Falling Apart by Suchitra Bhattacharya translated by Rani Ray Srishm.
It is a story of two families based in Kolkata. These two families are related to each other and the author wants to subtly highlight the shift of value based system to superficial consumerist and money oriented way of life. One family is of a corrupt government official Chandan and his wife Anuradha, their son Raja and Chandan's mother Pratibha. Second family is that of Chandan's sister Lajwanti aka Laju married to Satyaki. Satyaki who is into politics and construction business is blatant to engage in earning easy money. Anuradha is proud of her husband Chandan and turns a blind eye to his unethical means of earning money. However exception is Laju who believes and sticks to her ideals and so is not happy with Satyaki and his bad money and company too and finally leaves him and wants their marriage to end. Raja, Chandan and Anuradha's son who undergoes tremendous pressure from his mother for achieving results in exams also becomes aware of incoming of easy money, his father's indulging into addiction and womanizing and ultimately suffers from hysteria and exhibits violent behaviour in the examination hall which results in his expulsion. It is after this that Anuradha realises that this is the pain that has come because of burying the ideals and that they have been intoxicated by ideas of achievements, money, status and so on.
Often in life we all somehow come across these situations...when we all think why seek truth when it's so easy to live a life of lies but we fail to understand that truth is relentless.
P.S.: I haven't like the way it is translated. It could have been done much better. And the proof reading should have been done better. Typos and spelling mistakes really are a turnoff!!!!
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