red earth and pouring rain

just finished this first book by vikram chandra - what to say about this one - the narrative was good, therefore i kept on reading, even vowing at one time to finish it come what may - but overall it was a non-story, so to speak - it was part mythological, phantasmogical, cultural, weak parody, part history - all things rolled into one - a nothing kind of book - no story at all - not going anywhere - in short, 669 pages of crap.