AUTHOR : AMIT MAJMUDAR
GENRE : LITERARY AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION
PUBLISHER : HARPER COLLINS INDIA
BOOK BUY LINK : https://www.amazon.in/Map-Scissors-Amit-Majmudar
AN extra ordinary efforts of an writer and his
courage and guts to use the familiar and great personalities of the two nations
of the world, one being the world’s largest democracy, is a task that definitely
commands a huge appreciation.
Amit Majmudar, the first Poet Laureate of Ohio, and
a challenging nuclear radiologist apart from award-winning poet, is the author
of this book which is critically acclaimed with the historical facts of the two
nations.
This book has been published by Harper Collins
Publishers India, in this year 2022. The book has six parts totally making up
to 330 pages. Each part has an
individual title along with the quotes from Plutarch’s Parallel lives which
render the easy under-standing about the forthcoming chapters.
The theme or the plot of the novel only is a true thing or a factual evidence which made a remarkable turn in the life of the two nations and its people.
How all these happened or might have happened? The answers we all search in our history,
political science or more precisely in our civics books dealing with the
politics or the Indian political issues.
An idea to develop a plot basing on a true incident
has already finds place in the world of Literature.
With particular reference to Sanskrit Literature,
there are many poets who have taken a part from a mythology, an Epic or
Upanishads and have spun it around with developing various themes, morals, and
other different dimensions to a particular theme or a concept.
This is termed as AITHIHASIKAM in Sanskrit. More of
it is a value added or adding option to a vast composition with a twist or
viewing or dealing it with another angle.
This concept is actually adopted in the south Indian film Industry where the films viz., Rama-Anjaneya Yuddham and Krishna-Arjuna Yuddham picturise the characters from Epics with fictional anecdotes. Reading the book - THE MAP AND THE SCISSORS brings back and revives the old concept of Aithihaasikam.
This book makes a refreshing read with a political and historical issues dealt in a refining fashion. The novel throws light on the language, accent, and its pronunciations with regard to English, Hindustani, Gujarathi, and Urdu.
The impact of language, religion and caste on those
times and how they managed to tackle issues like untouchability and
superstition are delicately handled.
Studying abroad, learning a foreign language and
having a command of on it and its effects and side effects in addressing
gatherings and meetings during the freedom struggle is put forth in an elegant
way.
The programs like Satyagraha, Dandi March, Non-
cooperation movement and the sudden
decision to have a separate nation and how the germination of the word “partition”
stems ups is thoroughly brought out in a professional way.
The novel takes the readers on travel to places
like Paris, London, South Africa along with many parts of India. The
communities and cultures of different people and its blend with the lives of
the people of India makes a point to ponder.
The naming of the new nation as PAKISTAN and a
reason behind its name and the meaning is finely coded by the author in a more
justifying method.
The book deals with the bygone era of the two
nations and the way they formed or split into two. The reasons behind it and
the way the people managed to adjust to the changes and the role of characters
like Gandhi, Jinnah, Fatima, Patel, Nehru and Iqbal are successful in keeping
the readers hooked in.
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Nice review. Looks like an interesting book.
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