Mihirabala
by Santosh
Kumar Das
Description
This is the story of
trials and tribulations a young lady has undergone in her search for truth.
Manisha is thirteen when her parents have committed suicide. Krupa, their
servant, is the cause. From her childhood she has been learning that ‘Good’
wins over ‘Evil’. But opposite is the result in her parents’ case. Which one of
the two is true? For this she has intended to undertake a search. Her plan is
to marry a person who is more evil than Krupa and start her search. In case of
her victory over him, she would take that to be the victory of ‘Good’ over
‘Evil’ and vice versa.
Excerpt
I was sure that Kumar would not have dared to do what he did to me if my
parents were alive. But, what would have been my reaction then? Wouldn’t I be a
bit accommodative, a bit liberal? Yes, there was chance because I wouldn’t have
thought then that Kumar was taking advantage of my helplessness. See the
paradox of life! When I would have been accommodative, Kumar wouldn’t have
ventured and when I was on my guard, Kumar took me to be an easy target. While
our relationship would have been intact in the former case, there was
likelihood of its disruption in the latter case. The chance of relationship
thriving between two equals is more probable than between two unequals.
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From the Author
Formerly, prior to my father's time, my forefathers were very famous.
They were the landlords of our village then. Not a single leaf dared to shake
without their permission. Such was their fame. With the passage of time, that
renown had deteriorated and made us ordinary by the time of my birth. So I have
been brought up in the surrounding of a lower middle-class family. There is
nothing extraordinary in my educational qualification so as to make me boastful
in that regard. I am, simply, a law graduate. Ten years back I have shifted my
place of residence to the city of Cuttack to begin my law practice in the
High-Court of our province and have been residing in this city since then.
Though my law practice has no such charm, the city itself has a charm of its
own which has induced me not to return back to my native village.
Notwithstanding my ordinary upbringing, ordinary education and my failure
in law practice, I am an avid reader of English literature since my childhood.
The ordinariness of my life must have instilled in me this extraordinary
reading habit. Place a book of any sort in my hand and I'll forget the whole
world instantly. This interest has encouraged me to go for writing a novel. Mihirabala
is my debut novel.
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