Gachhar Gochhar
Gachhar Gochhar Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Author: Vivek Shanbhag This book has been on my to read list for ever. I even bought it once but lost it in the pocket of my flight seat even before I could start. I finally get to read it when I got a free pdf copy in a Bengaluru book club. Coincidently the town being the setting of the book and the native of the author. There is nothing better than reading about the place you start living in. Thank god for the translations! Basically, all my attempts to get at it despite it being a snip snap 100 odd page book have been all Gachhar Gochhar, but there is always a meaning to everything that happens. Just like this book! Gachhar Gochhar as a term being refered in context of a complete mess. The book talks about how new money corrupts. Especially when it comes too much and too soon and by wrong means. Only you understand what it was to be a ‘Have not’ and then ‘Have it’ all’. A part of you can’t accept that you deserve it but giving up is not an opti