Feb 28, 2003 10:53 AM
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(Updated Mar 06, 2003 12:37 PM)
About the author Khushwant Singh was born in Punjab. He practiced law for a while and worked as a journalist for some time. he has been a member of the parliament and is currently a renowned author and one of India’s leading columnists. He has a number of fiction, non-fiction, humour and translatory works published to his credit.
The plot:
The book is all about Mohan Kumar and his endless sexual conquests. This man goes on to describe in length each of his affairs and portrays one ideology.life is lust, lust is life. This guy here is a Princeton return, starts an export business and earns his first million on his own. He is a typical boy next door. Foreign return boy…..parents flaunt his degrees and earnings in the matrimonial classifieds. …..receive hoards of responses……more than wiling parents to give away their daughters to him tagged with loads of cash and kind……he ties the knot to one such alliance…..gets two kids…..and after 18yrs…… well, that I leave to you!!!!! Hey, Just because I hated the book, I have no reason to spoil your chance with the climax. Sounds all right to you? Well, above is the skeleton of the storyline. The actual mass of the story consists of Mohan kumar’s libidinious desires from beginning to end. Starting with his first gal Jessica Browne in Princeton when he got deflowered, followed by yasmeen wanchoo a Pakistani politician 18 years older than him, his cold frigid wife sonu, his ever approving house floor cleaner Dhanno and his son’s nurse Mary. Sushantika a sri lankan diplomat, molly Gomes a masseuse and sumitra a teacher, these ladies turn up at his door reverting to his ad in the newspaper for a companion with no strings attached for a couple of weeks. Yes, at 48, divorced, he asks for commitment less companionship of women in the classifieds and successfully finds responses. This is the tale of Mohan kumar, narcissicistic, callous, opulent, brazen and the promiscuous, coquettish women in his life.
Reader discretion:
I have not liked the book coz it is based on fornications, one night stance and the basic idea of something so physical and just hormonal. The length which people traverse to satiate themselves and then the ways in which they justify it, is beyond my comprehension. Nevertheless someone with a different school of thought might like this book.
An essential word from the reviewer
please do not pick up company of women as your first Khushwant Singh book, regardless of whether you have read a couple of his short stories or columns and have relished his humour and sex appeal. You are sure to despise him prima facia and regard it sacrilege to even turn towards him the next time you are in a bookstore. His other works delhi and the train to Pakistan are said to be his masterpieces and must be attacked prior to the company of women The book goes on in minute detail each of his exploits, intricate, intimate details, vivid descriptions and assuredly makes you go eeks! I agree, a little sex appeal to a story is remarkable in any author but this book is too much. That is all it has. Start to end, just meaningless sex and in mohan kumar’s sense it was mohan kumar with anything remotely female. Ironically he was a winner socially. He was a millionaire, owned the membership of all prestigious clubs in Delhi and led a respectable life even when his marriage failed. With so many sexual conquests and exploits, one does not have to have an IQ of 140 to guess what would happen to him. In any case I leave the noose, loose.
Let me warn you to read it at your risk. I was perturbed at the choice of book for my weekend but continued reading as I thought there it probably might have an end that would make the previous hours worthwhile, but it was futile.
