Snuffing Out The Moon by Osama Siddique - BOOK REVIEW

 

👉This is one of my favorite book so far. It is very uniquely woven piece of literature engaging varied readers by its representation of ideologies of historical insights and political instincts on the religious base of ambivalence and devotion as well.

This book comprises of these following accounts;

MOHENJODARO

THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

Circa 2084 BCE

👉This journey is of the vigilant boy named Prkaa who preferred to  traverse across the jungle astir, while all of this acted as a bounce shifting him away from the great megalopolis The City Of Bricks- Mohenjodaro lying on the banks of Indus, to his unabashed hut surrounded around by denizen of animals, flora, fauna and green beauty making him more valorous and happy hearted by each passing second.

Prkaa’s parents died a long time back leaving him with Motla whom they adopted as their younger child who without any gluttony and greed is currently serving the City of bricks at a reputed position of being an Overseer Of Baths making sure that all baths in respect to bodily or soulful purification as a part of festivities showcase appendages but the veil of clan of priests who consistently moulded their tactics to something impactful ritual blurred the vision of this magnificent realm and shaped the amorphous community and minds of many in a way that they became dominating and incontrovertible not only among the surviving people but the ruler in a way too.

Prkka, Motla and their caretaker after their parents death – The noble architecture Mahweel’s accoutring pre-planned happening against the disclosure of the priest Bhogi and his combatant community of priests which was directed to disclose all of them who were dealing with the city’s problems with their palsied and degenerative approaches by playing with the  beliefs of its citizens is what binds the end of this part while all of these harangues and feuds Prkka lost his love Sthui who is a priestess more than a dancer trapped in the personality of a reincarnated figurine deity of Bhogi and the city.

I love how language and conversations were socio-political, cultural yet comical enough in between the crestfallen reality of the realm of The Mohenjodaro. This part made me accustomed to a certain sense of ardent and curiosity which made me fall in love with it too. It was a very good read, that I even want to jump into a time machine and observe the journey on my own.

 

TAKSHASILLA

THE KINGDOM OF GANDHARA

Circa 455 CC

👉This part portrays some of the most beautiful conversations immersed in the vibes and enlightenment of Buddha  in one of the Buddha Monastery of Jaulian headed by two nominal leaders yet both vary in perception; first is Buddhamitra who was mainly accompanied by his friend Gautama, his discipline Devatideva and new initiate Ananda and the other leader was Mitradeva.

This monastery was on the hills nearby the city of Sirsukh and was managed by Sanghsarva- The Satrap of Takshasilla, who finds the Bhikkus parasites sucking funds and he accused Ananda of a claim which deepened the gaps in monastery and blurred the finesse and non-avaricing perception holded in regard to the monks so that they may face ignominy. On contrary Buddhamitra’s sudden change because the deadly visions directing to a devastation wrapped in the demise named as Army of Mara and his very admonition against this threat to the Sangha, Satrap and people of Hamlet as a part of his obligation has been taken into consideration and acknowledgement by very few and then him leaving his monastery with company of few and going towards Nalanda as well as an outrageous attack by then in the Sirsukh is what binds the end of this part.

 

THE SUBAH OF PUNJAB

THE MUGHAL EMPIRE

Circa 1620 CE

👉This account portrays many varied characters, initiating from the very known ‘Mughal Emperor Jahangir- The world seizer’ residing in Lahore whose grandeur and majestic sprinkle of wealth magnetised Sikander-e-Sani and Mirza Ferasta Beg who two were engrossed in petty crimes like stealing and sneaking, manipulating old and handicapped for selfish motives and so.

Soon they coincidentally met Parvez Dunyadar- The Mansubdar; who was enrouting to Lahore comfortably in caravans while submitting his unconstrained time to poetry writing. Both of them addressed themselves as royal spies in front of him which brought the shade of hospitality by the Mansubdar on their head and nextly they helped an absurd superstitious fellow Manmohan to not get thrown out by the Mansubdar out of the carrier which made Manmohan bounded towards both of them.

Journey of days destined to Lahore was completed, soon enough both men planned and decided to present Manmohan as a holy man and themselves as his attendants to please the emperor through using Ameena bi and other few underlings to dissolve the spiral of guards, cordons and other obstructions between their way ardently so to take irrelevant advantages and riches from their but all of it proves to be a fiasco, when Manhmohan undergoes through certain irrepressible bad situations of being febrile and more which made him escape the city and to unleash the further debacle on both of them and the ones they three fooled in their way directly or indirectly.

 

LAHORE, PUNJAB

PAKISTAN

Circa 2009 CE

👉This part of the book pulls up the strings in a way that three different yet interrelating accounts are carried without reflecting any trenchantly driven aspects.

-        Rafiya Begum, as an old maverick is set to find way through the helter-skelter of  legal complexities, which are sometimes created or sorted out by lawyers as such as Furqan Mayo, Shahgufta Parveen and others in respect to incarnate in a body where she can hold her rights in a way that are secured.

-        Bilal Hasan, one of the child of Junior Technician in a factory of Taxila, undergoes through many ups and downs, which dumps him in stories where ending of theirs lead to a prospect where he gets tagged by monikers and alias which includes; Billa-senti, Billameter and Billa-bantian wala.

-        This part portrays the account of Aminudeen Ameerzada who was gifted by a barrage of oaths and many mocks frequently and navigates things under General Sahib's unknowing of his end.

 

THE WATER CONGLOMERATE

(South Asian Corridor, Zone 15)

Rohtas Fort Encampment

latitude 32.9625` N, longitude 73.5889` E

Circa 2084 CE

  👉 This part showcases an era where Water Conglomerates dominates the world as well as many events and varied patterns of their varied outbreaks and jeopardizing elements pops up as dissidents in regard to persons and sometimes reflects their set ideologies as quixotic which can be observed in case of Prashanto Adam Farooqui who engages with 'Regressives' at hills through manipulative accident amidst of Water wars and rise of conglomerates and  conflicts, which even includes some unseen and mental dilemmas as of Naya and RRR at points .

This part was one of my favorite accounts in the whole book due to a reflection of dystopia as well as non rambling aspects of it and this is what I would like to disclose rather than to allude anyhow.

 

THE PUNJAB

BRITISH COLONIAL INDIA

Circa 1857 CE

👉This part submits a gentlemen who is a brave storyteller as well, in the time where British Raj is constantly trying to sow its seeds of congeries in India through ruling while simultaneously rebellion and defiance of British authority is too active which engages itself to serve its obedience in respect to Indian land, and one of such act of Mir sahib had laid him in a situation where he at last ends up escaping from his own city of Lucknow which had somewhat turned to a deception in respect to its routes and scenes which is a heart wrenching maze for him.

Other than that few accounts of other interrelated characters are too woven in the very tale, like; Fredric Cooper Esq.- the deputy commissioner of Amritsar, Sohan Singh and Prakash Singh - The Sikhs and few more which binds this whole account in a different scenario.

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