There is always an advantage if you know more languages. I am experiencing it. I was bored by reading Marathi and English books and didn't even try to choose a new one. But then I remembered that I have little collection of Hindi books. I choose 'Thumari', a short story book by Phanishwarnath Renu.
I haven't finished it but the book is superb. I first read the story 'Tisari Kasam (or Mare Gaye Gulfam)', which was adapted into a bollywood film. The story is very simple but the way Renu has presented it, is great. He has successfully used local language, folk songs in the story that it really appeals the reader.
Initially it was tough for me to read the language because it is not normal Hindi. But the stories are really interesting. I felt that they were happening around me, in some village, in train or may be in my home.
The characters portrayed by the author are simple or poor people. Usually we don't bother about their lives but in reality their life has many facets, which are unseen by sophisticated people like me. These stories are like a music with different characters representing tones which enhances it's beauty, so the name 'Thumari' (music type or Raaga ).
Now I want to read his first and the most famous novel ‘Maila Anchal’.
Oh! Sorry I forgotten to mention one more book I read was ‘Ek Ladaki ki Jindagi’ by Qurratulain Haider. Haider was just ahead of her time. I think she should have been alive now to write such bold stories.
The novel is based on a girl who chooses her life in her own way. But such people have no place in the society. I always dream that people who are strange in society’s view, should come together to have their own world. I would be one of them and few of my friends would definitely join the world.
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