V. S. Khandekar

THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES V. S. KHANDEKAR S SHORT STORIES WRITTEN DURING 1971 TO 1973. THEY ARE A PURE MIXTURE OF IMAGINATION, FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS. THE STORIES IN "VIKASAN HAVE A PURE YET SACRED STRENGTH OF ENTERTAINMENT. THEY LINGER INTO OUR MINDS FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. THEY MAKE US VERY INTROSPECTIVE. THESE STORIES REFLECT NOT ONLY KHANDEKAR S ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH BUT ALSO REFLECT HIS DEEP PONDERING OVER LIFE. THESE STORIES PICTURE THE CHARACTERS THAT ARE NOW QUITE OLD.THEY HAVE ACCEPTED THE DUALITY OF THEIR PRESENT LIVES UNWILLINGLY, BUT THE MEMORIES OF THEIR SWEET PAST LIVES LINGER IN THEIR MINDS. IN A WAY, THESE STORIES ARE THE LIGHT HOUSE FOR THE FUTURE GENERATION, BURNING WITH THE OIL OF EXPERIENCE AND MEMORIES OF THE OLDER GENERATION. THESE STORIES TRY TO TEACH US THAT GRIHASTA DHARMA WHICH IS THE THIRD STAGE OF LIFE IS ACTUALLY REBIRTH.NOBODY EVER REMEMBERS PAST LIFE. BEFORE MARRIAGE, OUR LIVES ARE CAREFREE LIKE THAT OF BUTTERFLIES, MARRIAGE CHANGES US INTO BIRDS, BUILDING NESTLES FOR THE YOUNG ONES, CARING FOR THEM. WE GET INVOLVED INTO THE ADJUSTMENTS WHILE TRYING TO GET THROUGH OUR NEW ROLES, AUTOMATICALLY FORGETTING OUR PAST LIVES. IS NOT MARRIAGE A REBIRTH AS IT MAKES US FORGET OUR PAST LIFE?

THE TWO WORLD WARS THAT TOOK PLACE IN THIS CENTURY ARE TWO HISTORICAL MAJOR EVENTS. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THEY REVOKED REFORMATION; SOCIAL AS WELL AS CULTURAL. INDIA IS NOT AN EXCEPTION TO THIS, AS MAHARASHTRA IS A PART OF INDIA SO IT IS NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT MAHARASHTRA IS ALSO UNDERGOING DRASTIC REFORMATION. AT THE TIME OF SECOND WORLD WAR, THERE WAS YOUNG GENERATION WORKING AROUND. THEY WERE INSPIRED WITH AN AIM. THEY WERE BORN AT THE TIME OF FIRST WORLD WAR, THEY WERE IMPRESSED BY TILAK S IDEALS INITIALLY AND LATER ON THOSE OF GANDHIS. THEY WERE MARCHING STEADILY TOWARDS THEIR AIMS. THEY DIDN T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEIR DOMESTIC OR FINANCIAL GRUDGES. THEY WANTED INDEPENDENCE. ABHAY IS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS YOUNG GENERATION. HE IS STIMULATED HE IS ALL SET FOR REVOLUTION WHEN HIS SENSITIVE MIND NOTICES THE STRUGGLE FOR REMAINING ALIVE, WHEN HE WITNESSES THE CONDITION OF MANY WHOSE LIFE RESEMBLES THAT OF AN UNCLAIMED CHILD IN A GARBAGE PIT. WHEN HE SEES THEM WALLOWING IN POVERTY HE MAKES UP HIS MIND TO WALK TOWARDS REVOLUTION. MAHARASHTRA IN DISTINCTLY DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS; ONE IS OF THOSE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE LOSING THEIR MORALS, THEIR AIMS, AND THE OTHER IS OF THOSE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE WHO ARE INTELLIGENT AND HAVE NOT LOST THEIR SENTIMENTS. ABHAY REPRESENTS THE INTELLIGENT AND SENSITIVE CLASS. MANY OF THE READERS WILL FIND ABHAY ONE OF THEM.

'SUSHILECHA DEV' IS A NOVEL BY V.M.JOSHI WHICH IS EDITED BY V.S.KHANDEKAR. ENGLISH EDUCATIONS BREAKS THE VARIOUS BARRIERS IN INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM. IT HAS GREAT ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN INDIAN WOMAN. THIS NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF THIS MODERN INDIAN WOMAN. IT COVERS THE WIDE PICTURE OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY .

A HUMOUR BASED COLLECTION BY V.S. KHANDEKAR REFLECTING THE CHANGES IN SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. THE AUTHOR HAS MINUTELY OBSERVED AND QUOTED HIS THOUGHTS ON 'THE PRESENT SCENARIO'. HE AIMS AT GIVING A PUSH TO THE DETERRED FAITH AND IDEAS. HUMOUR IS NOT A 'FORM', IT IS AN ATTITUDE. IT HAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD, IT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED. THOSE WHO WISH TO UNDERSTAND THIS WILL BE BENEFITTED BY THIS COLLECTION. IT IS A WONDERFUL COCKTAIL OF INNOVATIVE DRAMATIZATION IN DIALOGUE FORM. IT IS A TRUE MONOLOGUE BY A LITTERATEUR. 'गाढवाची गीता आणि गाजराची पुंगी' हा वि.स.खांडेकरांनी विनोदी शैलीत केलेल्या लेखनाचा संग्रह. विनोदी लेखांमधून खांडेकर समाजबदल टिपतात, आपली निरीक्षणं नोंदवतात. 'वर्तमानावर केलेलं भाष्य' असं या लेखनाचं स्वरूप आहे विसंगत झालेल्या श्रद्धा नि कल्पनांना धक्का देण्याच्या हेतूने झालेले हे लेखन होय. विनोद हा 'फॉर्म' नसून 'वृत्ती' आहे, ज्यांना समूजन घ्यायचं आहे त्यांच्याकरिता सदर पुस्तक वस्तुपाठ ठरावे असे आहे. यात नाट्यछटेची कलात्मकता नि एकांकिकेची संवाद शैली याचं सुंदर मिश्रण आहे. एका साहित्यिक चिंतकाचं 'स्वगत' 'प्रकट' होणं काय असतं ते हे लेखन समजावतं.

A COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATION FROM A CRITIQUE'S POINT OF VIEW, THIS A COMPILATION OF TWENTY-ONE ARTICLES. KHANDEKAR ADVOCATES MARATHI LANGUAGE THROUGH 'SARASWATI MANDIRATIL DIWANI DAVA'. HIS 'LAGHUKATHA' AND 'MARATHI LAGHUKATHA' ALLOW US TO UNDERSTAND HOW MARATHI AS A LANGUAGE AND AS LITERATURE GAINED GROUNDS POST ENGLISH ERA. HE HAS ALSO SCRUTINIZED HIS OWN WORK SUCH AS 'YAYATI', 'ULKA' AND 'KANCHANMRUG'. HIS THOUGHTS ON LITERARY FESTIVAL-SAHITYA SAMMELAN GIVES FOOD FOR OUR THINKING. ALL HIS ARTICLES BRING THE BEST OUT OF HIM. HIS COMMAND OVER POETRY, HUMOUR, SCIENCE ETC. IS WORTH PRAISING. THEY ARE WITNESS OF HIS INDUSTRIOUS NATURE, EMBRACING AND ACCEPTING TENDENCY, LOVE FOR MARATHI LANGUAGE AND IN DEPTH KNOWLEDGE. HE HIMSELF HAS BEEN AN IDEAL FOR MANY. THE COMING GENERATIONS WILL CERTAINLY BE BENEFITTED BY HIS ARTICLES. 'प्रज्ञा आणि प्रतिभा' (भाग-२) हा वि.स.खांडेकरांचा प्रातिनिधिक समीक्षात्मक लेखांचा संग्रह आहे. यात एकूण एकवीस समीक्षात्मक लेख आहेत. 'सरस्वती मंदिरातील दिवाणी दावा' या लेखातून खांडेकर मराठी भाषेची बिनतोड वकिली करतात, तर अव्वल इंग्रजी कालखंडानंतर मराठी भाषा व साहित्यास स्वबळ व स्वचेहरा प्राप्त कसा झाला, ते 'लघुकथा' आणि 'मराठी लघुकथा' या दोन लेखांतून स्पष्ट करतात. तसेच त्यांच्या स्वत च्या 'ययाति', 'उल्का', 'कांचनमृग' या कादंबऱ्यांवरही त्यांनी लेख लिहिले आहेत. साहित्य संमेलनांवरही त्यांनी भाष्य केलं आहे. तर हे सगळेच लेख खांडेकरांची काव्य-शास्त्र-विनोदाची जाण, त्यांची अभ्यासू, स्वागतशील वृत्ती, मराठीविषयीचं प्रेम, त्यांचा दांडगा व्यासंग इ. गुणांचं दर्शन घडवणारे आहेत आणि पुढील पिढीसाठी मार्गदर्शक आहेत. ते अवश्य वाचले पाहिजेत.

EACH OF THE TEN DIRECTIONS CARRY GERM FOR STORIES. MANY A TIMES THESE GERMS ARE HIDDEN IN A PECULIAR STYLE IN AN EMOTION, IN AN EXPRESSION, THEY ARE OFTEN HIDDEN IN EXPRESSIONS, IN OCCASIONS, IN DILEMMA. WE ARE SLEEPING ALL THE TIME, ALWAYS PEACEFULLY BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN SOME FEELING TOUCHES US DEEPLY, UNKNOWINGLY, BUT DEFINITELY. THE AWAKENING TAKES A FORM OF A STORY FULL OF EMOTIONS THOUGHTS AND IMAGINATION. THIS SUDDEN TOUCHING RESEMBLES AN UNEXPECTED THORNY PRICK ON A SMOOTH ROAD. THE STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION ARE THE PRODUCTS OF SUCH THOUGHTS. THEY HAVE FLOWN TO MIND UNKNOWINGLY AND HAVE TAKEN A FORM OF STORIES. I HAVE DARED TO PEN THEM DOWN FOR MY BELOVED READERS. I TRULY WISH THAT AT LEAST SOME OF MY CREATIONS SUCCEED IN GIVING IMMENSE HAPPINESS. SOME OF MY CREATION MAY ENLIGHTEN THE MINDS OF READERS, MAY HEIGHTEN THEIR FEELINGS. WHAT ELSE DOES AN AUTHOR WANT? HE WANTS THE SHEER HAPPINESS, THE SATISFACTION WHICH CAN BE EXPERIENCED ONLY IF THE READER IS HAPPY. EVERY TIME WHEN MY WRITING IS PUBLISHED I HAVE THE SAME FEELINGS IN MY MIND.

GREENERY SHORT ESSAY IS A MODIFIED TYPE OF CREATIVE WRITING. IT HAS TWO PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS; WAYWARD IMAGINATION AND THE STRENGTH TO FIND THE TRUE MEANING OF SIMPLE TOPICS. WEIRDNESS AND VARIETY IS ALSO A PART OF SHORT ESSAYS; SOMETIMES IT IS IN THE PRESENTATION, SOMETIMES IT IS IN THE IMAGINATION, SOMETIMES IN THE FEELINGS PRESENTED IN IT, AND YET SOMETIMES IN THE DOCTRINES THAT IT SUGGESTS. THE SOUL OF SUCH WRITING IS THE INSPIRED THOUGHTS ARISEN FROM THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE HUMAN LIFE WITH AFFINITY. THIS TYPE OF WRITING IS SIMILAR TO TRADITION, MAJORITY, SHORT STORIES IN A WAY, THEY DO NOT GIVE MORE STRESS ON CREATIVITY AND LIMITED SELFTALK. THEY SHOW THE WANTONNESS OF IMAGINATION, FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, THE FREENESS OF ONE S WANDERING MIND, IN A SWEET AND FREEHAND WAY, PROVING EMINENTLY PROPER TO THE NAME"SHORT ESSAY . WE HAVE COLLECTED 14 OF SUCH DELIGHTFUL SHORT ESSAYS TO MAKE THE READER MORE FAMILIAR WITH THIS TYPE OF WRITING AND TO BRING HIM CLOSE TO IT. THEY ALL POSSESS THE QUALITY OF BEING ENTICING. WE ARE SURE THAT THE READERS WILL ALSO FEEL THE SAME.

KHANDEKAR WAS A LITTERATEUR WITH MASTER OVER MANY STYLES. HE WAS ALSO FAMOUS FOR HIS PROFOUND WRITING SKILLS. HE DID NOT WRITE WITH THE SHEER PURPOSE OF ENTERTAINMENT. FOR HIM, A THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION WITH A CONCERN FOR THE SOCIETY WAS MORE IMPORTANT. HE STROVE FOR A MODERN SOCIETY. HIS ARTICLES BASED ON HIS OBSERVATIONS OF THE SOCIETY HELD A DEEP KNOWLEDGE WHICH STANDS TO BE TRUE TODAY AS WELL. IT WAS HIS DREAM TO BUILD A COUNTRY BASED ON GANDHISM WHICH WOULD FURTHER ALLOW ALL TO LIVE ON EQUAL GROUNDS. HE WISHED TO ACHIEVE A STRONG FOUNDATION BASED ON SCIENCE, EQUALITY, DIGNITY TO LABOUR, LOVE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND PURITY OF HEART. HE BELIEVED THAT THE MODERN WOMAN WAS EDUCATED AND PRUDENT. HE IMAGINED THE COMMON MAN TO BE FULL OF VIRTUE AND JUSTICE. HE BELIEVED THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE WILLING TO WORK TO THE FULLEST OF THEIR CONTENT. HE WAS INSISTENT UPON IGNITING MINDS IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE NEW INDIA. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO READ AND UNDERSTAND HIS ARTICLES IN ORDER TO GRASP THE DEPTH OF HIS ASPIRATION. ELSE, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CREATE THE NEW INDIA THAT HE SO WISHED TO ESTABLISH.

"IT IS THE UNMENTIONED RULE THAT PROBLEMS THAT ANY HUMAN HAS WOULD NEVER END FOREVER. EVEN THOUGH WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS TODAY, WE HARDLY REALISE THAT THEY END UP IN TO ANOTHER PROBLEMS." "HUMAN LIFE IS BASICALLY NOTHING BUT A CONSTANT DUEL. I CANNOT AVOID THE BITTER TRUTH THAT EVERY MOMENT OUR EMOTIONS BATTLE WITH LUST, CONSCIENCE WITH THOUGHTS AND ETERNAL WITH TEMPORARY. I ALSO AGREE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO TEACH A FEW THINGS RELATED TO DAILY CHAOS OF LIVING TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO BE FOREVER LOST IN PRAISING THE GOD AND THE POWER OF SELF. AT THE SAME TIME, IT IS TRUE THAT A HUMAN LIFE CANNOT BE FULFILLED WITH ONLY VIRTUES OR FOR THAT MATTER ONLY BY EATING FOOD OR SATISFYING THE OTHER NEEDS. THE HUMAN BODY IS IN ITSELF A COMBINATION OF MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALITY. IF AT ALL WE TRY TO REDUCE ONE PART IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXTEND THE OTHER THEN WE AS HUMANS WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO REDUCE OUR SORROWS AND GAIN ETERNAL BLISS. MAINTAINING A BALANCE BETWEEN BODY AND SOUL, POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY, GREED AND RELIGIOUS GOOD, MATERIALISM AND SPIRITUALITY IS THE BASIC AND MOST IMPORTANT NEED OF A HUMAN MIND AND OUR LIVING AS WELL.

A HUMAN NEEDS SOLITUDE BUT NOT LONELINESS. A PERSON WHO IS SURE OF HAVING MANY FRIENDS, WHO WOULD OFTEN REMEMBER HIM, WILL NEVER BECOME LONELY. PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT A HICCUP IS AN INDICATION OF REMEMBRANCE BY SOMEONE NEAR AND DEAR. THE THOUGHT THAT LIES AT THE BASE OF THIS ASSUMPTION IS TO FEEL SECURE BY THE THOUGHT THAT THERE IS SOMEONE WHO LOVES US, CARES FOR US AND REMEMBERS US; ISN'T IT?

THESE ARE THE STORIES WRITTEN BY KHANDEKAR IN THE FIRST DECADE AS A STORY WRITER, BUT WERE NOT SUMMATED. THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES HIS STORY "GHAR KONACHE WHICH WAS NOT READ MUCH AS WAS NOT PUBLISHED BEFORE. IN THE BEGINNING, KHANDEKAR USED TO WRITE VERY DETAILED AND LENGTHY STORIES RESEMBLING THE CHAPTERS OF NOVELS. THE LANGUAGE, THE STYLE, THE SOCIAL LIFE, THE EMOTIONAL STATUS WILL SOUND VERY SWEET TO OUR EARS NOW AFTER ALMOST A CENTENARY. THE EMOTIONAL ASPECT GIVES A CLEAR IDEA ABOUT THE NATURE, LIFE, PROBLEMS AND CULTURE OF THE SOCIETY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY. THOUGH THESE STORIES WERE PEN DOWN BY KHANDEKAR IN HIS EARLY YEARS AS A WRITER, THEY STILL HAVE THE SAME QUALITY. THEY ALL ARE FULL WITH CONFIDENCE TOWARDS LIVING. THESE STORIES FROM THE LAST CENTURY ARE READABLE IN THIS CENTURY ITSELF PROVES THEIR VALUE AS STUDY MATERIAL.

THREE THINGS ARE NEVER-ENDING IN LIFE. SNAKE, ADULTERY AND WAR. MANKIND IS STILL WILD. WE ALL ARE YET VERY WILD. THAT IS THE REASON WHY WARS START ... OTHERWISE... IT IS SAID THAT WHEN A NEEM TREE AGES THEN IT GIVES OUT THE FRAGRANCE LIKE THAT OF SANDAL..CHANDERI SWAPNE IS ALL ABOUT THIS STRUGGLE OF LIFE.

A COMPILATION OF SELECTED STORIES BY DATT RAGHUNATH KAVATHEKAR BY V. S. KHANDEKAR. KAVATHEKAR IS ONE OF THE PIONEERS IN MARATHI LITERATURE. HE WROTE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT INDIAN WOMEN. HIS WRITING MAINLY HAD THE SHADE OF COMPASSION. HE HAS ALWAYS SUCCEEDED IN SHOWING THE BRIGHT AND VIRTUOUS SIDE AS WELL. THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF SEVEN STORIES FROM FOUR OF HIS BOOKS. HIS WRITING IS SIMPLE AND LUCID. IT RESEMBLES THE MILD, SPONTANEOUS AND REFRESHING RAINS. THERE IS NO THUNDERING OF CLOUDS, NO LIGHTENING IN THE SKIES, NO HARSH WINDS AND NO HEAVY RAINFALL. YET, SHRAVANA IS ONE OF THE BEST SEASONS WITH THE PLAY OF RAIN AND LIGHT.

THE BUDS IN MIRAGE THIS IS A COLLECTION OF 28 METEORS WRITTEN BY V. S. KHANDEKAR. MANY A PEOPLE WITH UTTERLY GENUINE AND IMAGINATIVE MIND, AND FROM DIFFERENT TIMES AND PROFESSIONS, RIGHT FROM EOSOP TO GIBRAN HAVE TRIED THEIR HANDS ON THIS FORM OF LITERATURE, THEY TAKE THE CREDIT FOR MAKING THIS SHORT FORM OF LITERATURE SO POPULAR AND INTERESTING.METEOR OFTEN APPEARS TO BE A COVERT INSINUATION. V. S. KHANDEKAR HAS VERY CONSIDERATELY AND CAREFULLY TITLED THIS FORM AS "METEOR .THE TOPICS FOR METEOR HAVE CHANGED WITH THE TIME, BUT METEOR HAS ALWAYS WIDENED ITS CRITICAL SIGHT MAKING IT MORE EXTENSIVE AND UBIQUITOUS. SOMETIMES IT WAS TRIED IN A POETICAL FORM BUT ITS SOUL REMAINED THE SAME. THE OUTER CHANGED APPEARANCE DID NOT CHANGE ITS INNER BEING.THE STRENGTH OF A METEOR LIES IN REVEALING TRUTH VERY SUGGESTIVELY AND IMMACULATELY. IN THIS WORLD, EVERYBODY IS CONTINUOUSLY UNDER A DISGUISE. MOSTLY, BECAUSE OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL SELFISHNESS AND LUST, THESE DISGUISES FAIL TO SUCCEED IN DECEIVING. THIS COLLECTION WILL MAKE THE READER REALIZE THAT ALL THE METEORS HAVE VERY CLEVERLY AND DEXTEROUSLY UNREVEALED THE SPURIOUS FALSEHOOD AND REVEALED THE TRUTH HIDING UNDERNEATH....वि. स. खांडेकरांनी लिहिलेल्या अठ्ठावीस रूपककथांचा संग्रह. इसापासून जिब्रानपर्यंत भिन्न भिन्न काळांतल्या आणि निरनिराळ्या पेशांतल्या प्रतिभावंतांनी कथेचा हा चिमुकला, पण चटकदार प्रकार लोकप्रिय केला आहे. रूपककथा ही अनेकदा अन्योक्तीसारखी असते किंवा भासते. रूपककथा हे या वांड.मयप्रकारचे शीर्षकही खांडेकरांनी अत्यंत विचारपूर्वक घडवले आहे. या प्रकारच्या कथेचे विषय काळाबरोबर बदलत गेले, तरी तिचा टीकात्मक दृष्टीकोन अधिक अधिक व्यापक, सामाजिक व सर्वस्पर्शी होत राहिला. क्वचित तिला काव्यमय स्वरूप देण्याचा प्रयत्न झाला, तरी तिची आत्मशक्ती होती तशीच राहिली. तिच्यात काहीही बदल झाला नाही. या रूपककथांचे खरे सामर्थ्य सूचकतेने, पण अचूक रीतीने केलेल्या सत्यदर्शनात आहे. जग अष्टौप्रहर तोंडावर मुखवटे घालून आपले व्यवहार पार पाडीत असते. व्यक्ती आणि समाज यांची बाह्यरूपे स्वार्थलंपटटेमुळे बहुधा फसवी ठरतात. या सर्वांचे सत्यस्वरूप कळावे, म्हणून त्यांच्या तोंडांवरचे मुखवटे दूर करण्याचा रूपककथा कसोशीने आणि कौशल्याने प्रयत्न करीत असते, हाच प्रत्यय हा संग्रह वाचून वाचकांना येईल.

HUMOURS, LIGHT AND ENTERTAINING STORIES BY V.S. KHANDEKAR.

PROMETHEUS IS THE CELESTIAL BEING FROM THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY. HE UNDERWENT IMMENSE PAIN AND AGONY TO DEVELOP THE HUMAN CULTURE. V. S. KHANDEKAR FINDS MAHATMA GANDHI S LIFE AND PERSONALITY RESEMBLING TO THAT OF PROMETHEUS. HE ALWAYS CONSIDERED GANDHIJI TO BE THE PROMETHEUS OF 20TH CENTURY, THUS MAKING GANDHIJI SECOND PROMETHEUS. THESE ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN TO PRAISE GANDHIJI ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTH CENTENARY. THEY ALL REVEAL GANDHIJI S YEARNING RESEMBLING PROMETHEUS. WHEN THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS SINGING IN THE DECLINING VIRTUES, IT WAS GANDHIJI WHO WAS CONTINUOUSLY PLANTING THE SEEDS OF VIRTUE, HE HIMSELF WAS EXECUTING UTMOST VIRTUOUS CONDUCT, BRINGING SMILES ON MANY A FACES. HIS WORDS SPOKEN THROUGH KHANDEKAR S PEN HAVE THE CAPACITY TO EVOKE THE INTENSE ARDOUR FOR HOPE. THIS COLLECTION TRIES TO REVEAL GANDHIJI S LIFE AND HIS THOUGHTS IN A NEW WAY, IT IMPLEMENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF FORTUNE AND FATE IN CONTRAST WITH RITES AND OBSERVANCES. IT CREATES AWARENESS IN THE READER S MIND ABOUT THE SOCIAL PIOUSNESS. IF YOU REALLY WISH TO WIN OVER THE CONCISE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS LIKE RELIGION, CASTE, COUNTRY, ETC., THEN YOU MUST TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS DOOSRA PROMETHEUS .

NEARING FORTIES I REALISED THAT THIS SHLOKA IS NOT ONLY RHYTHMIC AND POETIC BUT IS VERY REALISTIC. MY MIND OFTEN WONDERS INTO THOSE DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD AND TEENAGE MAKING ME ANXIOUS TREMULOUSLY. THEY MAKE ME REALISE MY MAKING AS A MAN THROUGH THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LUCK, PERSONALITY AND SITUATION AND THEN LEAVE ME WONDERING. WE ALWAYS TRY TO FIND OUT THE ANSWER FOR WHAT IS LIFE? AT THE END, WE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT LIFE IS A SMALL ISLAND PEEPING OUT OF AN OCEAN OF VARIOUS CONTROVERSIES.

THIS COLLECTION COMPRISES OF 75 METEORS BY KHANDEKAR. IT IS YET ANOTHER ADDITION TO BOOKS LIKE 'KALIKA , MRIGJALATIL KALYA AND SONERI SAVALYA. METEOR IS A VERY TREMULOUS FORM OF PROSE. THE MAIN ASPIRATION OF THE METEOR IS TO CREATE THE ATMOSPHERE WITH THE HELP OF VERY FEW WORDS, TO BEAUTIFULLY THE CREATION WITH PERFECT BUT MAGICAL WORDS AND TO MIX THOUGHTS AND FELLINGS INTO IT PERFECTLY, THUS INTRODUCING LIFE WITH ITS PRECIOUS VALUES. METEOR RESEMBLES COVERT INSINUATION. IT HAS TREMENDOUS INNER POWER. IT IS REFLECTED PERFECTLY WELL IN COVERT BUT FAULTLESS PRESENTATION. METEOR UNREVEALS THE SELFISHNESS BY UNMASKING THE WORLD AND SOCIETY AS WELL, MAKING IT APPEAR AS A PHILOSOPHICAL DOSE. KHANDEKAR S FAN CLUB WILL WELCOME THIS BOOK FULL OF VIGOUR AND VITALITY, WHOLE HEARTEDLY AND WILLINGLY.