ALCHEMY OF DESIRE

Alchemy of desire- a book I picked up out of curiosity to see what the master of sting operations has to offer to us, and guess what, I was not at all disappointed. The book was well paced and lives upto its name. It gives the feel of a sting operation inside the protagonist’s bedroom and his sex life. Prem, Karm, Arth and Satya all have a central theme of Kaam. The book does have its moments… but mostly it seems to be an extension of “booker’s award” style of writing (I would reserve my comments on this one)…. Some where in our daily middle class lives, profanity has become an artistic expression… my ‘vocabulary’ has been more enhanced by reading and watching movies in the last few years, than it was living and studying in an engineering college in faridabad… and those who know how it is can understand what I mean.

The element of desire is provided by a hindu muslim marriage… being a ‘victim’ of a similar relationship I watch them enviously making a beautiful life of their own. I wish to enjoy that relationship but I know that’s a utopian world….

The book’s starting is a clincher… it starts with perhaps the most profound statements and goes on to prove it with laws of physics… perhaps this is there first meaningful demonstration for me… but again I think sex is a bit over-rated…. May be not… but to build a whole relationship on it still seems a little far fetched…

Final Verdict: All in all not a path breaking stuff but still you will enjoy it… mainly for the erotic lines and fast paced story line… not bad for taking a break….