CHAOS IS A LADDER

This book is a series of conversations intermingled by historical facts between a grandfather who has lived through the struggles of India’s Independence and a 16-year-old boy infatuated with the series ‘Game of Thrones.’ They are different in many ways but they both love stories and they love to observe and reflect on what they see within and around themselves. In this book they observe and narrate the striking similarity between the real-life characters of Britain and India during Indias struggle for freedom and the characters of ‘Game of Thrones’ to create an exciting story. But they don’t stop there. They wonder if life must be so tough or is there a lighter way to live?  Its mesmerizing as they talk about life about death and a lot that happens in between these two events.  hey try to drop the conventional beliefs and in this book meet and question - Anger Greed Fear Courage Forgiveness Beliefs and Power Games. By the end of this book one realizes that we are not as different as we thought we are. We seem to be wanting the same things and making the same mistakes. We are left wondering if history ever changes or it just repeats itself in different forms. If we look at our  lives there seems to be more chaos than order. What is it then we question that we should be learning from our past and how?  One cannot help but wonder - so much history so many lessons yet here we are unable to understand life.