“Main Munna Hu” is an elixir of hope.... Book Review by Shikha Sharma
“Main Munna Hu” is an elixir of hope and an incitement to the shriveled and muted voices; an intense message to the survivors that the shame is on the aggressor and not on them. The desire to molest a child is already ‘there’ even before the child appears! The depiction of the trauma that a child has to go through seemed real but the spirit to survive and the denial will to surrender against the vandalized and assaulted dignity is the epitome of the novel. The mood and the tone of the novel is empathetic and optimistic respectively. Narrative of the “Mystical Vrindavan” and the “bucolic landscape of Nepal and Jharkhand” adds to a galore of sanguinity in the novel. Character coercion is avoided and the characters are built in the realm of necessity and avoiding the unnecessary nuances of character multitudes. E