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Duvidha [The Dilemma]
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July 29, 2021
Oh how beautifully the author puts forth the ultimate timeless dilemma of human beings - Money or Love. A young woman gets married to a rich trader and on the very wedding night he tells her that the next morning he would be travelling elsewhere for business and won't return for five long years. The husband, even if for a second, faces the dilemma whether to choose his young wife over business but his money-monger father manipulates him to choose the latter. As the husband ventures forth, a ghost, smitten by the beauty of the wife, takes the form of her husband and enters the house. He is overwhelmed by the love that he gets, not only from the wife but also from the mother, the aunt. The wife has never been loved and respected so intensely and she falls head over heels for this ghost.
The book very poignantly points out the shortcomings and selfish quests of human beings.
The book very poignantly points out the shortcomings and selfish quests of human beings.
April 24, 2021
About Author
Duvidha is a book written by Vijaydan Detha. Vijaydan was a Rajasthani author. He had written stories in his native language only. Later his son Kailash Kabeer translated most of his stories. His stories are different from his contemporaries or in other words his stories was ahead of his time. He won many awards including “Padma Shri”. He was even nominated for Nobel Prize.
Story
It’s a love story. A ghost fall in love with a newly wed woman. The Groom was more interested in money than his beautiful wife and left city for 5 years in order to start new business in other city. When ghost came to know about this, he took the disguise of groom and started living with the groom’s family. On the first day, he confessed the truth to the bride and ask her to make a decision.
My views
I applaud writer for unusual thinking of a ghost falling in love with a woman. In a way, writer created two versions of bride’s husband. One is virtual, the ghost, whose whole perceptive towards world was changed after falling in love, now he don’t want to harm anyone. Even thinking about his beloved’s pain would made him uneasy. His feelings was so pure that bride can’t say no to him.
Other version is human, the brutal reality. He didn’t think twice before leaving his wife alone for five years because earning money was more necessary than anything else. I think we human should learn love from the ghost.
Although I have read from the translated version but these beautiful lines would have take essence from original one :
1. दुनिया की सारी दौलत के बदले भी बीता हुआ पल वापस नहीं लौटाया जा सकता। इनसान दौलत की खातिर है कि दौलत इनसान की खातिर, फकत इसी हिसाब को अच्छी तरह समझना है। फिर कौन सा हिसाब बाकी रह जाता है! सोने का माहात्म्य बड़ा है या काया का? साँस का माहात्म्य बड़ा है या माया का?
2. प्रीत करने के बाद तो भूतों का मन भी धुल जाता है। कोई बराबरी का हो तो छल-बल की ताकत भी आजमाए, पर नींद में सोये हुए का गला चाक करने पर तो तलवार भी कलंकित होती है।
3.पति ने उसे इस तरह मझदार में छोड़ दिया। भूत होते हुए भी इसने प्रीत जताई, तो कैसे इनकार करे? अगर स्वप्न वश में हो तो प्रीत वश में हो!
4. बस्ती की उपेक्षा नहीं की जा सकती। चाहे कितना ही दौलत का जोर क्यों न हो, कंधा देनेवाले किराए पर नहीं आएँगे।
5. ‘फकत विवाह से क्या होता है! विवाह की दुहाई उम्र भर नहीं चल सकती। व्यापार वस्तुओं का होता है, प्रीत का नहीं। तुम तो प्रीत का भी व्यापार करने लगे! इस व्यापार में ऐसी ही बरकत हुआ करती है!’
Duvidha is a book written by Vijaydan Detha. Vijaydan was a Rajasthani author. He had written stories in his native language only. Later his son Kailash Kabeer translated most of his stories. His stories are different from his contemporaries or in other words his stories was ahead of his time. He won many awards including “Padma Shri”. He was even nominated for Nobel Prize.
Story
It’s a love story. A ghost fall in love with a newly wed woman. The Groom was more interested in money than his beautiful wife and left city for 5 years in order to start new business in other city. When ghost came to know about this, he took the disguise of groom and started living with the groom’s family. On the first day, he confessed the truth to the bride and ask her to make a decision.
My views
I applaud writer for unusual thinking of a ghost falling in love with a woman. In a way, writer created two versions of bride’s husband. One is virtual, the ghost, whose whole perceptive towards world was changed after falling in love, now he don’t want to harm anyone. Even thinking about his beloved’s pain would made him uneasy. His feelings was so pure that bride can’t say no to him.
Other version is human, the brutal reality. He didn’t think twice before leaving his wife alone for five years because earning money was more necessary than anything else. I think we human should learn love from the ghost.
Although I have read from the translated version but these beautiful lines would have take essence from original one :
1. दुनिया की सारी दौलत के बदले भी बीता हुआ पल वापस नहीं लौटाया जा सकता। इनसान दौलत की खातिर है कि दौलत इनसान की खातिर, फकत इसी हिसाब को अच्छी तरह समझना है। फिर कौन सा हिसाब बाकी रह जाता है! सोने का माहात्म्य बड़ा है या काया का? साँस का माहात्म्य बड़ा है या माया का?
2. प्रीत करने के बाद तो भूतों का मन भी धुल जाता है। कोई बराबरी का हो तो छल-बल की ताकत भी आजमाए, पर नींद में सोये हुए का गला चाक करने पर तो तलवार भी कलंकित होती है।
3.पति ने उसे इस तरह मझदार में छोड़ दिया। भूत होते हुए भी इसने प्रीत जताई, तो कैसे इनकार करे? अगर स्वप्न वश में हो तो प्रीत वश में हो!
4. बस्ती की उपेक्षा नहीं की जा सकती। चाहे कितना ही दौलत का जोर क्यों न हो, कंधा देनेवाले किराए पर नहीं आएँगे।
5. ‘फकत विवाह से क्या होता है! विवाह की दुहाई उम्र भर नहीं चल सकती। व्यापार वस्तुओं का होता है, प्रीत का नहीं। तुम तो प्रीत का भी व्यापार करने लगे! इस व्यापार में ऐसी ही बरकत हुआ करती है!’
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