[दीवान] An article on Nayi kahani in Economics Times

[rakesh at sarai.net]

Mitron muaf karen. Pichhle mail mein adhura lekha tha aur subject line
khali. Ek baar fir se bhej raha hun "Nayi kahani" par ET mein chhape lekh
ka mool jo mere mitra ne mujhe padhne bheja tha.

shukriya

rakesh




An Absent Future
Sorit


…He puts his hand over Nirmala…touches her smooth round  
shoulders…he is very familiar with this   feeling …slowly he moves his
hand over her body to feel her and tries to identify the  slow noise of her
breathings….. and suddenly he wakes her up, 'Nirmala…Niramala'..he
shouts in madness…. 'Do you know me? Do you know me Nirmala?,

Nirmala  surprised  looked at his face and then asked slowly 'What
happened' ?

And  he keeps on looking at her. His eyes keep searching for something in
her face…..

 

In one of his most famous story titled "Khoyee Hui Dishayen ( The lost 
directions)"

Kamaleswar , who demised a few days back, describes  the utter loneliness
of a person in the modern world   which ultimately makes a person  a 
complete stranger before himself. The above mentioned story is about a
person , Chander, who belongs to a small town and resides in Delhi for his
job. For obvious reasons   he  feels himself  a complete stranger in this
metropolitan . No one is known to him not he knows   anyone, from office to
Auto rickshaw driver and from colleagues  up to the next door neighbor and
at the end of the story he tries to recognize his wife and come to realize
that both of them are strangers to one another as well.

Kamaleshwar  was one of the finest writer in the contemporary Hindi
literature , the Nayi Kahani ( New Story) school   to be precise , a
movement in the Hindi story writing, initiated by the trio of Nirmal Verma,
Rajendra Yadav and  Mohan Rakesh.

 

Like any literature the main dilemma of the writer of this school also can
be seen in their positioning into the three sub strata of By the Human Of
the Human and   For The human .In other words it is the dilemma in between
the writer as the story teller , writer as  a character (if not the
protagonist) in the story and thirdly writer as a part of very that society