace and leaves the readers unimpressed.
The main protagonist is Mr. Ramchandra - a mathematics teacher and private tutor of SLC students. The story hovers around 1989-90 AD, 2046 BS when Nepal was going through revolution to throw old Panchayat Regime and was at the verge of welcoming bahudaliya prajatantra (multi-party democracy in Nepal). He is poor but married with a girl from a rich elite family of Nepal. His Parents-in-laws were well connected with Rana, Panchayat regime of Nepal, and with the royal families. Ramchandra doesn't get warm welcome from his rich Sasurali which is usual in Nepali Society.
He lives in a crammed flat in Kathmandu with his wife - Goma and two children - Sanu and Rakesh. They have the usual and ordinary life like how many poor and lower middle class people live in Nepal. And there enters a girl/woman Malati, an unmarried mother whose lover made her pregnant and got disappeared.
Ramachandra (RC) and his student Malati start getting closer and Ramchandra starts banging her. and tells this one day, to his wife Goma. and again the usual family issues. Goma agrees to sleep in children's room and let Malati and RC sleep together. Now, they (RC and Malati) fuck as if they are husband and wife. Finally, the HERO returns - Ranjit -paramour of Malati, who made Malati pregnant and vanished earlier, comes back and agrees to take Malati and child Rachana. and they live happily? thereafter. This is the motamoti story in "The Guru of Love"
In my opinion, from any literary point of view, the book is barely average. It did not disappoint me as I had no expectation from this book. I knew that Samrat would insert few fucking scenes and they are exactly there scattered in the book. Sometimes, RC fucks his wife, Goma and many times, his young lover student. The insertion of sex scenes too frequently in any story/plot is hallmark literary quality of Samrat Upadhyay. The same can be said about Manju Thapa.
That's all about "The Guru of Love". I rate it 1/5.
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