Aamchidilli
आमची दिल्ली
Delhi's first WhatsApp magazine
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Book Review
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Ascendance
By
Sadhna Shanker
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Add years to your life, order custom made babies to the 'creation centre', haven't replaced ageing parts of your body? Do that...
That's the world centuries years from hence. Earth has become inhabitable and humans have migrated to a distant planet
And yes, there's something more..men and women have separated for good...building an impregnable fence between them the new planet...
Sadhana Shanker in her sci-fi takes the reader on a journey in future.
To know more one has to read 'Ascendance'. Shanker has already written four books, this one is her first science fiction.
Can men-women confrontation lead to total disconnect, separation?
On gender, Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker says after the seventies, impetus has been feminism, the political, social, academic and literary movement that has steadily been creating space and dignity for women. A section of the feminists-labeled 'gender feminists'- have, however, gone hammer and tongs against the evolutionary concept of different hard-wiring for males and females. They insist that environment alone has created man and woman orientations for the unbridled exploitation of women by men. They demand fifty-fifty distribution of jobs and to hell with mismatches...
'Ascendance' provokes the reader to ponder on the possibilities that distant future holds.
It takes time for a reader to famiarise with names of people...then one can't expect people's names to remain the same even in the next decade.
Wanting to transport her readers into the distant future, Shanker ensures that the journey in time is not smooth. Once you connect with the people and the plot, the book, however, becomes thoroughly interesting.
(A PhD in Economics, Sadhna Shanker IRS, is a civil servant, a TV anchor and host . She is married to Dr. Dnyaneshwar Mulay, IFS, a well-known author himself. Published by Rupa Publications, pages 317. Rs.395.)
आमची दिल्ली
Delhi's first WhatsApp magazine
***
Book Review
***
Ascendance
By
Sadhna Shanker
***
Add years to your life, order custom made babies to the 'creation centre', haven't replaced ageing parts of your body? Do that...
That's the world centuries years from hence. Earth has become inhabitable and humans have migrated to a distant planet
And yes, there's something more..men and women have separated for good...building an impregnable fence between them the new planet...
Sadhana Shanker in her sci-fi takes the reader on a journey in future.
To know more one has to read 'Ascendance'. Shanker has already written four books, this one is her first science fiction.
Can men-women confrontation lead to total disconnect, separation?
On gender, Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker says after the seventies, impetus has been feminism, the political, social, academic and literary movement that has steadily been creating space and dignity for women. A section of the feminists-labeled 'gender feminists'- have, however, gone hammer and tongs against the evolutionary concept of different hard-wiring for males and females. They insist that environment alone has created man and woman orientations for the unbridled exploitation of women by men. They demand fifty-fifty distribution of jobs and to hell with mismatches...
'Ascendance' provokes the reader to ponder on the possibilities that distant future holds.
It takes time for a reader to famiarise with names of people...then one can't expect people's names to remain the same even in the next decade.
Wanting to transport her readers into the distant future, Shanker ensures that the journey in time is not smooth. Once you connect with the people and the plot, the book, however, becomes thoroughly interesting.
(A PhD in Economics, Sadhna Shanker IRS, is a civil servant, a TV anchor and host . She is married to Dr. Dnyaneshwar Mulay, IFS, a well-known author himself. Published by Rupa Publications, pages 317. Rs.395.)
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