Title : The Last Evidence
Author : Suhas Inamdar
Genre : General Fiction ; Crime ; Social : Moral
Pages : 248
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Blurb
What is the shelf-life of our Karma? Is it possible to escape from the fruits of our Karma ever? Can a meticulously built character be marred by a sin committed in the past?
Welcome to The Last Evidence.
Ramgopal, a tourist guide in New Delhi, often engages in interesting conversations with his tourists, impressing them with his vast knowledge on various subjects. However, by sheer coincidence, all the tourist’s houses are burgled before they reach home after the tour.
As the investigation progresses, the needle of suspicion points towards Ramgopal. He flees the city and takes shelter in a remote ashram to avoid being caught. Gradually, he transforms the entire region and earns the trust and respect of the villagers.
When he is about to be rewarded by the local administration for his significant contribution to the all-round development of the village, the old investigation reaches his doorstep. Will the law catch up with him? Will he be exonerated? Is he really guilty?
Review
The Last Evidence by Suhas Inamdar is a very interesting story of Ramgopal, a tourist guide in New Delhi. The plot commences with Ramgopal taking on his tourists to all the famous tourist spots in The National Capital Territory of Delhi. The character of Ramgopal has been established as an unique and peculiar kind of personality from the very first chapter. The way his character was built meticulously and his vast knowledge in almost every topic, raised the curiosity and the expectations of the readers by multiple bounds.
Though the book has an interesting start and had a spectacular character to read about, first few pages of the book felt kind of repetitive and recurring. Absolutely it was crucial for the plot but it could’ve been written in a more engaging manner. The CBI investigation parts in the book was fast pacing and engrossing. The book seems to emphasized so much on the brilliancy of the burglary happened in the book every now and then. But the fact is, the efficiency, brilliancy and cleverness behind that burglary wasn’t that great or noteworthy. It just felt like another burglary and the over-exaggeration of it made the book fall short from the place it deserved to be.
The new life of Ramgopal was very absorbing. The way he helped transform the small village on the outskirts of Pune into something way better than what a normal government would struggle to achieve was ingenious. Ramgopal is someone who changes his identity in a jiffy but that didn’t create any confusion in understanding the plot or Ramgopal’s character. And that is something very difficult to achieve.
There were handful of side characters in the book but their characters weren’t given an opportunity to exhibit themselves at a deeper and closer look. Except for Ramgopal and Navin Verma, no other character were given any big importance. These sides characters could’ve been utilized because their lack of active participation was slightly robotic.
The intend and the mindset of Ramgopal was very noble and heartwarming. All his actions of the past has been justified and told briefly but the author could’ve inserted a bit more details about Ramgopal’s background and childhood. It could’ve given the readers a lot more insights about him, his childhood and why particularly he did the things he did. And the lies fabricated by Ramgopal initially felt relieving and good but as the book moved forward, his lies kind of become tiring which could’ve been rectified.
The plot-line was tremendous. Suhas Inamdar has a thing for finishing off his books savagely and he had done that in the book as well. On the whole it was a nice book with a good story line. The writing style was easy and fast pacing.
My Views
I enjoyed this book, obviously there were couple of shortcomings but that did not stop the book from delivery it’s message and the purpose of it’s existence. The writing style and narrative style was very simple which will be very suitable for beginners. I kind of had problem with the book travelling slightly towards spirituality and stuffs, it could’ve been reduced a bit.
I would recommend this book to all the beginners and to the people who wanted to read book in simple English. I hope this book would be a perfect match for you guys.
My Rating for this book would be 3.8 out of 5 stars
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Happy Reading Folks!!
~ Meenu
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