Description

Gently Falls: The Bakula is a realistic-fictional read from Sudha Murthy, a profound writer and the chairperson of Infosys Foundation. In this book, Sudha has boldly presented the agony of work ethics and modern lifestyle. The story is about a young couple Shrikant and Shrimati, and the changes they come across when Shrikant walks up the corporate ladder to the peak of success, while his married life slowly loses the charm and identity. With a magnificently straightway of writing, this book brings a simple but heart-touching story of a couple and the events that shake their life.
Shrikant has always been attracted towards Shrimati, his school companion, and after Shrimati also realizes having fallen in love with Shrikant, both get married. After Shrikant joining an IT company, he dedicates his entire focus to be successful in his career. Shrimati dilutes her own aspirations and stays back at home supporting Shrikant. Shrikant has turned into a successful corporate person while Shrimati has been with him in his journey. The life of both was fine until one-day Shrimati realizes while speaking to an old professor about what she had missed in her life. In the modern work style, she had lost her own identity, while just remaining the wife of a successful man.
This story of Shrimati’s confession to her inner emptiness and the extraordinary presentation of the dark side of corporate lifestyle is the main theme of the book. The readers would find the book to be a philosophical and beautiful depiction of a common topic and would be able to relate to many lives around. Penguin India published Gently Falls: The Bakula in 2008 in paperback.
About the Author:
Sudha Murty was born in 1950 in Shiggaon, north Karnataka. She did her MTech in computer science and is now the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she has written novels, technical books, travelogues, collections of short stories and non-fictional pieces, and several bestselling titles for children. Her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages. Sudha Murty is the recipient of the R.K. Narayan Award for Literature (2006), the Padma Shri (2006), the Attimabbe Award from the Government of Karnataka for excellence in Kannada literature (2011), and most recently, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Crossword Book Awards.
Books Author: Sudha Murty
Number Of Pages: 176
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Books Category: Literature & Fiction
Book Format: Paperback
Books_ISBN: 143103776
Other Feature 2: Weight: 152 grams
Other Feature 3: Size: 129 x 198 mm
Publication Date: February 14, 2008