Sharodiya (Bangla)

Writing this after awhile... a year precisely.... guess THIS is what they call Writers' block...:)

Was going thru the "Sharodiya"s.... seen an bizzare pattern... nothing new though. Its not even "Deja vu", just the boring "same-old same-old" feel.... am sure u all have gone thru it every pujo. Same old Shirshendu, same old Sunil... the pointlessness of the NRI life as he sees it, and of course one Mr.Majumdar who's plots start somewhere and end up in North Bengal. Sometimes I wonder why Ramanath Roy writes the stories every pujo, that same old narration with no style, and make no mistake, he is not being minimalist, just the lack of it that is never compensated by any substantial story.

Then there is Prachet Gupta. If the names of his characters were Muslim and the the location was Dhaka etc, it could be another Humayun Ahmed novel. Oh yes, he should have named it something like "Purano Sei Diner kotha" or "E Parabase Rabe Ke" or something, in the same line as Mr.Ahmed does, with almost no relation to the plot. "Taalika" is way too relevant for his story. Though the ending was more Satyajit Ray-like.

And I still love to explain my non-Indian friends (who visit my place and show their interest about our script) about what's a Sharodiya and how we are far better than any breed on the planet by having 10,000 annual issues of Literature journals and a book-fair and all other arty-farty stuff.

So much for now, have a class at 11, so let me rush.