Khoj
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Khoj
Soft Cover
₹350/-
The search for a life stuck in the wheel of time
Uttam Mevada
Many generations of villages have grown up watching the snake charmer’s flute playing and the snake-snake dance. If the snake charmer does not set foot in the city or village on Nagpanchami, then the sight of the snake god is rare. Many Hindi films have used the tune of the flute to entertain people with a modern form of flute playing and snake dance. We have seen many men and women dance like snakes on every happy occasion when a tune of the flute is played. Today, the game of snakes and snakelets, and monkeys, has to be stopped under the government’s Wildlife Protection Act, as per a law. So the unused flute-pipe instrument has also broken and become useless. This snake charmer is still in the same class in the twenty-first century, a nomadic, wandering, nomadic tribe. The only difference is that he now has neither a snake nor a flute to play to entertain the snake. He could not study, he wandered all his life, generation after generation, his own kind is nomadic, isn’t it! Devraj’s young second wife, Urvashi, who challenges the evils of the world, gets caught in the clutches of the law and goes to jail. Her employment was snatched away by one section of the law. And by another section of the law, her life’s tune was lost. The tune is lost. This story of the poor man’s struggle, his search to get back the lost tune in life, is this novella ‘Khoj’.
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