Saturday, December 18, 2010

apsara is a flawed book

I recently read Apsara by Surya kant Tripathi Nirala and I must say that i had great expectations from the book. The hindi was flawless and the sentence creation was amazing. But the poet went overboard in describing the beauty of heroine and went wrong in making the heroine a pure one despite being a prostitute. The plot picked up pace later on and the way the poet described some scenes were mind blowing. The end was swift and I don't know why I was dreading that the end would be on a tragic note and that's exactly what the poet did. All in all, I found the book to be flawed. Nevertheless, it was a good reading and some of the characters would stay with me for some time. The concept of Apsara or someone very beautiful is akin to the concept of anima and animus by Carl Jung. The same concept was also discussed in detail in Amrit aur Vish. Looks like this concept was very popular among writers some time back.
On the office front, the scene has turned bleak. After the euphoric month of november, when i seriously thought that i would reap rewards for my hard work, I was given rude jolt in the month of december. I need to change my circumstances but I am floundering. Must find a way out of this self created mess.

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