Manchu Parvatam -- A Review

andariki vandamu !!

"dhavala VarNam too dhaga dhaga merusthu niSi kanya asthitvanni savaalu chesedi a manchu parvatam......
ushOdaya veLa bhanuni ki tellani chiru navvuto swagatam cheppedi a manchu parvatam.........
yuga yugaluga endaro kavulaku , kala karulaku spurthinichhinadi a manchu parvatam......
pranava nadaniki nilayamga , pranava swaroopuni natyaniki veedikaga praabhavanni santarinchukonnadi a manchu parvatam........"
( this is my own )

intaTi charitra kaligina a parvatam meeda unna manchu karigipOtE manaki gOcharinchEdi oka maamuulu parvatam........pratii manishi oka manchu parvatam vanti vaaDani........manchu ni kariginchaTaniki sUryarasmi saripoyinaTlu manishilo asalu manishini valiki teeyaTaaniki oka chinna sandarbham chaalunani cheppe yanDamuuri veerEndranaath rachana meeda oka chinna vyaakhyaanam..........

This is a recent addition to the number of books i have been going thru in the past few months. for a change this is a telugu (my mother tounge) book and it has to be said that it has all the right ingredients to make it worth reading. Of course, when u start readin a Endamuri Veerendranath novel all u expect is it to be Gud at the minimum.

Coming from the pen of one of the most prolific writers in telugu language Manchu parvatam is a story about four young girls Vijayanti, Bhargavi, Anuradha and Vaishali who at the dawn of their youth part each other in pursuit of a nice future(higher education to be exact). Before they leave the college they make a pact to meet in the same college after 15 years and discuss their experiences and the things they have learnt in course of time. The rest of the story is about how the lives of these four girls change over a span of fifteen years.

The storyline is nice with a gud narration style that has been a HallMark of Endamuri for quite sometime now. The Title MANCHU PARVATAM(Snow Clad mountain) suits the story well. For those of you who have gone through some of the other novels of EV like tulasidalam, Atade ame sanyam etc... u might find this a bit discomforting. For an author who has made his mark in the action domain EV has made a commendable job in trying to present a different theme. The story speaks of how every human in this world resembles a Snowy mountain.To put in the author's words
"Every one is a like a snowy mountian. Though it looks a lot peaceful and a lot beautiful on the outside, the mountains true nature and the unevenness it has got is revealed only when the ice melts. Similarly, Every person has an inner self which gets revealed at the appropriate time."
On the whole it can be said that this book is a gud one to read and Ofcourse thumbsup to EV.