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Blind Faith
by Sagarika Ghose
Description:
The distraught daughter of an artist who committed suicide, Mia first meets Karna in London. Mesmerized by the charismatic young guru, she resolves to follow him to India, even if she must marry Vik, a suave corporate businessman, to do so. Once in India, Mia is drawn to Vik’s mother, Indi, an accomplished, inordinately attractive woman who rages unceasingly against her blindness, her beauty, and her clinging son. Troubled by Indi’s anguish, and by her own strange journey into duplicitous love, Mia realizes she must travel even furtherto the Kumb Mela religious pilgrimagefor a different perspective on her clouded and confused life. Brilliant, bold, heartfelt, and transcendent, Blind Faith is a provocative reexamination of the human condition, of reason that binds, hate that liberates, and love that strangles.
About The Author
Sagarika Ghose (born 8 November 1964) is an Indian journalist, news anchor and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times Of India, Outlook and The Indian Express. She was the deputy editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN. Ghose has won several awards in journalism and is the author of two novels. She resigned as deputy editor of CNN-IBN in July 2014 after the network was taken over by Reliance Industries. She is now consulting editor at The Times of IndiaGhose is the author of two novels, The Gin Drinkers published in 1998 and Blind Faith worldwide in 2004. The Gin Drinkers was also published in the Netherlands.
Skryf Review
The story is revolving around the character name Mia Bhagat, 28 yearsold London-based Bengali reeling from the inexplicable suicide of her “Marxist-turned-Mystic” father. Her job as a TV reporter introduces her to Karna, an initiate of the conservative, utopian Purification Journey Brotherhood (men should “fight the female ego”) who’s also the spitting image of a figure from her late father’s painting of the KumbhMela, or Ganga River Festival of the Pitcher. Mia falls for him hard, but her mother arranges a marriage to a kind cosmetics entrepreneur named Vik Ray, with whom Mia moves to New Delhi. There, she enters the whirlwind of her husband’s extravagant parties and secretly waits for Karna. A subplot follows the character arc of Vik’s brilliant, beautiful and blind mother, Indi, from her childhood in Delhi to retirement in Goa.The story revels the Mia’s journey in finding herself, her belief and her faith through the people she comes across after she marries Vik and moves to India. The other principle characters – Indi, Vik, Karna and Justin. The plots are skeptical, bold and connive well with the reader. A must read.