tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65411363812626667572024-03-05T14:31:55.157-08:00ReflectionsAnupam Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179237569294043987noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541136381262666757.post-35637578642150107972016-11-28T10:45:00.001-08:002016-11-30T04:09:07.453-08:00Arrival - A Stunning Probe Into Elements of Humanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xls6qTLIgQs4rT18BKM5k1XKcmbQRxchM5dCVw343Wu5mxgmJZY2QKD0eICnHfLIX4ZcntUruBPHs58hg_Ltm0AuZGp-q6UNQYAk_siVYFHvnu4apG3yK6lKAUXFTpClNwTl89WJ8LIR/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xls6qTLIgQs4rT18BKM5k1XKcmbQRxchM5dCVw343Wu5mxgmJZY2QKD0eICnHfLIX4ZcntUruBPHs58hg_Ltm0AuZGp-q6UNQYAk_siVYFHvnu4apG3yK6lKAUXFTpClNwTl89WJ8LIR/s1600/images.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">A linguist with the weapon (ability) of seeing the future knows that she
will marry the man who stood by her in her quest to cohere two civilizations that
are light years apart, to preempt the world community from making history’s
greatest error of judgment and to finally bind them in unity for posterity. She
knows that he will father her daughter who is going to leave them prematurely
as she would helplessly sleep holding her dying body as she slips away bit by
bit from her grip. She knows that when she will predict to him about that loss,
he’ll walk out on her, telling her that she made a wrong choice (in everything).
Still, when she'd be proposed by him, she’d agree regardless. A heartbreaking personal price that <i>Arrival’s</i>
protagonist has to pay for the ability to gift humanity a historic makeover.
Suffice this should to underline the human element within the science fiction
that ‘<i>Arrival’ </i>purports to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "high tower text" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Intricate emotional layers aside, t</span><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">he story of “Arrival” is lucid — aliens arrive and then we
contact them and whatever follows, follows. Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, a
linguist who is called in by the U.S. government when the arrival happens. One
sliced egg shaped UFO above the grasslands of Montana, and eleven more descend
at other locations around the globe. Louise, along with a physicist (played by
Jeremy Renner), is tasked with establishing contact with the visitors from far
space and decode why they are here. They meet their hosts, two giant,
squid-like beings that float on the other side of a see-through barricade. Verbal communication attempts yield complex outcomes, but written
words and images bring promising results. Communication with the creatures moves slowly, but it at least begins
to move.</span><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">But here is the
challenge. If we are trying to understand a culture fundamentally different
from our own we could not simply gather statistics, analyze grammar, and make
conclusions. We’d have to absorb a different way of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>seeing</i>. We'd have to find out how words are being attached to meaning. It is here that the
movie makes us realize that language isn’t just about understanding how to say
things to someone and ascribe meaning to what comes back. It tells us language has
deeper roots in civilizations and the way they flourish and grow rather than just being a mode of communication. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">The film is replete
with flow of intricacy which keeps you dangling on the verge of guessing and
taking back those guesses about the possibilities that those seem to be
opening. Toying with the danger of drowning the viewers in enigma, Villeneuve
challenges himself as a storyteller/filmmaker and he comes out with flying
colours by dosing the audience with crucial, orienting pieces of information
without any ground shattering violence or action. And a part of the movie’s
stunning brilliance must have to do with Ted Chiang’s spectacular short fiction
‘Story of Your Life’, published almost a decade ago, of which the movie is an
adaptation. Right from the moment the opening scene plays, it’s clear that
we’re in for a reflective expedition through memory, time and crushing grief.
Die hard sci-fi admirers may not soon understand the import of such a premise
in an alien invasion movie. But the story has criss-cross layers to
make you hold on despite a very slow progress and the absence of the entire over
the top stuff we have come to expect from science fiction features. The<i> </i>seminal
subject of fate, loss and the meaning of love are so smartly interwoven with
science that the film’s grip over you never loosens inspite of the so called
slow progress. <o:p></o:p>The director’s
courage in not
sacrificing narrative for entertainment is amply rewarded when the crafted
pieces of his art suddenly come together to make sense. As one leading
journal has written, the film is a profound example of how the best movies are
those that allow the narrative and entertainment to coexist in <i>unforced, tolerant
balance. </i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "high tower text" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">Imagine the conundrum
which the protagonist has to deal with. To know that if she creates a life,
it’s going to end prematurely, brutally and dissolve the cohesion of the most
priceless bonds. Yet, she embraces that future. Yet, she chooses to bring that
life into existence. Watch it grow, smile with it, play with it, and sleep with
it on the same bed, helplessly witness it wilt abruptly and die. The question
you cannot help asking yourself in that moment is should we meddle with future
if we are able to foresee it? Beyond the sci-fi narrative ‘Arrival’ makes this
tantalizing probe. But by the time you arrive at that point you’d have already
lived a brilliant unfolding of a never before experienced story about human
alien relationship. One that is far from being gory or from being driven by a motive
to annihilate or dominate. When the decisive rendezvous happens, contrary to accumulated expectations, it turns out to be meaningful instead of menacing,
meditative instead of adverse and peaceful instead of violent. You cannot help but admire with a smile the clever use of restraint with
which you have are made to experience a genre of storytelling often
characterized by conflicts of colossal proportions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a stunning science fiction drama about linguistics, aliens, and how we live
today. Chances are that after watching it you’ll come out of the theater with a lump in your
throat besides the feeling of having been overwhelmed by a rainbow of feelings .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVpYiN2wZP_G97dBKlN1lZ5-bMbYN6mzXJGpoFdH8dG8nLKgYdURiwqUHvFIVUn-a4HyEITeT4ef5G3wF7g6pAmIYpOiTxAZAW9v9bdkf7zHFCaoSm9iHPju6oO1rlkDpILVIMuqc38rz/s1600/A+Book+And+Pen+On+Table.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVpYiN2wZP_G97dBKlN1lZ5-bMbYN6mzXJGpoFdH8dG8nLKgYdURiwqUHvFIVUn-a4HyEITeT4ef5G3wF7g6pAmIYpOiTxAZAW9v9bdkf7zHFCaoSm9iHPju6oO1rlkDpILVIMuqc38rz/s320/A+Book+And+Pen+On+Table.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Wh<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif;">y is poetry born</span></span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">?</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Does its
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">womb in darkness churn?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">O</span>r<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> is its river reason?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Where are
its verses meant to reach<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">The </span></span>heart <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">in which a corner <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">w</span>e <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">crave</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Or <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">the ho<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">me we <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">left </span>behind </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">At the end of an ol<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">d </span></span>path </span>of trust bereft.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Is poetry merry, singable, is i<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">t </span>a song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Or is its
verse only a whisper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Like the cry waves leave by <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">their </span>shore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">In </span>an ageless error of love.</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When we
write poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Are we
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Is <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">poetry</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"></span>
confluence of our humble sides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">And</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif;"> w</span>ith
melody <span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif;">must <span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif;">it </span></span>be sewn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Or is it the dissent of <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">sore </span>tides.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">A<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">ble at performin<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">g</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">within silen<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">t</span> strides.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Is <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">our </span>poem <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">a hal<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">t<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> for someone's timeless wander</span></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To hear
which <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">the wait has been suffered</span></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Are words <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">of your </span></span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">poetry</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Better
guarantors <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">At
negotiating our differences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">That stone
walls cover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I know that <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">b</span>y poetry
we undress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And cover
the frayed flesh of our tattered soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Our poems are our window
to the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And the
world's <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">peek in</span>to the depths<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> that we f<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">all.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Where
should we hide poetry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">If it goes
unheard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Why should
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">If <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">nothing it <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">alters </span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">that it mu<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">st</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Burning,
aflame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Consumed <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">i</span>n fire and dust of hopes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Is poetry
meant to die and be reborn</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">p<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">aper or transcend boundaries that guns draw.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">If it is
meant to<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> be the <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">song </span>of ages</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Why poetry
must be written by poets alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Strange - poetry is immortal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When the
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">They call
poetry abstract, figment,<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> feetless walk</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And the labour<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> o</span>f a mind swimming among islands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And to find a<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"> <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">answer I yet must write another one</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">What do I
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Or of
their power and shelter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">For I have
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">conceal </span>the sky of my losses under its wings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To be able
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">T</span>o breathe by <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">my poem's </span>shadowy side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To cry
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To sing
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I write those poems <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When truth
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">To </span>the <span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif";">twilight of</span></span> my dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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never had, still don't have, the kind of money required to pack my bags and fly
away to the many captivating spots of nature to heal from bad memories, or meet men and women, </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 20px;">bond with them, </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">strive for</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;"> experiences that distract </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">us</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">. I even
never had too many friends. And whichever friends were
there I couldn't bring up before them my personal struggles for discussion. Therefore,
since a very young age, to deal with my ghosts I've always turned to cinema, to
books, to writers who could tell me stories, make me meet characters whose choices
in life were as bad, show me that often man suffers, loses love, falls into the abyss of
solitude and that his life is still worth </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">something</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">, atleast </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">o</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">f becoming a story, despite </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">terrible things</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 15pt;"> happening in
them all the time.</span><br />
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
deal with the aftermath of a relationship, <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">unforgettable<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";"> and </span>impossible in equal parts</span></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, I started to look for a book<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">with the hope I
mentioned,</span></span> to find my story in its pages,
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">only to be t<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">orn </span></span>between two Booker winning masterpieces. Coetze's <i>Disgrace</i>
and Flanagan's ‘<i>The Narrow Road to the Deep North’</i>. I went for the
latter <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">simply</span> because of the subject it seemed to be about. I read, reread its
single liner blurb which went <i>“In the despair
of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is
haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier</i>”<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">. Once I read this, </span>I found it hard to be able to look beyond Flanagan’s
novel. Hence, it was not just because it had bagged the Booker in 2014
that the book found its way onto my shelf and into my heart.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
story of TNRTTDN is an unmitigated account of the atrocity perpetrated on the
captives of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Burma
death railway</i>. Flanagan describes it in the following words <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For good reason, the
POWs refer to the slow descent into madness that followed simply with two
words: the Line. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the
men who were on the line and the rest of humanity. Or perhaps only one sort:
the men who survived the Line. Or perhaps, in the end, even this is inadequate.
Dorrigo Evans was increasingly haunted by the thought that it was only the men
who died on the line. He feared that only in them was the terrible perfection
of suffering and knowledge that made one fully human</i>” </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
the railway is being constructed by hundreds of thousands of slaves, <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">t</span>hey are forced to work no matter how close
to starvation they are and no matter how sick they are. <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">T</span>he slaves are beaten for hours on end. <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">T</span>hey suffer from cholera
and have to walk miles through the jungle before they start work, often
day and night. Towards the end some are crawling or dying.<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";"> Thus, </span>Flanagan’s
protagonist has to deal with two colossal and perpetual events of tragedy, the
casualties of the war and his lost love. The first one, the war, is everywhere
in Flanagan's novel. You live, suffer and die with the POWs. You go through
their starvation and share their desperate clinging on to each other in misery.
You feel the peeling of flesh under the whip and the fatal entry of bullet when
they fall. But the<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">ir favour<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">ite doctor, who i<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">s </span>sav<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">ing</span> them all the time, </span></span>is facing another war within<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">, <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">the memories of his </span>mom<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">entous relationship with Amy</span></span>. The recounting of that short experience is incredibly
detailed. In those few pages Flanagan ensures that his readers understand why
even a short, momentary experience can command our <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">discretion</span> long after it is
over. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dorrigo
Evans is soon to be married to Ella, but when his division is shipped out he is
deep in love with Amy, the lovely wife of his uncle Keith. Dorrigo's brief affair with Amy haunts him for the rest of his life<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">. </span> <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">T</span>he memories of her
expressions, her beauty spot over her lips, their love making. They never set
him free even when he marches through war and tends to ghastly wounds and
diseases of the prisoners.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
Dorrigo’s longing for Amy, Flanagan writes “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dorrigo’s life at the
King of Cornwall (his uncle’s hotel where he met Amy), which was measured in
hours and which could have added up to no more than a few weeks, seemed to be
the only life he had ever lived. Everything else was an illusion over which he
passed as a shadow, unconnected, unconcerned, only angry when that other life,
the other world wished to make claim on him, demanding that he act or think
about something, anything other than Amy’.</i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I believe that profound art is often sourced to suffering. So when I was greatly moved by TNRTTDN, this belief I subscribe to only got strengthened when I came to know that Flanagan's father was a prisoner in
Burma himself<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";"> who </span>died the day Flanagan finished his novel<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">. <span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">The auth<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";">or </span></span></span>has made it
clear that the book is a tribute to his father. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
you have ever felt love that was so deep reaching and powerful and compelling
that it turned all those fiercely burning passions of your life into mere warmth
of candle flame, if you have known of the kind of love which wraps itself like
skin around your soul, if you have then had to live with no possibility of ever
getting that love and in the middle of despair if you have had to deliver
yourself to things which took you very far away from it, things that owned your
body without any meaning or heart, till you realized that there was nothing you
could have done, then Richard Flanagan's 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is
a must read for you.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
book has made something beautiful out of things terrible as war and loss. By
the time you would have arrived at the final passages you’d have, with a lump
in your heart agreed with the rest of the blurb which says <i>‘Richard
Flanagan’s savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and
death, of war and truth, as one man come of age, prospers, only to discover all
that he has lost’.</i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif";"><i> </i></span>This
book might just convince you that life is more than happiness, a normal
existence and being free. It is about having to break at life’s hands and still
strive to live. That as individuals, we have to walk very narrow roads
with great depths. The haiku of Kobayashi Issa mentioned in one of its pages will suffice to hint at the revelation one might encounter while and after
reading TNRTTDN.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"In
this world</span></i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
walk on the roof of hell</span></i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Gazing
at flowers”</span></i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
cloud may love forever the river it chooses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Long
to have itself shower into her belovedly bosom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Wait
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
merge with her measureless love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
flow into the vastness of their shared end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But
what does a cloud know about fate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
loving river may abide by his unpredictability, and rage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Devotedly
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
beckon still its soul with love;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Taking
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For, born it
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Unmerge
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Observe
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Watch
her find a passionate closure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the infiniteness of a worthy ocean's bosom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Learn
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Drunk
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Only
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Though
brief in length only, their child a universe of memories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of
the epigrammatic union within the safe depths of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her
shelter he worshiped as their home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
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<span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
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Chosen red words of desire<br />
They wait to make their journey<br />
Committed to convey a thousand longings<br />
Immemorial and never ending.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Remember, if you're not there,<br />
With the doors of your heart flung open<br />
Remember that if my words don't feel welcome,<br />
They shall not return;<br />
For it is not in their nature to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 20.0pt;">And the part of me I gave away<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Wrapped in those words<br />
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">My terrible skills in community building returned to
stare at me recently when I read these lines by Rochelle Potkar, whose poems I immensely admire. She writes that ‘<i>w<span style="background: white;">ithin our inner cocoons, we may be dreamers,
incubators, writers, editors, translators, self-critics, self-publishers,
submitters. On the outside, we're fragmented into marketeers,
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">It made me revisit the nagging question as
to how essential is a community for expressionists - writers, performers,
artists. Each of who seek acknowledgment as a reassurance to their
aspirations. Sometimes that community comes all too easily. Try and
remember how before the rest of the world came to know about you, it were your
families and friends who first read you, or admired your art and returned a
gesture of encouragement. But the moment we wish to expand the reach of our works,
the task of building a community of audience becomes as important as writing
itself. To me that community is a shape shifter, incomprehensible and moody.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all game for chasing a community. But it never comes easily </span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">due to the nature of what I often seek to write. I’m forever in the
heart of chaos, from which it is impossible for me to slip out. Truth
is, I let myself be a part of the suffering I write about, for in many ways
it makes me feel relevant. It is therefore difficult to keep up a
charming veneer, one that is more suited to draw attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">I’m not even going to talk about the
excruciating demands of my day job, or the physical limits of human
body which permits as much or the unstoppable closing of eyelids brought about
by physical exhaustion, the complete blankness of mind which is an inescapable
corollary of fatigue when I’m looking to introduce a resolute character in my
story, the distraction that I'm sometimes supposed to embrace just
when I'm about to begin typing. I am even not mentioning the devastating
consequence which that kind of failure to put down your thoughts on paper can mean for your
self confidence. It has the potential of turning you neurotic and making you feel crippled and inadequate and even isolating you within a crowd. Maybe, wrestling with these demons is also a reason why I could never quite become a
community guy. I end up getting so indistinguishably woven with intricacies of the things I
write that it is often hard for me to relate to anything that moves or talks infront of my eyes. I'm afraid if it would
come across as believable if I say that when and after I write, there is barely
anything worth sharing left in me. With that kind of erosion it is difficult to apply
my mind on the nuances of making my presence felt in any kind of community
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">Even Rochelle has gone ahead to ask <span style="background: white;">the same kind of questions to understand whose answers
I have myself been grappling since a while '</span><i>Where is the time for
community-building then?' </i>she probes.<i> ‘The bigger question being
should we be creators or community builders? Or both? What should be the
balance between creating, giving, and taking? And is creating a way of giving
back, in itself?' </i> The answers, sadly, are already gazing at me.
Someday, I’d like those answers to change. I’d like to find the time and the
resources to become a community guy. Hop around. Share pleasantries and feel
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">Please do not mistake my admission as an
allusion for arrogance. I’m many things, stubborn, livid and even delusional
but arrogance isn’t simply my method. It’s just that I have no idea how to
manage with smartness and consistency the projection of my existence. I've
tried my hand at it and failed miserably. </span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">But I am alive to the reality that
expressionists crave many eyes and ears and that I’m no different. An honest
and supportive band of readers is an asset and the feeling of belonging that
their admiration leaves in us is elevating to say the least. I crave it no
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<span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 15pt;">My fellow creators, let me now part by saying
that I’d rather have your precious support without soliciting it in any manner
whatsoever and that I'd rather embrace your accolade if and only if my writings
deserve it and not merely because of the formality of reciprocation. I hope and trust
that it’s not too much to ask for or too disrespectful to confess. And if it so
turns out that for my lack of chasing a community, my words are doomed to
wander the vastlands of invisibility, I guess I’ll have to learn to take it
without any qualm. <i>Quid pro quo </i>exists everywhere, I’ll
explain to my struggles<i>.</i></span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little late in my life (about a year ago) by a friend I'd newly made then. When
we met, one of the first things she was curious to know about me was
the kind of books I’d read. Besides being a published author possessing a
gifted grasp over the craft of expression, she was impressively well read. And
she immediately got down to making recommendations, all the acclaimed ones,
Pullitzer and Booker winners, Costa Books, and a few <i>avante garde</i> works.
But to my surprise, shortly after making that list she got up and sauntered to
the 'Fiction' corner of the store we were in and bought for me a book she had
not mentioned in it, a paperback edition of (<b>Haruki Murakami’s</b>) <i>Norwegian Wood.</i><b> </b>I'll come to the reason shortly.</span></div>
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The novel which elevated Murakami to literary pinnacle, revolves
around the lives of Toru, Naoko and Midori. Toru’s young life is tangled
on one hand by his intense relationship with Naoko who is living far away under
institutional therapy and on the other, by his irrefutable chemistry with Midori,
a fellow drama classmate. He constantly pines for Naoko who is herself battling depression after her boyfriend Kazuki’s suicide (who was Toru’s best
friend as well). At the same time, he finds it almost impossible to evade the influence of his
physical proximity with someone as vivacious and assertive as Midori. Though
the latter seems to be the connection more likely to see the light of the day,
Toru keeps running away to the other, more unpredictable end where
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The atmosphere for the whole novel is set in the opening
scene when the drifting notes of Beatles’ <i>Norwegian Wood</i> falls
on Toru’s ear (who is then thirty seven years old) as his flight is about to
land in Hamburg, Germany and prompts in him an agonizing recollection of memories from
his days as a young student and his love affair with the beautiful but broken
Naoko. He recalls walking beside her for the last time in the snow
layered forests surrounding the mental institution where she was undergoing
intensive therapy. Prompted by an aching fear that they're doomed to part one day, she elicits </span><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">from him </span><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">a
promise that he’ll never stop loving her regardless. When her fears come true, the resultant misery turns very
hard to get over, especially because you desperately look to lay the blame on
someone for the mess but you can barely decide who it should be. Not very late in the story, Naoko commits suicide in that frozen landscape, suspending Toru's existence in sort of a half life. He moves ahead but a part of him remains forever relegated to that
phase in which he'd spent his days with Naoko. He is given a second chance at love with Midori, a chance which he can neither fully embrace
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characters, my heart went out for Hatsumi, the long-suffering girlfriend of
Nagasawa (Toru's flamboyant, womanizer buddy). It was unbearably saddening the way Murakami has sketched her life. The following excerpt may suffice to tell you
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her as his special companion. There were any number of women more beautiful than
Hatsumi, and Nagasawa could have made any of them his. But Hatsumi had some
quality that could send a tremor through your heart. It was nothing forceful.
The power she exerted was a subtle thing, but it called forth deep resonances...w</i></span><i style="font-family: "high tower text", serif; font-size: 14pt;">hat Hatsumi had stirred in me was a part of my
very self that had long lain dormant. And when the realization struck me, it
aroused such sorrow I almost burst into tears. She had been an absolutely
special woman. Someone should have done something—anything—to save her. </i><i style="font-family: "high tower text", serif; font-size: 14pt;">But neither Nagasawa nor I could have managed that. As so many of those I knew
had done, Hatsumi reached a certain stage in her life and decided—almost on the
spur of the moment—to end it. Two years after Nagasawa left for Germany, she
married, and two years after that she slashed her wrists with a razor blade”</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Understandably, NW opened up for me the captivating art of Japanese writing and made me read and adore 'Kazuo Ishiguro's '<i>Never Let Me Go'</i> and his Booker winning work '<i>The Remains of the Day'</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">The adulation showered on you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">And the tiny bits of care that once made your day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">Now before the feet of someone else they lay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">Given away to make another's way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">That the one you wanted to see the world with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">When the anxiety of envy flows past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">When the peace of truth returns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">That it was never meant to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">Nothing lasts forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">That you're happy for her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">That you wish nothing but the best for her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gather the packet where you've hidden her unpaired ear ring,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">The small smiling picture of the both of you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">The white piece of silk perfumed with her kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">The memories they've sheltered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">Send them to the heart of sea where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">They'll pass eternity in company of countless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 21pt;">That's when you gotta whisper <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I'm drawn to guess,</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Something I see amiss</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When she smiles<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Within she cries<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A dozen expressions
she holds<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Mesmeric dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">She wears that lovely
charm<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Underneath gnawed by silence<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I'd hence seize this
chance<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To humbly sing to her
life's balance<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It offers never,
anything with ease<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Nor does it intend
infinite peace<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When someone it makes you
remember</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It seals their memory
forever<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When for them it makes you cry<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">You know that your love's far from a lie<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Though I lack in
intellect<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To tell you an
explanation perfect<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Why it splits us from
ones<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Those who are dear to
our hands<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Hope we must, that they're delivered<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To some land where
peace is forever<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Here we continue to
sail with our life<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And call it a gift
even being torn by strife<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">For those who leave,
watch our scars<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">From distant spaces
bet'n the stars<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">They know our hurt
and count our tears<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">They'd never want us
to be stuck here<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Instead, they'd say,
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">'Cherish me, smile
don't sob<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Whenever you think of
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<i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A joy you must feel
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Gave in to its
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I sank in its verses
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When they were adding
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And slipping mortar
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Did it bring nights
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Memories
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<span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Were
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cat which was the sole occupant of my Quarters before I moved in will return to
its habit of tip toeing to my legs as I sit on the porch in the winter
mornings. It would arrive and lie down. Maybe roll over. Then thoroughly soak
the sun into its gorgeous fur. Then it would stand up, soundlessly arch its
back and stretch its leg and go away as quietly as it came. And all through the
season’s mornings it will religiously repeat the act. I never miss its morning
ritual because observing its peaceful movements reinforces my love for the
mundane. Whenever I look at the creature, I want to be content with my
life. Please do not think that I'm not alive to the sea of differences between
the life of a cat and that of mine. But the basics don't differ that much. I
mean it has to hunt for food and with increased pest control measures a urban
cat has to face a far greater struggle for filling its belly than it once used
to. It has to find a shelter. That isn't cake walk either. I've seen it being
shunned by many. It even goes through its share of sickness and loneliness.
Therefore I am led to think that in a way, within so much trouble, its peaceful
movements don it with a <i>monk</i> like appearance. That
word in turn reminds me of a friend who, vexed by a certain disappointment,
fumed that he wants to give up everything and proceed to some faraway place, a
sort of a refuge from worldly troubles and live like a monk. I
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<i><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">“It
would save me from all the stress and unhappiness</span></i><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">' he'd answered immediately. I had no point to make to
him at that time. Not because I was not in agreement with him but because there
was no way I could know if he was wrong or right. When I recall that
conversation I kind of feel compelled to reach out to him and tell him
that I may have finally understood what it takes to be a monk. And it may
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As going through a bit of life has taught me, a real
monk would perhaps be someone who would remain open to the idea of pain and
pleasure alike. Not shy away from either. Indulge. Taste a bit of things that
men are supposed to know in their lifetimes. Bond with an open heart, enjoy the
flavour of those ties and let go when they insist to drift, make peace with
heartbreaks that may occur because of them. Savour the uplifting sensation of
victories as much as absorb the lessons mistakes teach. Nurture in our heart
some compassion for the world and most importantly for ourselves. Accept
that it's alright to not be as provided for as a very prosperous friend or an
affluent neighbour. Never underestimate the strength of hope. In short, live
without malice. A true monk would be a man right in the heart of the world,
sailing on its mysterious waters, discovering and learning and exploring and
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">I doubt
that if I say this to you my friend, the unremitting cynic that you used to be,
you may instantly critique <i>'What about happiness? Aren’t we doomed to
never stop looking for it in vain?</i>’ Then I would say to you that happiness
is a mirage. It may exist everywhere for some and nowhere for others. Most
people think they are looking for happiness when all they really need to find
is contentment. The dangers of searching for happiness also lies in the tragedy
that it rarely comes when one is looking for it. As Ruskin Bond says ‘It is as
elusive as butterfly and we may never pursue it. If we stay very still it may
come and settle on our hand. But only briefly...' </span><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Old friend,
I'm not sure if you actually hid yourself from the world to become a monk. And
if you did, whether that brought you what you wanted. But if you’ve stayed
back, I urge you to spend a couple of mornings with me at my place. Put your
leg right by my side so that you can connect with the cat. And only then I can
begin to reason with you, if need still be, that it takes something else
altogether to not be sad than losing ourselves on a path away to the high
mountains. That the clues are all here, right in the very places we live, walk
and sleep in. That things that you’re worried about, things like disappointment and
stress would always be. That the secret to life is living it regardless.
Looking for its light and its shadow under the sky of its struggles. It always has
been man's destiny.</span><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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simplicity is a song that we take years to absorb fully. Its
predicaments are rarely answered in a straight yes or no nor are its colors
ever visible as mere black and white. Its shades are grayer than they
look on the surface and only the ones it chooses to test have the good or
bad fortune to discover their knowledge. In the context of recalling life's
many small and big struggles I recall how someone once
said somewhere that many things start anew with forgiveness. But
starting life anew is not the real reason why I choose to talk to you
about forgiveness today. Something that we won't be talking
about for the first time. Believe me, there are reasons which make me
come back to the subject. This time the reason is a sincere hope of the truth,
hope of honoring it and respecting it notwithstanding the distractions and
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is hard to forgive when we think and proclaim that forgiving is not our thing.
It becomes even harder to find that forgiveness for persons and things and
memories with whom we connect deeply and the same person becomes the reason of
too much pain. My childhood friend nurtured strong resentment for someone who
she thought had betrayed her. She sort of disdainfully declared that forgiving
isn’t quite her thing. She is my friend and we understand each other on many
levels and I even know where she is coming from here. But being her friend, I
also have a duty to see that she doesn’t commit herself to things unfair. Not
for a moment do I wish to lecture her about the right and wrong of things. Who
am I after all. Neither have I suffered the pain that she claims to have
suffered nor are my expectations shattered here. But what I must remind her and
everyone similarly placed is that life’s tragedies are not always someone’s
doing. Life sucks and it does regardless of us having the worst or the best
people around. And we simply cannot fill the unanswered questions in life, no
matter how hurtful they are, with the paint of someone’s perceived guilt. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When we choose to walk the path of love we expose ourselves to blissful and
agonizing possibilities alike. And it isn’t always the other person’s fault
that things don’t work out. This sort of leads to a perceptional error of what
truly is the implication of any relationship. It might be the same for every
stakeholder yet one or only a few of them might consider themselves on a
testing tide. This, in my opinion, is many times the foundation of so many
misjudgments. And it is often after we misjudge that we make the most terrible
choice of not forgiving someone.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after all? Underneath the ornamental adages and solemn verses often employed to
explain its meaning, forgiveness is simply the act of being able to understand.
Just ask yourself if you lack this ability or do you possess it. I want you to
ask this question because what really concerns me is the alarmingly large
number of times there is a mistaken discernment of truth under which these
decisions to forgive or not forgive are taken.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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colossal power of circumstances knows what it can have you do. It can break
through the most foolproof barrier of logic and rationales. So even if I may,
on a rigid interpretation of things, hold him accountable, I'd still be very
careful as to what punishment I sentence him to. Sometimes our acts may hurt
despite that hurt never being our real intention. We can't afford to forget the
difference. That difference may at times be hazy but it makes all the
difference between what is fair and what is outright injustice.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">But my friend’s was a
heart pining in love and loss. Sometimes for a pining heart, drops of joy
are squeezed away and that can trick the mind and turn the most ostensible
truth into a lie. I cannot ignore how the man, my friend’s perceived tormentor
is equally a victim of the circumstances. But that's a truth which is way
beyond my friend's reach. Such truths are never meant to reveal themselves and
we spend our lives thinking that what we have been allowed to see is the whole
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sometimes a common notion that we are alright in not forgiving, thinking that
we have enough reasons to choose how we choose. But are we careful enough to
judge the basis of that choice? To weigh it in the scales of right and wrong?
In simple words, when we decide not to forgive someone do we ask ourselves
whether we know how even a short walk in his shoes feels like. What
if he is blameless? Maybe not to an unconcerned onlooker but to one who is
ready to understand the ‘why’ of things. Truth is, forgiveness is not as much
the issue here as is the tragic perception of what’s faulty in someone’s acts.
To that misconception there is the most unspeakable consequence.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that when we decide to declare someone guilty and unworthy of forgiveness
we must be absolutely certain that he deserves it. We must make sure
that there is nothing to mitigate his culpability. That there is nothing hidden
in the dark which we never saw, which we never could have seen,
things that make an exception. The next time you decide to pull up your
wits and declare that ‘I can’t forgive’ think again. There might just be a
thorn in the shoe that person wears, one that makes him bleed all the same, the
blood whose marks you won’t ever see.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with regard to sharing the FIR with the persons implicated therein. To those
who do not function in the realm of legal world, an FIR (First Information
Report) is nothing but the first report of an incident which discloses the
commission of an offence and which sets the criminal law into motion. In other words
it is the FIR which lays the foundation for a proper criminal investigation. It
is not necessary that an aggrieved person or a victim should file an FIR.
Anyone who has any kind of information about any criminal incident may lodge a
report of the same before a Police officer. There are nuances and guidelines that
have to be scrupulously followed in matters of lodging and receiving FIR and
the actions to be taken thereafter but that is a separate discussion altogether.
What must however be clear to everyone is the great significance of an FIR for
both, the informant / victim and the accused. It was naturally thus always a subject
of debate as to whether in an environment where we are striving for greater information
sharing and accountability, it was being unfair to the accused persons to keep
them away from knowledge of a potential criminal litigation implicating them.
In my considered view it was. Subject ofcourse to certain obvious exceptions
such as matters of national security, terrorism, crimes against women (where
the identity of a victim is of paramount consideration keeping in view her dignity
sought to be protected) any and all possible accusations against a person
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hours, a copy of the FIR to the accused if the latter files for its copy either
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Police website and /or the State Govt.’s website within 24 hours of its
registration. This shall enable the accused to download an FIR against him and
take timely steps for his defence or redressal. Exceptions are FIRs pertaining
to sexual offences, sexual offences against children, terrorism, insurgency and
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his grievance and it shall be addressed within 3 days. Be it noted that when
Police denies to give copy of FIR, it is always open to the person to move the
Court where it has been sent to. Since as per law every FIR’s copy is
mandatorily sent to the Magistrate’s Court after registration. Hence the
accused can always also alternatively approach the Court for a copy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ofcourse an FIR being a public document (as per the definition
of the term in the Evidence Act) information can be obtained about it by way of
RTI Act. However that would only be information as sought for which is
sometimes vitally different from the copy of the document itself. Further, an
RTI application may be denied information on the grounds that it would hamper investigation.
Hence, the Supreme Court verdict in <b>Youth
Bar Association of India </b>has opened to the public realm what used to be a
much clandestine area in the criminal justice delivery system. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The only thing that troubles my mind is the
consequences, both personal and larger, of having a FIR registered against me
available to the viewing of the whole world. But then I recall the principles
that run any welfare nation, ones that call upon its subjects to relinquish a
part of their individual comforts when something sacred is sought to be
achieved for the community at large.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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civilization is fighting hard to emancipate us and the other is applying its
resources, for reasons best known to it, to offset that endeavor.
Wholeheartedly pledging to the deeper spirit of the verdict and the benefits it
aims to usher for the honest and the innocent against unscrupulous attempts
against their liberties, I beseech my fellow citizens to honor that spirit and
espouse what it seeks to redress and improve, an act which after all is only
our solemn duty</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Just for a few more
days</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Let me have a few more hours</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A few more moments</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Let me soak your beauty</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">To whose serene layers</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Melancholy clings fervently</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Take the rest of my youth</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And this life that's a void without you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This life which is nothing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But the tattered cloth of a beggar</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Patches and stitches of pain and pining</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And the scent of a mirage hiding its poverty</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Pity these helpless throbs</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Of my mind and my soul</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Helpless, this body longs</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">For what was never his<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Just a few more hours</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Will since long captive, dreams have surrendered</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This is what I've inherited</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This is what I couldn't escape<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For the sake of the love
that we said we carried<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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humiliation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A few more hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let me lie on your
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That never failed me</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">There's a tiny heart inside, that's a rebel</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Agony and abandon never scare it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">It beats but for you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Just a few more days</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Stay for a few more hours</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We know that you'll go</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">For there is nothing to stop you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Or make you wrap your arms</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Around this tattered cloth of a beggar</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That pretends to be my soul</span></span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This morning is red<br />Even though dawn has slipped away <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.5pt;">These drops which leave their home</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A forgotten elegy beneath</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 14.5pt;">The grey
slow clouds they hum</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
I remember a embrace like this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Partly
full of longing<br />And partly ridden with abandon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">How
incomplete the same skies seem<br />
No different than my immobile passing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
journey is now a point itself<br />
No goal, no home to hope for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Inchoate our story shall be<br />
But nothing has felt more absolute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">And more complete than this love I carry within</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Your
kisses break at the doorstep<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Of a haunting memory of autumn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That
autumn is about to knock again<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "euphemia" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The world shall immerse in blinding rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anupam Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179237569294043987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541136381262666757.post-41390458948945234102016-07-13T09:06:00.001-07:002016-07-13T09:06:33.872-07:00An Ode To My Lighthouse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Centaur","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I closed my eyes<br />
And tried to push her away <br />
Far into the blackness of memory<br />
I saw for the first time<br />
Why her I had chosen<br />
She was infinite<br />
Vastness was her name<br />
And she was all over the heavens<br />
She twinkled bright<br />
Against my endless void<br />
Like a sunrise past<br />
A deafening storm<br />
A lighthouse to my soul adrift<br />
A hope that kept me afloat<br />
She made me learn<br />
Why at all men fall in love<br />
And why from it they never return<br />
In sickness or health<br />
In pleasures or in sorrow<br />
She may not be and<br />
The world may not know of her<br />
But she will be my mark<br />
Even long after I'm gone<br />
And my memory will never exist<br />
Without her name in it<br />
I opened my eyes and realized<br />
There are somethings you can't outrun<br />
Your love and your soulmate<br />
And your vain dreams<br />
Are often most of them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anupam Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179237569294043987noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541136381262666757.post-60312422311100076262016-07-11T10:50:00.001-07:002016-07-13T08:31:30.026-07:00Amaranthine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
love you when your scarlet lips pray </span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And your feather feet turn the fate of my way,</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And bind the oceans in seraphic smile,</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You're
the moonlit verse which heavens wear<br />
An ageless song that clouds shower.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">I love you for amaranthine is your loveliness</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 36px;">Your arms a fragile haven for my slowing self</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "centaur" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
I love you when you kneel with kindness<br />
And touch my barren soul's emptiness.</span><span style="font-family: "centaur" , serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Anupam Patrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179237569294043987noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541136381262666757.post-39187882018551365062016-07-08T20:53:00.001-07:002016-09-04T08:52:48.486-07:00A Letter She Can Never Send<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear D.., <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Whoever you are, however you are, you have
become important to me and you have found a way to reach my heart and prayers.
There is no social attachment that binds you and me. There is no religious or
physiological bond between us as well. What I’m writing is something that would
flow as a river, free from needs, wishes, desires and expectations. This is a
river that is bound to connect our ends. You know why? Let me tell you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You have been indeed
lucky to find yourself the way to come into A's life. If his name makes
you smile (as it made me while typing it) you are lucky. God has chosen you to
love him, to be with him. Chances are that this letter may annoy you and you may get irritated
as why I am writing to you. But when I explain the connection to you, things
would perhaps be clearer. And I hope forgiveness would be unnecessary. I hope you’d see
beyond the things people may have us blinded with.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To me loving <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">A </span>is a faith beyond the set norms of the world. In worldly eyes he and I have
nothing in common, nothing at all. We are two separate individuals, but
connected somehow by a powerful thread that makes me feel proud that I have
been able to feel this way at all for anyone. Now, before you think anything or
anything wrong at all, I want to clarify somethings. You are his life
partner, his life in a way; I am his shadow that doesn't abandon him, even in
darkness. I’m there naturally. And even if this shadow may appear formidable to
you, as shadows are <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">sometimes meant<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";"> </span></span>to, know that all shadows are harmless. They are
just there because they can’t escape their source. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You on the other
hand are real for him. You have the right to sit beside him, hold his hands, look into his
eyes, caress his hair and love him, I lie like the cushion behind his back,
soles under his feet to comfort him while he is loved by you. You make the
morning tea for him, and I make sure the temperature is just right for his
lips. You walk beside him, leaning on his shoulders, I run ahead of you both to
remove any pebble or thorns that might stop your romantic walk together. When
you make his bed for him, I would make sure he has peace in his eyes to enjoy
it. I am not here to erect any walls between you and him, rather, my only
wish is to see that <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">he </span>is happy and peaceful. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Believe me when I say
that you are equally important to me as he is. We have a very delicate relation
to handle because he cannot live without his love and his life; we have to make
sure he has both to live normally. You are very lucky because with you he chose
to share his life and happiness; on the other hand I am happy to share his pain
and sorrows. Now you can also share his sorrows and pain, and it’s something a
life partner does but I want you to be always cheerful and happy and smiling,
so that <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">his</span> world is always happy and bright. I don’t think that is much to
ask for when we both love and want the same thing, <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">A's </span>happiness. I know it’s
difficult to understand. You may hate me and my bold statement that I am in
your husband's life. But believe me, I am not in his life. Truth is that I lay just
inside his mind as a small tiny part that makes things beautiful for him. Yes,
I have an individual life as well, one that is made beautiful by his presence. I do
not ask for his time, his love, his money or anything else. Just a tiny little corner in his
subconscious. I would live like I do not exist for both of you; all I need is
the permission to love him. Because the day I stop loving him I am certain <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">I'd</span> perish . I
beg this of you to consider. Let me be dirt under your feet, but let me be
there so that with you I touch A. As you are in his life like a support, like
a backbone, I am relaxed and not much worried about how he would eat, work,
write and take care of himself. Because I know you are capable in making him
comfortable. He deserves to be treated with love, and believe me; he deserves
so much love that only both of us can fulfill it. With all our differences and
individual approaches, we make a perfect love and life for him to live. I hope
you understand what my heart seeks. Maybe it’s too much to ask. Maybe it’s
impossible to fulfill. But if you love him like loving is meant to be done then please
allow me what I <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">seek</span>. Having lived with <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">him</span> for this long you must have felt that things are not going to be easy. But then they never are meant to be with someone like our A<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif";">.</span> He is a dreamer, he wants too many things and wants to make everyone and everything alright and he has a heart of a child. Which is why we have a difficult
task at hand. Let's make a promise to each other and live like we are not
two but one person who cares deeply for the same man. A would be the happiest
when we can achieve this. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "century schoolbook" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’ve seen you. And
the way he describes you, I feel at peace because he has someone like you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;"><i>You won't lose anything to me, ever.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;"><i><span style="font-family: "century schoolbook" , serif;">I Promise.</span></i></span></span><br />
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