വിഭജനങ്ങള്‍ | Vibhajanangal

by Anand

നോവല്‍ എന്ന് വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കുന്നുവെങ്കിലും വിഭജനങ്ങള്‍ ഓര്‍മ്മകളുടെയും അവലോകനങ്ങളുടേയും യാത്രകളുടേയും ഫിക്ഷന്റെയും സങ്കലനമാണ്. അവയിലൂടെ ഗ്രന്ഥകാരൻ നാല്പതിലേറെ വർഷങ്ങൾക്ക് മുമ്പിലെ ലോകത്തെ, അതിന്റെ ആവേശങ്ങളോടും സംഘർഷങ്ങളോടും സങ്കടങ്ങളോടും കൂടി പുനർനിർമ്മിക്കുകയും, അവിടെനിന്ന് അതിനെ അധുനാതനകാലംവരെ മാറി മാറി നീട്ടുകയും, മടങ്ങുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. രാഷ്ട്രീയം, ചരിത്രം, കല, സാഹിത്യം, സയൻസ്, സാമൂഹ്യശാസ്ത്രം, വാസ്തുശില്പം, ഭൂമിശാസ്ത്രം, ഭൂഗർഭശാസ്ത്രം ഇങ്ങനെ പല തലങ്ങളിലൂടെയും ആ യാത്ര നീളുന്നു.

220 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

P. Sachidanandan (born 1936), who uses the pseudonym Anand is an Indian writer.
Anand writes primarily in Malayalam. He is one of the noted living intellectuals in India. His works are noted for their philosophical flavor, historical context and their humanism. Veedum Thadavum and Jaivamanushyan won the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award. Marubhoomikal Undakunnathu won the Vayalar Award. He did not accept the Yashpal Award for Aalkkootam and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Abhayarthikal.

Reviews

[Dheeraj Paleri · Rating 5 out of 5]

What makes Anand one of my favorite is his loose concern of genre. Popularly known as a novelist, he didn't shrink himself to the genre. Vibhajanangal (Partitions) would be the best example. It is often described as a novel and it seems much more like an autobiographical excerpt that has a least concern about the author. The protagonist is Anand himself. He goes back to Vadodara after three decades. The city is important for him as one of the first places he got appointed as an Engineer. When he reaches back after three decades, the self-realization about the change in his perception strikes him. He started exploration to find the traces of Vadodara he lived in thirty years back... He saw new faces... remembered old faces... There are moments in this work where the reader would trap in a dilemma whether to count the piece as a fiction or history... The threads are that much spinned each other... From there Anand takes the reader to the history of India which no historian can give us... the lost generations... people... cultures... The India unknown...