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by Anirudh Deshpande
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English Moral Stories
I thank my elder sister Anjali Deshpande who read an earlier draft of this once ‘secret’ novelas an accomplished novelist and story teller. This novel owes a lot to her remarks. If I have been unable to incorporate some of her comments on the draft, the fault is entirely mine because a time comes when an author must get a text out of his ‘system’. I have imagined this story many times in the last two years and it must be placed before the readers without delay.Sandeep Chatterjee, Saurav Vatsa and Shivangini Tandon,are my former students andnow dear friends with whom anything under the sun can be discussed. Earlier drafts of this yarn were imposed on them. They graciously read the drafts and encouraged me to finalize and publish it.
Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande This is a work of fiction. For Anupama Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez You cannot write more ...Read Moreabout yourself than you are. - Ludwig Wittgenstein ***** A word of Thanks I thank my elder sister Anjali Deshpande who read an earlier draft of this once ‘secret’ novelas an accomplished novelist and story teller. This novel owes a lot to her remarks. If I have been unable to incorporate some of her comments on the draft, the fault
Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande II The Lovers It was past midnight when Ravi went to bed after smoking a cigarette on the terrace.He tip toed into the bedroom, took off his pants and shirt and slipped into the bed. ...Read Moremother and daughter were fast asleep next to him their silhouettes visible in the semi dark room. A pointless conversation with his wife was the last thing he desired after a trying day. He knew she was inquisitive by nature. He failed anyway because a few minuteslater she turned towards him murmuring something in sleep. He felt her smooth warm
Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande III The Gentleman The last few days had sapped Ravi’s energy and increased his anxiety. He wondered what he would do with his father’s illness.The prolonged illness had exhausted him but he could not fall ...Read MoreHe had taken his father four times to the hospital in the last one month. The doctors with bored expressions had revived him with copious doses of oxygen and saline.They sent him back home after this.In the meantime the Patriarch cursed the hospital staff in words which would have embarrassed a Punjabi sergeant-major. “I will fuck you” he shouted at
Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande IV The Doctor and the Patriarch Ravi tried his best to look at his father’s life from a distance. He knew very well that a son can rarely do that with his father. In life, ...Read Morea neatly narrated story, the present is always kneaded into the past. Once his friend Dheeraj had asked him “Do you think we would have led the same life Uncle did in his times?When I think of my father I often ask myself this question” The friends were talking about Sunita Vohra, a well endowed female table tennis playerwho was
Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande V Family Memories A bitter life had made the Doctor’s memories rancid. Ravi’s childhood had comforted her but his growth into an unsuccessful romanticmade her anxious. She never expressed this anxiety in words but her ...Read Moresaid everything. The Doctordisapproved of Ravi’s love for his attractive young wife. The fact that hedid not dominate his wife did not go down well with the bitter old woman. Sometimes Ravi thought his mother wanted to see herself in his wife to vindicate her opinion of matrimony. His choice of a girl from a Punjabi family was also disliked