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एक उलट एक सुलट
Collection of Articles published in Loksatta, Marathi Daily Newspaper, written by Amruta Subhash, under same name.
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January 31, 2017
I have just put down this book. I have been reading it over the last one week or so. Before I lost my thoughts in my corporate rigmarole, I decided to pen down my thoughts about this book. Congratulations on rendering such a wonderfully sensitive collection of articles.
At the outset, I must say that Amruta is a gifted and sensitive writer. She chooses her words well and she expresses her thoughts, feelings and sentiments very carefully. Her words articulate her thoughts/feelings succinctly. Some of those articles touched me deeply.
I particularly liked “Nati Aai.” I loved the fact that She resonated with her mother’s plight (at that time) and appreciated her for everything she has done for her so far. Today’s children don’t necessarily do that, do they? Of course, her mother is an accomplished artist. It’s indeed a difficult task to balance a career and raise sensitive children. By the way, I have great reverence for her mother’s performances over the years.
I also liked “Maitra Jeevanche.” I liked her rendition of her association with the female elephant during the filming of Astu. I ought to tell you that I have two dogs. A black Labrador, her name is Saee. She is 14 years old and the other one is a purebred tricolor Beagle, She is Jui and is 8 years old. They mean the world to me. They understand pretty much everything that I say to them. The respond to my love. I am their Baba. They wait on me when it’s time for me to return home in the evening. I usually tell them in advance about my business travel out of Bangalore or if I was going to be late returning home but one day, I forgot. I had to go for business dinner. I was scheduled to return quite late. That evening, they did not sleep, they waited by the window in my drawing room and kept looking out to see if they saw me coming. Finally around 1030 pm when I returned they jumped all over me and licked my face for good ten minutes as if to ask me why I was late. I resonated with her thoughts in that story exceptionally well.
I liked her story on “Rituparno Ghosh.” I have been his fan for many years and after his demise, read quite a lot about him. Reading his story was disturbing because it articulated the obstacles one had to undergo if one did not fit the straight jacket in which the world expect one to fit. In fact, I have a friend who now lives in California. He relocated there several years ago just because he had no acceptance from society for who he was. I have often wondered why his orientation was a topic of concern for the rest of the society he lived in.
I also liked her story “Itumelani.” It made me think about one’s desires and how we associate tiny situations and things to our inner most desires and wants. Wonderfully written.
I liked her article about suicide. I completely agree with her that many of us have had thoughts like the way she has presented them. I was shocked to read something in that article. When I went to Niagara in the year 2014, I had the exact same thoughts as hers. I was not sad or disturbed but the elation of seeing something so spectacular took over my mind. The moment passed by and I did not think about it much. However, as I sat back in my bus to cross Canada border I wondered if I was insane to have had thought like that. I laughed at myself and felt I was weird but today, when I read her thoughts, I knew that people could have such thoughts and that I was not alone in feeling the way I had felt then. By the way, I have seen a similar pond in Dhamapur in the Konkan area. It was eerie and mysterious.
Lastly, I want to tell her that her rendition about her father’s ailment stayed with me for few days. I had a friend in my university in the US, whose mother died because of the same ailment. I have seen it all from close quarters. I know it is quite an arduous task to deal with those thoughts.
Most importantly, each of her articles came across as something that left me with a positive thought. That was quite impressive. Let me once again congratulate her on such a wonderful compilation and on presenting vividly, succinctly the collection of her thoughts to her readers. She has indeed communicated them very well. Kudos!
At the outset, I must say that Amruta is a gifted and sensitive writer. She chooses her words well and she expresses her thoughts, feelings and sentiments very carefully. Her words articulate her thoughts/feelings succinctly. Some of those articles touched me deeply.
I particularly liked “Nati Aai.” I loved the fact that She resonated with her mother’s plight (at that time) and appreciated her for everything she has done for her so far. Today’s children don’t necessarily do that, do they? Of course, her mother is an accomplished artist. It’s indeed a difficult task to balance a career and raise sensitive children. By the way, I have great reverence for her mother’s performances over the years.
I also liked “Maitra Jeevanche.” I liked her rendition of her association with the female elephant during the filming of Astu. I ought to tell you that I have two dogs. A black Labrador, her name is Saee. She is 14 years old and the other one is a purebred tricolor Beagle, She is Jui and is 8 years old. They mean the world to me. They understand pretty much everything that I say to them. The respond to my love. I am their Baba. They wait on me when it’s time for me to return home in the evening. I usually tell them in advance about my business travel out of Bangalore or if I was going to be late returning home but one day, I forgot. I had to go for business dinner. I was scheduled to return quite late. That evening, they did not sleep, they waited by the window in my drawing room and kept looking out to see if they saw me coming. Finally around 1030 pm when I returned they jumped all over me and licked my face for good ten minutes as if to ask me why I was late. I resonated with her thoughts in that story exceptionally well.
I liked her story on “Rituparno Ghosh.” I have been his fan for many years and after his demise, read quite a lot about him. Reading his story was disturbing because it articulated the obstacles one had to undergo if one did not fit the straight jacket in which the world expect one to fit. In fact, I have a friend who now lives in California. He relocated there several years ago just because he had no acceptance from society for who he was. I have often wondered why his orientation was a topic of concern for the rest of the society he lived in.
I also liked her story “Itumelani.” It made me think about one’s desires and how we associate tiny situations and things to our inner most desires and wants. Wonderfully written.
I liked her article about suicide. I completely agree with her that many of us have had thoughts like the way she has presented them. I was shocked to read something in that article. When I went to Niagara in the year 2014, I had the exact same thoughts as hers. I was not sad or disturbed but the elation of seeing something so spectacular took over my mind. The moment passed by and I did not think about it much. However, as I sat back in my bus to cross Canada border I wondered if I was insane to have had thought like that. I laughed at myself and felt I was weird but today, when I read her thoughts, I knew that people could have such thoughts and that I was not alone in feeling the way I had felt then. By the way, I have seen a similar pond in Dhamapur in the Konkan area. It was eerie and mysterious.
Lastly, I want to tell her that her rendition about her father’s ailment stayed with me for few days. I had a friend in my university in the US, whose mother died because of the same ailment. I have seen it all from close quarters. I know it is quite an arduous task to deal with those thoughts.
Most importantly, each of her articles came across as something that left me with a positive thought. That was quite impressive. Let me once again congratulate her on such a wonderful compilation and on presenting vividly, succinctly the collection of her thoughts to her readers. She has indeed communicated them very well. Kudos!
July 17, 2018
मी अमृता सुभाष चे आर्टिकल्स लोकसत्ता मध्ये वाचत आले होते. मनाला भुरळ वैगेरे हे शब्द मी नाही वापरणार. सरळ मनात जे काही विचार येतील त्यांना शब्दबंध करून केलेली हि मांडणी. कित्येकदा मनात काहीतरी वादळी चालू असत आणि वर वर सगळं शांत. बरेचसे लेख सुटले आणि मग हे पुस्तक मिळावं आणि वाचून काढावं असं वाटलं, पुसत मिळालं आणि वाचलं हि. पुस्तक वाचताना आपल्या मनातलेच शब्द लेखिकेने लिहिलेत असा वाटत राहत. वाचनीय.
March 4, 2017
Good book. Amruta has a distinct style of writing. To me she came across as unpretentious and transparent person. At times she does reveals a depressive mind but then she consciously leaps out of it. Considering her other talents ( acting ) she comes out as an impressive writer.
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