5 Best Books by N S Ravi that will Take You on a Cultural Trip

1. Those Were the Days

‘Those Were the Days’ is a non-fiction book penned down by N. S. Ravi which takes the readers on the journey of new India after independence. It is a sort of memoir, the author writes letters to his children about how the days were when he was growing up in India. There are 30 chapters/letters in which the author has covered major fields and their stories since the independence. Ranging from Driving License to Tuition to Postal services and even Indian local brands. The book is not just a novel telling you about India in 1950s or 1960s. It’s much more than that. It’s the author’s journey of life. The author has seen India changing and he has narrated his vision about India to us.

2. Shalom Namaste

Shalom Namaste by Nurani S. Ravi is an interesting novel that takes stance on social and economic offenders of India that have fled the country to avoid persecution. The novel is slightly a political thriller with some other auxiliary themes such as adventure, espionage, drama, nationalism, etc. PMO, NSA, CIS, CSS — all prepare a list of 50 offenders — who have dented the reputation of the country by some or other way. They need to be traced and if possible wanted back in India.

3. Mahanbharat

This book ‘Mahabharata’ is essentially two stories told concurrently. On one hand, it is a Bhishma centered narrative of the traditional epic as a revenge story of women out to destroy an institution called the kingdom of Hastinapura which the old warrior has vowed to protect. As a corollary, the second story is an extrapolated imaginary revenge story of a modern-era woman. Badra plays the central character in this story. She plans a gradual decimation process of a plus seven-decade-old organisation called Congress party, perceived by her as having harmed India and interests of its people at the time of negotiating grant of independence with the British. If there is one significant difference between the two narratives it is that in the case of Bhishma it was a war to avoid partitioning the kingdom of Hastinapura. In badra’s case, it is her war as a result of the Partition of the country.

4. The Leader

N.S.Ravi has written on a topic which we have forgotten or never bothered to know. The Mumbai Textile Strike left most of the workers devastated. In this book the author has dealt with many potent questions. Why did it happen? Who were the perpetrators? Who were affected? Though it is a fictional story but the author has researched on this topic very well.

5. Marriage Made in Mumbai Local

Travelling by Mumbai local is in itself an adventure. ‘Marriage Made in Mumbai Local’ is an innocent adventure of Arun and Anita in their quest towards marriage — surprisingly in a moving local to overcome the horoscopic obstacle of being a Manglic. Saluting the ‘Organ Donor Day’ falling on August 13, the author narrates the story of Abhishek in ‘The First Organ Donor’. For the author this noble story could well be that of one of India’s first organ donor.