Florentino Ariza has had 622 serious relationships (combo pack with sex) apart from numerous fleeting liaisons before he is able to embrace the only woman whom he loved with all his heart and soul. And that embrace happens “after a long and troubled love affair” that lasted 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days. Florentino is in his late 70s when he is able to behold, and hold as well, the very body of his beloved Fermina, who is just a few years younger than him. She now stands before him with her wrinkled shoulders, sagged breasts, and flabby skin that is as pale and cold as a frog’s. It is the culmination of a long, very long, wait as far as Florentino is concerned, the end of his passionate quest for his holy grail. “I’ve remained a virgin for you,” he says. All those 622 and more women whose details filled the 25 diaries that he kept writing with meticulous devotion have now vanished into thin air. They mean nothing now that he has reached where he longed to reach all his life. The
I was horrified by this comment of his. He has single handedly managed to give yoga a bad name.
ReplyDeletePrecisely. He is doing a terrible disservice to the real yoga, yogi and Hinduism itself.
DeleteI was horrified...I really was! But, honestly, I was never a fan of Baba Ramdev.
ReplyDeleteThinking people can't be his fans. He is more an entertainer and entrepreneur than a yogi.
DeleteI think he is foolish to cut heads of his probable customers, the current situation in country is like ' Andher Nagri Chaupat Raja'
ReplyDeleteHe could not even pass class 8. What can we expect of him?
DeleteI have felt the same about him Matheikal, I think it was the time when Anna Hazare was in news and this guy suddenly became politically famous. Don't know what the true intentions are anymore!!
ReplyDeleteFair is foul and foul is fair, as Shakespeare's witches said.
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