All the beautiful daughters of Mara by Ashok Aatreya (books to read for 12 year olds .TXT) š
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A novel written by Ashok atreya is an attempt of embodying the para-psychological, ethereal and day-to-day experiences of the hero. The Key to this novel is very clearly explained in the 54th chapter with the same title " All the beautiful Daughters of Mara", in which Anand, the hero, tells us the story of his previous births, where he visualizes the past and present where his unfulfilled desire for eternal love accentuates with unending lust for life, get freely expressed.
The myth of "All the beautiful Daughters of Mara" existing parallel to his own span of life, of which only present is visible and the rest of the episodes in his previous births, Anand experiences as and when he encounters them.
The overall development of this novel could only be examined with the help of a "Tantrik-based parody", where not only the sequence of Janma-Janmantra is added for an additional fervor, exposing the hero's passion and lust through and through but also his predicament of being a helpless victim in the hands of mystic destiny.
The author has picked up an apparently mystic theme. Unconsciously, as he has inherited the tradition of religion, Indian mythology and Tantra from his ancestors, but the beauty of the work lies in the fact of a secular approach to life omitting the bondages of caste and creed. In this background, this work of fiction becomes para-modern!
The libidinal instinct of Anand in his present and previous births, attaches with himself a number of voluptuous women belonging to various ethnic backgrounds. Tantra, as a distinctive sect of Hindu worship tradition, has very significant role of "Panch-Makars" and, therefore, the Omni-presence of women around the hero is the internal necessity of the theme, which results into many neo-vam-margi experience. This is, thus, a novel-departure in the field of contemporary Indian English writing.
The novelist has very aptly casted valid comment on the degeneration of present political scenario by elevating the police -shooter, an encounter-specialist to the supreme office of the President. (this is just like The then President of Pakistan General Parvez Musharraf (Who started his career as an ordinary military commando) These are not mere fiction fantasies but all around us, we find such absurdities taking shape !
The sub-titles attributed to 58 chapters lucidly establish the internal consistency of unbelievable episodes full of love, lust and crime, tied with an unseen threads of births and rebirths.
Naturally such a theme has interminable prospective of constructing stories -interesting and unending, of which Ashok Aatreya, as a fiction writer, has all the potential.
The myth of "All the beautiful Daughters of Mara" existing parallel to his own span of life, of which only present is visible and the rest of the episodes in his previous births, Anand experiences as and when he encounters them.
The overall development of this novel could only be examined with the help of a "Tantrik-based parody", where not only the sequence of Janma-Janmantra is added for an additional fervor, exposing the hero's passion and lust through and through but also his predicament of being a helpless victim in the hands of mystic destiny.
The author has picked up an apparently mystic theme. Unconsciously, as he has inherited the tradition of religion, Indian mythology and Tantra from his ancestors, but the beauty of the work lies in the fact of a secular approach to life omitting the bondages of caste and creed. In this background, this work of fiction becomes para-modern!
The libidinal instinct of Anand in his present and previous births, attaches with himself a number of voluptuous women belonging to various ethnic backgrounds. Tantra, as a distinctive sect of Hindu worship tradition, has very significant role of "Panch-Makars" and, therefore, the Omni-presence of women around the hero is the internal necessity of the theme, which results into many neo-vam-margi experience. This is, thus, a novel-departure in the field of contemporary Indian English writing.
The novelist has very aptly casted valid comment on the degeneration of present political scenario by elevating the police -shooter, an encounter-specialist to the supreme office of the President. (this is just like The then President of Pakistan General Parvez Musharraf (Who started his career as an ordinary military commando) These are not mere fiction fantasies but all around us, we find such absurdities taking shape !
The sub-titles attributed to 58 chapters lucidly establish the internal consistency of unbelievable episodes full of love, lust and crime, tied with an unseen threads of births and rebirths.
Naturally such a theme has interminable prospective of constructing stories -interesting and unending, of which Ashok Aatreya, as a fiction writer, has all the potential.
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her parents, since she was little bit worried that if Anandās past life is brought in light before her parents that may cause the cancellation of their marriage. She also did not expose the matter earlier before her parents and it was always kept secretā¦ rather it was just between him and her and that all caused tension in Anand In Anand's mind the latest meeting with Shaheen and Asad in Ajmer was also creating disturbance. He felt himself again guilty of not telling anything about the event, which brought before him, a very different image of the most liberal couple from Pakistan, with them he enjoyed three days, which became unforgettable, for ever... rather he, even did not think in his dream that such relations of husband and wife are possible on the earth. Asad took him very-very friendly and gave total freedom to Shaheen to meet him (the old friend from whom she had a son) what a beautiful, bold, courageous and clear understanding was growing between Asad and Shaheen, it was beyond his imagination... but on the opposite side, he felt very much oppressed, in labyrinth. He proved himself as the absconder from the realities, coward and weak, so for as the transparency in the relations was there between him and Bhairvi was concerned. They both perhaps did not attain that maturity as was seen and expressed in the life and actions of Asad and Shaheen.
Since he wanted that before marriage there should be total transparency between both the parties and he also thought that on the part of Bhairvi, it was not right that she kept her parents in dark. Anand thought again and again that he would try his best to take Bhairviās father in confidence and would tell him the realities of his past lifeā¦ at the same time he did not want to go against the feeling of Bhairviā¦ rather it was such a perplexing situation that Anand never thought ofā¦ and that too in his life became a problem, the solution was not visible even at a far end.
Anand was in the Post Office. His mind was busy in planning for his next progamme with Bhairviā¦but in his heart was dancing yesterdayās attractive white swanā¦the event that distracted his path once again. ..And he was seeing the possibilities of meeting both Bhairvi and the new wondrous beautyā¦a swan in the group of ducksā¦and to his surprise both of his targets were approaching close to him from opposite direction..Bhairvi getting down from a three-wheeler and his lady swan from the other side ascending the slope.Anand became a middle man in a state of pendulum. He could not dare to look in the direction of his point of lesser return, moved swiftly towards Bhairvi to give her a warm reception. She was coming with her slow steps. She was looking very attractive and sensitive and was in her, unusual printed blue-black silk Sari and blouse and not with her formal nursing dress. Her face was gracefully expressing her inner peaceful self.
āAnand do you have some change? Bhairvi asked
āYesā¦ how much?
āGive him six rupees.ā
Anand paid the taxi man.
āNow Iāll take your five minute moreā¦I go and comeā¦simply for formality. I'll show my face in the officeā¦ I have already taken permission from our headā¦you please wait here or come with me in my departmentā¦āBhairvi told him lot within a very short time..
āO.K, please take your timeā¦Iāll be comfortable here onlyā¦He permitted her to rush since he also thought to at least have one more close-up glance of his new discoveryā¦She was moving like a star among her friends in a very informal mannerā¦ her backā¦ sharply focused within his reach also. Without giving a second thought, Anand steamed off, took little fast stepsā¦and followed his adventure...he passed through the ducksā¦ not looking at the targetā¦ posing himself as a busy man, Anand took some more fast stepsā¦ reaching at a point below a tree took his position there just to have a full-flagged glance of the girl swanā¦ while she was turning towards right ā¦and according to his calculations everything just happened on the same way as he conceived. He could not stop himself to follow her more closely by that time almost touching her body he moved little fast. She took his notice and another nurse pointedly remarked-āSee Dā your hero has come againā¦ the group laughed...they all entered into the Nursing Hostel and disappeared for a whileā¦ but after break-up one section appeared on the long balconyā¦ his target ,the lady-Swan was not visible.. Anand waited for one or two minutes but after realizing his position and the Bhairviās relation, he immediately detached himself from that place and moved fast so as to reach at the post office before Bhairvi found him disappearedā¦He almost ran to touch the point where Bhairvi had already reached.
āWhat happenedā¦ you had gone somewhere? She asked him pointedly.
āPerhaps I have lost my valuable Parkerā¦I just went for search..Anand told a plain lieā¦
āOh, bad. Shall we search again? She enquired.
āI donāt see any possibility nowā¦Itās gone with the wind.
āO.K, its upto youā¦Now what I decided.I think now we can move to your hotel ā¦there we may plan for our next moves-ā she told.
āNo problemā¦āAnand walked down with her for some time then called for a taxi . ..Both of them reached hotel Capital.Anand got the key for his room from the receptionā¦ ordered for single- tray of teaā¦and without using the lift they reached the second floor...opened the roomā¦and settledā¦
It was a good double-bed room.Bhairvi took the window side sofa.Anand felt comfortable on his bedā¦both were silent for a while then Bhairvi came forward..She asked Anand-āI think youāll be here for a weekā¦ā
āYes I thought so but after favorable talk with your father I felt relaxed I think I could go back and join duty.āAnand told.
āSo you want to relieve me soonā¦Isānt that right?
āI can live here till you likeā¦but you know after all both of us are in new jobsā¦I donāt know about your officeā¦In my case my management donāt believe in granting leaves ...and since I am in a very senior position they depend on me very muchā¦āAnand explained his problemā¦
āYes I can understand your positionā¦Bhairvi accepted his version.
There was knock on the doorā¦Tea boy entered in the roomā¦he kept the tray properly and left the room.Anand brought Bhairvi to his opposite bed. He did a little exercise for that ā¦stood from his bedā¦told Bhairvi to be bit freeā¦took her fingers in his fingersā¦ and after a light and smiling hands-up show both settled well in informal setting.Bhairvi served him tea. ...when she was mixing sugar in the tea pot , her earrings diamonds twinkledā¦she put her pallu of light pink Kota-doria sari gracefully on her right shoulder and with her silent but sharp eyeās looked Anand.. Perhaps Anand was waiting for the gesture which has been her most Killing angle.
āWhen ever you at look me like this I feel nervous.āAnand took cup of tea from her hand and looked her with intimate smile.
āAnd when you stare at me like this I feel myself insecured..She gave her point of view on Anandās ideasā¦Both knew at their ends that the path they have chosen culminates finally into a wed-lock and they were happy that some dead-lock came to an end.
āSo you are feeling better in your new job? Bhairvi asked him.
āTo some extent..I am satisfiedā¦but as you know of my natureā¦
And before Anand would tell her more, she with little stress interrupted him sayingāāAnand you have already enjoyed maximum freedom and all that cost us delaying every important descision..For godās sake please tell me no more of your n..a..t..u..r..e..please no more. Now be responsible ā¦ā
āBhairvi I donāt contradict youā¦.I agree for what you saidā¦butā¦
āNo if and butās now in our lifeā¦ take me with you right nowā¦ I canāt wait for you Anand..I canātā¦She was sobbing and put her hands on her eyeāsā¦Anand also felt himself responsible for this delay and for the long indecision. He stood up and gone close to Bhairviā¦ took her head on his left armā¦ from his right hand fingers he attempted to remove her and kissed her first at her fore head and thenā¦her lips.. Bhairvi with little push kept him away from her with hardness in her voice, she told Anand āNo Anand donāt do all this with meā¦sit at your place..! I am all right nowā¦ Anand came back to his positionā¦For some time there was silence in the roomā¦then suddenly Bhairvi got up from her bed gone back to her original sofa paced distantly, put her disturbed pallu of sari at the right position ..just moved inside the bathroom ,washed her face and again came backā¦with changing her tone and trying in vain to become normal, she told Anand just standing like a statueāāAnand I want to go homeā¦please leave me out of hotel..ā
āWhat happened, Bhairvi? Please be comfortable for some timeā¦we both move outā¦but please relax..!ā
āNo Iāll not stay here ...and after a pause she told AnandāO.K you stay here I am going alone. She without waiting for a single second just came out of the room as if she had some strange and strong feeling against Anand.
Anand also came out of the room. Both of them left the hotel premises without talking to one another ā¦Bhairvi was pressurizing continuously to go alone but Anand anyhow managed to call a taxi, he got into it with her and told the taxiwala to take them to New Market, for which she did not oppose. They reached Coffee-house.
āWhat happened to you in hotelā¦why you were so upset? Anand asked her.
āAnand I am really fed-up of this sort of lifeā¦ā She replied.
āWhat sort of life? Anand wanted to know her problem.
āAnand you will leave me alone again and go backā
āBut this time everything is clear from your fatherās side. Do you have any doubt in that?ā
āNo I have no problem from my fatherās side. I feel you have not yet made your parents agreed for this marriageā¦as there is still some stigma in your motherās mind about my being a leapor..āBhairvi opened her card of frustration.
āDear, now there is absolute change in the public-opinion of leprosy and your case is very different as you have very successfully over come the disease by taking regular treatmentā¦You are an exceptional case rather the ideal one and our marriage will be examploryāAnand assured her again and that filled new confidence in her ..
āAnand you are really a different person...I donāt know what you have seen in me. Except full faith in you I have no other base. .āBhairvi put her hand on Anandās hand ā¦There were very few groups in the Coffee-House.
.They discussed about the marriage formal ceremonies to be executed from both sidesā¦and decided to go to some movie in the nearby Rang Mahal takies..Both of them did not know what picture was running, but after reading the News Paper they felt happy. The movie was Mera Nam Joker, a grand Raj Kapoorās Productionā¦
The movie was very good having a philosophical base. .Bhairvi was moved by the character the hero RajKapoor played. .It was a marvelous love story with humanitarian base and international appeal. The music and lyrics were fantastic that specially impressed Anand. Overall the film was successfully knit around the theme and characters which was the beauty of R.K.banners. After the film Bhairvi took Anand to the lake connecting the garden and both of them talked in detail about the time passed. The days, months and the years gone in waiting, waiting and waiting.
They enjoyed
Since he wanted that before marriage there should be total transparency between both the parties and he also thought that on the part of Bhairvi, it was not right that she kept her parents in dark. Anand thought again and again that he would try his best to take Bhairviās father in confidence and would tell him the realities of his past lifeā¦ at the same time he did not want to go against the feeling of Bhairviā¦ rather it was such a perplexing situation that Anand never thought ofā¦ and that too in his life became a problem, the solution was not visible even at a far end.
Anand was in the Post Office. His mind was busy in planning for his next progamme with Bhairviā¦but in his heart was dancing yesterdayās attractive white swanā¦the event that distracted his path once again. ..And he was seeing the possibilities of meeting both Bhairvi and the new wondrous beautyā¦a swan in the group of ducksā¦and to his surprise both of his targets were approaching close to him from opposite direction..Bhairvi getting down from a three-wheeler and his lady swan from the other side ascending the slope.Anand became a middle man in a state of pendulum. He could not dare to look in the direction of his point of lesser return, moved swiftly towards Bhairvi to give her a warm reception. She was coming with her slow steps. She was looking very attractive and sensitive and was in her, unusual printed blue-black silk Sari and blouse and not with her formal nursing dress. Her face was gracefully expressing her inner peaceful self.
āAnand do you have some change? Bhairvi asked
āYesā¦ how much?
āGive him six rupees.ā
Anand paid the taxi man.
āNow Iāll take your five minute moreā¦I go and comeā¦simply for formality. I'll show my face in the officeā¦ I have already taken permission from our headā¦you please wait here or come with me in my departmentā¦āBhairvi told him lot within a very short time..
āO.K, please take your timeā¦Iāll be comfortable here onlyā¦He permitted her to rush since he also thought to at least have one more close-up glance of his new discoveryā¦She was moving like a star among her friends in a very informal mannerā¦ her backā¦ sharply focused within his reach also. Without giving a second thought, Anand steamed off, took little fast stepsā¦and followed his adventure...he passed through the ducksā¦ not looking at the targetā¦ posing himself as a busy man, Anand took some more fast stepsā¦ reaching at a point below a tree took his position there just to have a full-flagged glance of the girl swanā¦ while she was turning towards right ā¦and according to his calculations everything just happened on the same way as he conceived. He could not stop himself to follow her more closely by that time almost touching her body he moved little fast. She took his notice and another nurse pointedly remarked-āSee Dā your hero has come againā¦ the group laughed...they all entered into the Nursing Hostel and disappeared for a whileā¦ but after break-up one section appeared on the long balconyā¦ his target ,the lady-Swan was not visible.. Anand waited for one or two minutes but after realizing his position and the Bhairviās relation, he immediately detached himself from that place and moved fast so as to reach at the post office before Bhairvi found him disappearedā¦He almost ran to touch the point where Bhairvi had already reached.
āWhat happenedā¦ you had gone somewhere? She asked him pointedly.
āPerhaps I have lost my valuable Parkerā¦I just went for search..Anand told a plain lieā¦
āOh, bad. Shall we search again? She enquired.
āI donāt see any possibility nowā¦Itās gone with the wind.
āO.K, its upto youā¦Now what I decided.I think now we can move to your hotel ā¦there we may plan for our next moves-ā she told.
āNo problemā¦āAnand walked down with her for some time then called for a taxi . ..Both of them reached hotel Capital.Anand got the key for his room from the receptionā¦ ordered for single- tray of teaā¦and without using the lift they reached the second floor...opened the roomā¦and settledā¦
It was a good double-bed room.Bhairvi took the window side sofa.Anand felt comfortable on his bedā¦both were silent for a while then Bhairvi came forward..She asked Anand-āI think youāll be here for a weekā¦ā
āYes I thought so but after favorable talk with your father I felt relaxed I think I could go back and join duty.āAnand told.
āSo you want to relieve me soonā¦Isānt that right?
āI can live here till you likeā¦but you know after all both of us are in new jobsā¦I donāt know about your officeā¦In my case my management donāt believe in granting leaves ...and since I am in a very senior position they depend on me very muchā¦āAnand explained his problemā¦
āYes I can understand your positionā¦Bhairvi accepted his version.
There was knock on the doorā¦Tea boy entered in the roomā¦he kept the tray properly and left the room.Anand brought Bhairvi to his opposite bed. He did a little exercise for that ā¦stood from his bedā¦told Bhairvi to be bit freeā¦took her fingers in his fingersā¦ and after a light and smiling hands-up show both settled well in informal setting.Bhairvi served him tea. ...when she was mixing sugar in the tea pot , her earrings diamonds twinkledā¦she put her pallu of light pink Kota-doria sari gracefully on her right shoulder and with her silent but sharp eyeās looked Anand.. Perhaps Anand was waiting for the gesture which has been her most Killing angle.
āWhen ever you at look me like this I feel nervous.āAnand took cup of tea from her hand and looked her with intimate smile.
āAnd when you stare at me like this I feel myself insecured..She gave her point of view on Anandās ideasā¦Both knew at their ends that the path they have chosen culminates finally into a wed-lock and they were happy that some dead-lock came to an end.
āSo you are feeling better in your new job? Bhairvi asked him.
āTo some extent..I am satisfiedā¦but as you know of my natureā¦
And before Anand would tell her more, she with little stress interrupted him sayingāāAnand you have already enjoyed maximum freedom and all that cost us delaying every important descision..For godās sake please tell me no more of your n..a..t..u..r..e..please no more. Now be responsible ā¦ā
āBhairvi I donāt contradict youā¦.I agree for what you saidā¦butā¦
āNo if and butās now in our lifeā¦ take me with you right nowā¦ I canāt wait for you Anand..I canātā¦She was sobbing and put her hands on her eyeāsā¦Anand also felt himself responsible for this delay and for the long indecision. He stood up and gone close to Bhairviā¦ took her head on his left armā¦ from his right hand fingers he attempted to remove her and kissed her first at her fore head and thenā¦her lips.. Bhairvi with little push kept him away from her with hardness in her voice, she told Anand āNo Anand donāt do all this with meā¦sit at your place..! I am all right nowā¦ Anand came back to his positionā¦For some time there was silence in the roomā¦then suddenly Bhairvi got up from her bed gone back to her original sofa paced distantly, put her disturbed pallu of sari at the right position ..just moved inside the bathroom ,washed her face and again came backā¦with changing her tone and trying in vain to become normal, she told Anand just standing like a statueāāAnand I want to go homeā¦please leave me out of hotel..ā
āWhat happened, Bhairvi? Please be comfortable for some timeā¦we both move outā¦but please relax..!ā
āNo Iāll not stay here ...and after a pause she told AnandāO.K you stay here I am going alone. She without waiting for a single second just came out of the room as if she had some strange and strong feeling against Anand.
Anand also came out of the room. Both of them left the hotel premises without talking to one another ā¦Bhairvi was pressurizing continuously to go alone but Anand anyhow managed to call a taxi, he got into it with her and told the taxiwala to take them to New Market, for which she did not oppose. They reached Coffee-house.
āWhat happened to you in hotelā¦why you were so upset? Anand asked her.
āAnand I am really fed-up of this sort of lifeā¦ā She replied.
āWhat sort of life? Anand wanted to know her problem.
āAnand you will leave me alone again and go backā
āBut this time everything is clear from your fatherās side. Do you have any doubt in that?ā
āNo I have no problem from my fatherās side. I feel you have not yet made your parents agreed for this marriageā¦as there is still some stigma in your motherās mind about my being a leapor..āBhairvi opened her card of frustration.
āDear, now there is absolute change in the public-opinion of leprosy and your case is very different as you have very successfully over come the disease by taking regular treatmentā¦You are an exceptional case rather the ideal one and our marriage will be examploryāAnand assured her again and that filled new confidence in her ..
āAnand you are really a different person...I donāt know what you have seen in me. Except full faith in you I have no other base. .āBhairvi put her hand on Anandās hand ā¦There were very few groups in the Coffee-House.
.They discussed about the marriage formal ceremonies to be executed from both sidesā¦and decided to go to some movie in the nearby Rang Mahal takies..Both of them did not know what picture was running, but after reading the News Paper they felt happy. The movie was Mera Nam Joker, a grand Raj Kapoorās Productionā¦
The movie was very good having a philosophical base. .Bhairvi was moved by the character the hero RajKapoor played. .It was a marvelous love story with humanitarian base and international appeal. The music and lyrics were fantastic that specially impressed Anand. Overall the film was successfully knit around the theme and characters which was the beauty of R.K.banners. After the film Bhairvi took Anand to the lake connecting the garden and both of them talked in detail about the time passed. The days, months and the years gone in waiting, waiting and waiting.
They enjoyed
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