Böcker av V S Khandekar

'SWAPNA ANI SATYA ' CONTAINS THE STORIES OF MARATHI LITERARY LEGEND V.S.KHANDEKAR . HE HAS WRITTEN THESE STORIES DURING 1930 TO 1970. SO THIS COLLECTION DESCRIBES HOW THE WRITING OF V.S.KHANDEKAR DEVELOPS DURING THESE YEARS. STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION ARE PERFECT COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIVE WRITING STYLE & STRONG FICTION. KHANDEKAR'S WRITING HAS STRONG ROOTS IN SOCIAL ETHOS . HE NICELY PORTRAITS REALITY IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF WRITING. SO THIS COLLECTION GIVES GREAT EXPERIENCE OF READING .

GHARATE IS A COLLECTION OF STORIES ESPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG BOYS BY ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN OF MARATHI NOVELISTS THE LATE V. S. KHANDEKAR. BOYS OF THIS TENDER AGE ARE VERY SENSITIVE. THEY HAVE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS NOT ONLY WITH THEIR FRIENDS, PARENTS AND SIBLINGS, THEIR SCHOOL, THEIR TEACHERS, BUT ALSO WITH THE NATURAL WORLD AROUND THEM THE TREES, THE FLOWERS, RIVERS, MOUNTAINS, BIRDS, THE SKY, AND THE STARS. THESE RELATIONSHIPS, THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND THE HAPPENINGS AROUND THEM MAKE AN IMPACT ON THEIR IMPRESSIONABLE MINDS. THESE SHAPE THEIR SENSIBILITIES, AND ALSO LEAD TO THE FORMATION OF THEIR BELIEF-SYSTEMS AS WELL AS RAISE INNUMERABLE QUESTIONS IN THEIR MINDS.IN THESE STORIES KHANDEKAR EXPLORES THE DELICATE WORLD OF THE CHILDS MIND AND PAINTS SUBTLE PICTURES IN HIS SIMPLE, UNSOPHISTICATED STYLE. HIS PEN IS EXTREMELY SENSITIVE AS IT UNRAVELS THE EMOTIONAL REALM OF CHILDREN, AND INSTILLS LASTING VALUES AND IDEALS. THIS COLLECTION ALSO DEVELOPS THE SENSIBILITIES NECESSARY TO SUCCESSFULLY STEER THE SMALL BOAT OF GOODNESS THROUGH THE VAST, CHOPPY WATERS OF THE WORLD.

THIS EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION OF STORIES COMPLETE BOTH THE TEENAGERS AND GROWNUPS TO INTROSPECT THEMSELVES. MANY PEOPLE HAVE SACRIFICED THEMSELVES FOR THE NOBLE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENCE. THEY SACRIFICED EVERYTHING, THEIR PERSONAL LIVES, THEIR AMBITIONS, THEIR HOPES IN THE OBLATION LIGHTED BY THE LEADERS LIKE GANDHI, NEHRU, SARDAR PATEL, LALA LAJPATRAY, TILAK ETC. THEY A DREAMT OF IDEAL SOCIELY. BUT DO THE NEXT GENERATION KNOW THIS, DO THEY REALISE THE VALUE OF SACRIFICE BY THE EARLIER GENERATION? IF THE GENERATION OF INDEPENDENT INDIA DECIDE TO HAVE THEIR OWN WAY THEN? IF THEY GIVE IMPORTANCE ONLY TO THEIR PERSONAL PROSPERITY AND SELFISHNESS... THEN? WILL THIS OBLATION GET EXTINGUISHED? OR WILL THE MORAL VALUES SHINE AS EVER? V. S. KHANDEKAR PRESENTS THESE QUESTIONS THROUGH HIS STORIES, GIVING US MODERATE DOSES OF HIGH MORAL VALUES ESSENTIAL FOR SMOOTH RUNNING OF THE SOCIETY.

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WRITE OFTEN ASK US, HOW DO YOU WRITE? FROM WHERE DO YOU GET THE IDEAS FOR WRITING? ARE THESE IDEAS TAKEN FROM ALL ABOUT YOU OR DO YOU CREATE THEM? IF YOU FIND THEM ALL AROUND YOU, THEN HOW COME WE DO NOT NOTICE THEM? I WOULD SAY THAT THE IDEAS ARE ALL AROUND US. EACH IDEA HAS THE IMMENSE POTENTIALITY OF EXPRESSIONS. BUT ALL OF THEM ARE NOT CONVERTED INTO ANY FORM OF LITERATURE. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN? I AS AN AUTHOR FEEL THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF THE LIMITATION AN AUTHOR HAS. NOT EVERY AUTHOR HAS THE CAPACITY TO METAMORPHASE EACH AND EVERY IDEA INTO A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY. SOMETIMES, SOME IDEA INVOKES SOME INNER STRENGTH AND AUTOMATICALLY THE MIND FILLS IN WITH WORDS, PHRASES, SENTENCES. SOME OF IT TAKES A FORM OF LITERATURE, SOME OF IT JUST DOES NOT. I HAVE BEEN A WRITER SINCE LAST 50 YEARS. FOR HALFACENTURY I HAVE BEEN SHARING MY IDEAS WITH YOU. I AM REALISING THAT MY ENERGY IS DRAWING BACK THESE DAYS, ONE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT THE BOON OF YOUTH FOREVER. THIS COLLECTION CONTAINS A FEW OF MY EXPERIENCES. THEY GIVE ME UTMOST PLEASURE. THEY WILL GIVE A ME A FEELING OF FULFILMENT IF YOU DERIVE PLEASURE, HAPPINESS, MORAL SUPPORT, RELIEF OR ENTERTAINMENT.

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF STORIES. THEY ALL HAVE BLOSSOMED WITH THE WRITER`S SKILL IN PICTURISING THE VARIOUS FORMS. AUTHOR HAS SUCCESSFULLY PENETRATED THE ADVERSE SURROUNDINGS, THE FINE TENSIONS IN THE RELATIONSHIPS, THE CHANGING VILLAGES, THE CONTRAST IN EVERYONE`S LIFE, THE VIRILITY, THE RURAL ADORNMENT, AND THE THROBBING MINDS. AT THE SAME TIME, THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ABSTEMIOUS IN BALANCING THE TRUE SOCIALIZATION AND THE ART.

THIS COLLECTION COMPRISES OF 75 METEORS BY KHANDEKAR. IT IS YET ANOTHER ADDITION TO BOOKS LIKE ‘KALIKA`, MRIGJALATIL KALYA AND SONERI SAVALYA. METEOR IS A VERY TREMULOUS FORM OF PROSE. THE MAIN ASPIRATION OF THE METEOR IS TO CREATE THE ATMOSPHERE WITH THE HELP OF VERY FEW WORDS, TO BEAUTIFULLY THE CREATION WITH PERFECT BUT MAGICAL WORDS AND TO MIX THOUGHTS AND FELLINGS INTO IT PERFECTLY, THUS INTRODUCING LIFE WITH ITS PRECIOUS VALUES. METEOR RESEMBLES COVERT INSINUATION. IT HAS TREMENDOUS INNER POWER. IT IS REFLECTED PERFECTLY WELL IN COVERT BUT FAULTLESS PRESENTATION. METEOR UNREVEALS THE SELFISHNESS BY UNMASKING THE WORLD AND SOCIETY AS WELL, MAKING IT APPEAR AS A PHILOSOPHICAL DOSE. KHANDEKAR`S FAN CLUB WILL WELCOME THIS BOOK FULL OF VIGOUR AND VITALITY, WHOLE HEARTEDLY AND WILLINGLY.

V.S.KHANDEKAR SET THE NEW FORMS IN MARATHI LITERARY CRITICISM . HIS 'RESHA AANI RANG' IS THE COLLECTION OF SUCH EIGHTEEN ARTICLES ON CRITICISM . HE BROADLY DESCRIBES THE NORMS OF GOOD LITERATURE. HE GIVES NEW PERSPECTIVES TO THE READERS . HIS ARTICLES ARE NOT ONLY ACADEMIC & INTELLECTUAL , BUT THEY ARE GOOD LITERARY PIECE ITSELF. KHANDEKAR WELCOMES , APPRECIATE THE NEW GENERATION IN WRITING , BUT DOESN'T FORGET THE BONDING WITH THE TRADITIONAL & CLASSICAL LITERATURE TOO.

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF 7 STORIES. IT WAS PUBLISHED AFTER A GAP OF 56 YEARS. MANY THOUGHT THAT KHANDEKAR HAS LOST HIS ABILITY TO WRITE. SOME CRITICIZED HIM. BUT HE WAS USED TO EVERYTHING. HE KNEW THE LIMITS OF ALL THE COMMENTATORS. HE WAS WRITING DURING THESE 56 YEARS BUT HE COULD NEVER COMPLETE IT. THROUGH HALF WRITTEN ARTICLES HE USED TO THINK ABOUT THE VALUES AND THEN USED TO STOP WRITING THE ARTICLE. HE SHIFTED TO KOLHAPUR DURING THIS PERIOD. WHILE IN KOLHAPUR HE MISSED THE SEASHORE AND THE HILLS AT SHIRODA. APART FROM THIS HE HAD STARTED WRITING SCRIPTS FOR MOVIES. THEN STARTED THE 2ND WORLD WAR WHICH KILLED THE HUMANITY. AFTER A PERIOD OF 5 YEARS HE WROTE HIS FIRST STORY "MAUNVRAT`. HE STARTED WRITING AGAIN BUT HE WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH THE NEW SOCIAL PATTERN. HE BELIEVED THAT SOCIALISM WILL BRING HAPPINESS BUT FOR THAT THE OLD PATTERN OF SOCIALISM SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED COMPLETELY. HE TRIED TO SEARCH FOR THE NEW AND VIRTUES WHICH WOULD PROVIDE HEALTHY ATMOSPHERE TO EVERYBODY. HE TRIED TO ATTEMPT THIS THROUGH HIS STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION.

YAYATI IS THE STORY OF THE LUST OF A KING BY THE SAME NAME, WHO APPEARS IN THE MAHABHARATA, ONE OF THE TWO EPICS OF INDIA. THOUGH MARRIED TO BEAUTIFUL DEVYANI, HE FOUND THE FEMALE SERVANT, SHARMISHTHA, ENTICING. HE HAD FIVE CHILDREN FROM THESE WOMEN BUT HIS DESIRE FOR PLEASURE REMAINED UNSATISFIED. DID HIS QUEST FOR THE CARNAL END WITH HIS EXCHANGING HIS OLD AGE WITH HIS SON'S YOUTH? HOW LONG DID HE ENJOY THE SENSUAL PLEASURES? YAYATI STANDS FOR ONE WHO IS NEVER SATISFIED WITH EARTHLY PLEASURES. THOUGH THE STORY OF THE ANCIENT TIMES CENTERS ONLY AROUND DISSOLUTE DESIRES OF AN INDIVIDUAL, ONE CAN DRAW PARALLEL EXAMPLES FROM THE PRESENT DAYS OF CONSUMERISM WHERE THE INSATIABILITY TO HAVE MORE PLEASURES CONTINUES.

EVERYBODY FEELS THAT HIS OR HER LIFE IS A BOOK WRITTEN IN A CODE LANGUAGE. WE CANNOT JUDGE OTHER BY HIS EXPERIENCES NOR CAN UNDERSTAND ANOTHER PERSON. FOR YEARS WE SIT TOGETHER IN THE SAME COMPANY, BUT HAVE WE EVER TOLD OUR GOODBAD EXPERIENCES TO EACH OTHER WITHOUT ANY HESITATION? ON THE CONTRARY, WE PREFER PINING INWARDLY, WE PREFER TO SUFFOCATE PRIVATELY, WE PREFER TO STUMBLE ALONE DURING THE JOURNEY... WHY DO NOT WE EXCHANGE OUR EXPERIENCES OPENLY AND TRULY? THIS RESULTS IN EVERY MAN STARTING HIS LIFE SAVAGELY. NO ONE IS BENEFITTED THOUGH MAN HAS PROGRESSED TREMENDOUSLY. WE TAKE A PRIDE IN SAYING THAT EXPERIENCE IS A GREAT TEACHER. IT EXAMINES FIRST AND TEACHES LATER. BUT, THIS CANNOT BE TRUE, BECAUSE WE KEEP OURSELVES AWAY FROM EXCHANGING OUR EXPERIENCES. IF WE GET HURT DURING THIS PROCESS THEN WE TEND TO HIDE IT AND WALK AWAY WITH AN ATTITUDE AS IF NOTHING HAS GONE WRONG... AND THEN THE SOCIETY....

THE STORIES IN THIS BOOK WERE WRITTEN 15-20 YEARS BACK BEFORE THEY WERE PUBLISHED. WHEN THE AUTHOR WENT THROUGH THEM BEFORE PUBLISHING HE WAS ASTONISHED WITH THEM. HIS MINDSEET WAS VERY MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THAT EARLIER. HE WANTED TO ALTER THE STORIES, BUT STOPPED HIMSELF FROM DOING SO. HE HAD A STRANGE MIXTURE OF FEELINGS. HE FELT THAT THOSE WERE HIS STORY BUT YET HE DIDN`T KNOW THEM. HE REALISED THAT TIME CHANGES A PERSON INSIDE-OUTSIDE. AT MOMENTS, HE THOUGHT THAT THE AUTHOR OF THE STORIES. I.E. HE HIMSELF THEN WAS A DIFFERENT PERSON FROM WHAT HE WAS NOW. HIS MINDSET HAD CHANGED COMPLETELY. HE FELT A PITY AS HE COULD NOT X-RAYED HIS MIND THEN AND NOW. HIS STYLE DURING HIS EARLY YEARS AS A STORY WRITER WAS SIMILAR TO RAM GANESH GADKARI. AT SOME PLACES, HIS STORIES EXAGERRATE A LOT. STILL THE AUTHOR DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES IN HIS STORIES AFTER 10 YEARS, BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT AFTER A LONG TIME THE CHANGES THAT TAKE PLACE INSIDE ONE`S MIND WILL HARM THE CORE OF THE STORY AND HE ALSO REALISED THAT FOR AN AUTHOR ALSO IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME FEELING WHICH PREVAILED HIS MIND WHILE ORIGINALLY WRITING THE STORY. THAT ILLUSION WHICH CREATES A STORY IS NOT A SLAVE. SO CORRECTING OR CHANGING THE STORY TO MAKE IT BETTER MIGHT DAMAGE IT ACTUALLY. HENCE, THE AUTHOR DID NOT CHANGE ANY OF THE STORIES WHILE PUBLISHING THEM 15-20 YEARS AFTER WRITING THEM.