Book review: Kanthapura by Raja Rao

"This novel has myriad characters and its excruciating to keep up just with their names in the beginning. However, as the pace of novel sets in, one gets to see the whole village and its various moving parts. Different quarters, the definitive mindsets and all of them being bound by religious festivities. Upheaval happens when they break their cocoon and support the learned Moorthy on Gandhism, the wave, which had swept entire country. Book holds you through its narrative yet keeps throwing you off with its dawdling characters. One needs patience to read this book. "