Ocean of Churn: A Sea of Knowledge
Book review of The Ocean of Churn by Sanjay Sanyal I read the Ocean of Churn half asleep, leaning on my bean bag, my only resort to passing the time away. But as I read past the foreword and acknowledgements, my slumber ebbed away, and I sunk deeper into the story of how a prince from Southern India was smuggled by a coup of palace brahmans, and shipped over to Malaysia in Eastern Asia, only for him to come back at the nick of time and reclaim what’s rightfully his. Now this could be a good screenplay for a commercial Baahubali rip-off, but as the writer delves into the socio-economic implications of that little transaction and how it affected the churn of events, I began to see the consequences of a butterfly effect of its own. I would say be warned for spoilers, but all of this has already happened before. It’s fascinating to look at the biggest picture, like turning the dial of time to when mankind was just a crawling mess of hunter-gatherers in Africa, and a...