Name of this Hindi writer included in Booker’s short list
A few days ago, when Booker’s long list came, the first novel of a Hindi writer appeared in it. It was learned that the English translation of Gitanjali Shree’s novel ‘Ret Samadhi’ is included in the 13 works selected for the Tomb of Sand Booker Long List. Suddenly a lot of people started asking who is this Gitanjali Shri? Of course, in this question also there is an irony of both Hindi society and literature. They are not as close to each other as they should be.
However, back to Gitanjali Shree. She is a well-known story writer and novelist of the Hindi world. After his first novel ‘My’, his novel ‘Hamara Shahar Us Baras’ came in the nineties. It is one of the most serious novels of our times focused on communalism. A few years later, his next novel ‘Tirohit’ came. This will probably be the first novel on female homosexuality in Hindi. But this novel actually talks about the relationship between the three characters very subtly. Trying to read it from a sensational point of view would be frustrating itself, because the whole novel is so woven into it that it can only be penetrated with great care. His novels ‘The Empty Space’ were also read, and now a few years ago ‘Sand Samadhi’ has been published.
Geetanjali Shree has also written stories in one period and there are many touching-psychological stories in her story collections like ‘Vairagya’ and ‘Yahan Elephant Lives’. Geetanjali Shree is actually a complex storyteller who brings together the outer and inner worlds. If you try to find exciting elements in his writing, want a captivating story, a fast paced sequence, you will be disappointed. But if you want to embark on a deep and sensitive journey, if you need to recognize the intertwining layers between outside noise and inner silence, if you have to delve into the transitions and pauses, then perhaps his writings can help you. .
Gitanjali Shree’s husband Sudhirchandra is a well-known historian – especially his work on Gandhi’s vision is noteworthy. These days this sensitive-intellectual family lives in Gurgaon. By the way, his house is also in Delhi. Although this writer was told by Sudhirchandra in a long interview recently that he has many places in the world – from Mainpuri to Paris – and he considers himself a resident of the nineteenth century, a migrant of the twentieth century.
Gitanjali Shree herself is a watchful watchdog of her time – she has acquired the skill to recognize the shapeless ends of the upper and gross forms by looking inside them and sharpened by her language. We can only wish that if the Booker Honor is announced on 26 May, it should be for him. But even if she is not, she is a great and sensitive writer of our times. Writers grow not by awards, but by their creations – awards are simply a means of taking them to new realms of recognition.
