Thomas Gray had written in his poem, "Elegy Written in a country churchyard,
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learned to stray.” where he talks about the life of rustic people in comparison to city people.
"The Quest of the Sparrows: Explore the joy of freedom" by Kartik Sharma and Ravi "Nirmal" Sharma is a modern aftereffect of the city life making people go back to the simplistic ways of rustic people. Through the metaphor of a sparrow which is repeated off and on throughout the novel, the authors may have written a fictional plotline but the realistic applicability can not be ignored. The explore the questions of how present day human lives have changed, how much their relationships have changed, how materialistic they all have become and the fact that not all gurujis or swamijis are reliable people to bring anyone closer to themselves. In the madness of city life and the rat race to earn and get better than others, humans have ended up degrading themselves and hence they feel hollow inside. The protagonist of the story also faces the same circumstances and hence resolves to find himself by coming back to his roots and hence he understands himself and the mistakes he did in his life so far and also finds out how he can make himself better. This book is a must read for everyone as the message of the book is universal to all.
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