{"id":176,"date":"2019-08-25T01:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2019-08-25T01:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:47:34","slug":"book-review-the-golden-gate-by-vikram-seth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>( Disclaimer:<br \/>I am too amateur a poet;<br \/>To even attempt writing a sonnet..<br \/>So please pardon this flimsy attempt at rhyme;<br \/>No match to Seth\\&#8217;s verses- wonderful and sublime\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked up this book on a whim;<br \/>It ended up shattering many a literary paradigm..<br \/>An entire novel written in verse form!!<br \/>With prose so rich that it has an innate charm!<br \/>What begins as a story of restless and young;<br \/>Soon turns into tales of heart unsung\u2026.<br \/>As it\\&#8217;s characters meet, date and love,<br \/>Like they were meant to be hand in glove..<br \/>Alas fate throws many a surprise twist;<br \/>Leaving estranged couples longing for their tryst..<br \/>Into this narrative Seth magically weaves,<br \/>A gamut of complex emotions that the reader perceives..<br \/>But his genius lies in his wordplay,<br \/>A writing so evocative, it makes your heart sway..<br \/>Through his at-times-deft and at-times-languid prose,<br \/>He conveys effortlessly, his characters\\&#8217; many woes..<br \/>Seth spins his yarn with such masterful strokes,<br \/>Its hard to remain unaffected by feelings it invokes..<br \/>Be prepared to be swept off by this tide;<br \/>For the journey to this Golden gate is a delightful ride!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>(P.S.: A legit reason for this temporary inanity you see,<br>Is that Seth managed to wake the dormant poet in me)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image credit: www.amazon.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>( Disclaimer:I am too amateur a poet;To even attempt writing a sonnet..So please pardon this flimsy attempt at rhyme;No match to Seth\\&#8217;s verses- wonderful and sublime\u2026) I picked up this book on a whim;It ended up shattering many a literary paradigm..An entire novel written in verse form!!With prose so rich that it has an innate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[39,94,103],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-poetry","tag-bookreview","tag-thegoldengate","tag-vikramseth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}