Hello my dear Hive friends, I hope you are all doing well. I'm doing great too. These days, because I have time off from work, I'm able to spend more time with my books. For the past three days, I've been reading Prem Shankar Chardana's novel,(SARKARI CHAY KE LIYE) I finished it last night. The main characters in this book are Atal and Madhavi.
Friends, India is a country where millions of students prepare for government jobs. Especially for middle-class people, getting a government job is nothing short of a miracle. Millions of students go to Kota, Mukherjee Nagar in Delhi, or other institutions to try their luck along with their hard work. These students spend years of their lives in small rooms there, with big dreams. Even then, some succeed, while others return home empty-handed, broken and defeated.
This novel is also about Atal, a student preparing for a government job, who leaves his village and goes to Kota to prepare for the exams. Atal's family is a middle-class family. Atal comes to Kota with his father's dreams and hopes. There, he becomes friends with Amish and Marsab. He also meets Abhishek and Madhavi at the coaching center. Atal and Madhavi fall in love with each other. Government jobs are positions with limited openings. To get one, you need both hard work and luck. Despite continuous efforts, Marsab doesn't get a government job. He returns home and, at his wife's urging, starts farming. Meanwhile, Amish, after repeated failures, ends his life, a very tragic event for the character in the novel. Without a good job, you have no value in society. That's why, because Atal couldn't get a government job, Madhavi's family arranges her marriage elsewhere, and the novel ends here.
Here are some lines from the book that I really liked:
Someone rightly said that a mother knows how to mend everything, from a broken button to broken confidence.
Sometimes a person slips from the ladder, and right after that, the roof is about to fall on them.
My opinion about the book:
This book should be read by everyone who has ever prepared for a government job or is currently preparing for one. A job is just a means of livelihood. A job can never be bigger than your life. If you are hardworking, you will find a way to make a living somewhere, even without a government job, and you will accomplish something good in your life.
Thank you very much for reading this far, friends.
