अश्रू

by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

This 20th century has presented the world with many things good as well as bad, but the best of all is the importance given to the common man, making him uncommon.

What is life? It is a combination of human beings - common as well as uncommon - 99% are common, only one percent of them are uncommon. Till today we heard only from these one percent people, they were kings, saints, philosophers, poets, scientist, heroes...

They presented their sugar-coated talks and cheated the common men. They killed the initiatives of every common man. Still, the common man was striving with all his strength to safe guard the cultural values, the only support for humanity. The hero of this novel is a common man. He does not have any exclusive qualities, he does not succeed in doing something exclusively good but he hesitates to do anything bad. This is an outstanding novel by Khandekar expressing the pains in the life of a common man.

Genres: Marathi, Fiction

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1942

About the author

In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a small town.He worked in that school until 1938.While working as a teacher,Khandekar produced in his spare time abundant Marathi literature in various forms. In his lifetime, he wrote sixteen novels, six plays, around 250 short stories, 50 allegorical stories, 100 essays, and over 200 critiques.

Reviews

[अनिकेत · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found the story very melodramatic, a schoolteacher living with his own ideals & faces the miseries in life coming to him due to his financial inability to fulfill his dreams & family needs. In the middle of the book, it makes you more irritating when the sad things happen to as if somewhere they are plotted purposefully for him.

[Vishal]

i want read this book.

[Shreya Furange]

mast...

[Raviraj Deshmukh]

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[Malhaar Kale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing.

[Sarang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sad story yet touching