Ghachar Ghochar Waited for Me to Grow Up

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Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag

HarperCollins Publishers India
2015
124 pages
ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178

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Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost like a mirror covered in a thin layer of dust, until you