Fero.

- Window Seat-Udayan Thakkar

- 'But do you know who my camel was at that time? Did you forget that I quenched my thirst by breaking your lid? ' In the journey, the head of a sleeping woman falls on the shoulder of the hero ....

Literary writer Radheshyam Sharma passed away a few days ago. Let's go through their short story 'Faro'.

The timeline of the work is one day. Not a single character is named, perhaps with the intention that the story applies to everyone. The protagonist turns his bicycle into a pole, where the cow stands. This is followed by surprising sentences:

'The cow is the earth ... the sun is the bud, the pol is standing outside waiting ... where is the tested? - The examinee will be grumpy or reading the paper. '

The reference here is to Bhagavad-gita. Nothing relevant to this mythical occasion goes back and forth, so these quoted verses remain mere adornment. The beginning of the story, however, is symbolic:

'The push came. The car pulled up. At that moment, I felt a train moving from one breast to the other ... '

Apparently this is a description of the beginning of rail travel. But the author's allusion is to a life journey that begins with the push of childbirth. "God turns us from birth to death as a mother turns a baby from one breast to another," is Tagore's famous line. The protagonist has gone to the Sun Temple - the planets revolve around the sun.

Here comes the flashback: the protagonist rushes out of the house as the train is about to catch up. His disgust towards his wife is often felt. See the following sentences:

'Such an ugly woman ...'

'Salla's nose is sniffing at the end.'

'Why get rid of this force?'

The husband and wife have gone out to set foot in the Sun Temple as their son cannot speak even though he is five years old.

The protagonist is constantly felt to be sexually obsessed. On the way to the station, he says about opening the door of the house, 'The door has two bones. One goes easily ... The second snort is called a snort. (Is there any special sensation of arousal available if we speak like this on the occasion of intercourse at night?) See the description of the locks: The protagonist's wife Mahenu says, 'You have been looking at the fence for six months. It's getting dark and the books are gone. ' The wife scolds the protagonist who drinks a lot of water during the train journey, 'Sometimes I am mad! You want to drink more than a boy. You must have died in the middle of the desert. ' The protagonist's answer: 'But do you know who my camel was at that time? Did you forget that I quenched my thirst by breaking your lid? ' In the journey, the head of a sleeping woman falls on the shoulder of the protagonist, the protagonist feels that the body of that woman is like a huge house. 'How many doors will there be in this luxurious house? .. but there will be nothing like privacy? Yes, that's why there were so many basements under that house ..? ' The wife complains that you never talked to me on the trip. Nayak's defense: 'Should I speak on the subject?' Then he thinks, 'It was good that the subject was not conscious of the other meaning of the word.' Sexuality is not a sin, we can consider it a characteristic. Looking at the disgust towards his wife, we think that the protagonist is obsessed with insatiable sex life.

The protagonist is shown his wife's oasis. It is up to the wife to decide which compartment to take in the train. When the protagonist gets off the platform during the journey and misses the compartment, his wife picks him up in a hand-held vehicle.

The protagonist has a dream in the distance, in which his own village appears. The thief sees Sompuri Bao, who looks like a ghost, who jumped into the blazing fire and rescued a girl. The protagonist thinks, 'If there is a fire, can I do as much adventure for my son as Bawa?' Such a mention indicates that something bad is about to happen. A similar encounter occurs at a junction where the protagonist lands to buy a magazine. If you look back a few times, the compartment is not visible.

'Where did all this go? Didn't forget the car? Has anyone picked up? A policeman says: Your compartment will probably be on the same platform. The boxes here were cut and joined there ... Twenty-five steps of the bridge were climbed with one breath .. The car started moving like a snail ... '

The portraits of the passengers illustrate the journey. He gives the protagonist the booklet 'Suvichar', in which such a hymn is printed:

(Raag - Teri Pyari Pyari Surat Ko Kisiki ... A Dhaal)

O Vishwapati in your faith

Ongoing deals

Away from the resident ... Tech

Here, the cults that make fun of eroticism and satire are ridiculed. A hawker has set out to sell Ganga-Jam toothpaste:

'How many of you will be going on a pilgrimage. So will you wash your face in the holy rivers like Paruvala Dante Mata? Will you disgust other pilgrims with your diseased tooth germs, my sisters? ... only four of these in a bottle ...

One woman has been fired from her job as a teacher. The old woman playing sapolia in the veins says that she was a rundi in the ninth year. Bharthari's 14-year-old boy is playing the fiddle and singing. I remember Sundaram's poem 'Local of 12-7', in which such descriptions of travelers are found:

'Below it is the plain

Khudabaksho Ch Olia

Fakirs, shahuos, old,

Monks and madmen

Cuff black or green

In saffron or white

Like printed cutlery

Always licensees'

The author sometimes uses amusing metaphors. What is the Sun Temple where the son is to be taken? 'A temple seated like Hola with both eyes closed.' How do vehicles feel waiting for the gate to open? 'Like beasts of prey.'

As he approaches his station, the protagonist goes to the toilet and urinates. (A disgusting long description of it shows the futility of life.)

There was a knock on the door. The urine stopped in the middle ... The wife asks in a teased voice: Is Bhai (son) with you? '

The son is not inert. The wife's voice cracks, 'Oops .. what if someone picked it up?' The protagonist slaps his wife. Instead of trying to recover, they wallow in their sadness and thus, experience more failure. An atmosphere of tension is formed. The weight of the hand became unbearable like that of a marble .. The tree was frozen in the hollows below like a cross in the dark. . '

By analogy and sensuality the author succeeds in uplifting the unbearable situation. The whistle blows the emergency ear. The protagonist, who is a writer by profession, says, 'Let's finish a story.' From a neutral point of view, it is one of the unparalleled sorrows, if we feel it personally, it is a shock that the life goes wrong. The son came back smiling? Fell off the train? The protagonist's marital life broke down? Since the story is modern, it ends with a question mark, not a full stop. Around 19, Suresh Joshi wrote: The navel of a Gujarati novel is running. It was one of half a dozen modern novels written in the years that followed. Thus it has historical value.

The title of Laghunaval suggests that this is not a travelogue but a story of births and deaths.