Sanvadini

by V.P. Kale

I reach home at 11 in the night; Urmila greets me in the most simple style and says, "oh! How tired you are`. This is what keeps me going. Her words and gesture make me forget my tiredness throughout the day. I get more energetic. I cannot tell you how important this simple sentence is. When your wife is very much tired after cooking a large meal for many guests she also needs only one sentence from her husband, just like the husband who returns home after a very busy and especially tiring day. We have problems, we try to find out the answers somewhere else, but cannot find it. The answer lies within us. The second side of the problem is actually the answer, we just need to reverse our direction. Why is that each and every story by Va Pu impresses us equally? What is so special about it? The answer is simple. Va Pu sees the things which we fail to see, he experiences in a way we never think. The sorrows, happiness, moments of pain and joy, the struggle in the busy schedule day after day, the various dilemmas at the job, the predicaments, the problems in sex life, ego, insults and many such things keep on happening all around us. But it takes a very sensitive mind like Va Pu`s to sense all this, to go through it as if our own, to put it down in words, and to present the best picture before us. He finds some sort of positive approach in each problem. He widens our horizons, he makes us more sanguine towards life, he is the friend, guide and philosopher in everyone`s life. He has opted a special style for the dialogues in this present book `Sanvadini`, as the name suggests.

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Vasant Purushottam Kale, popularly known as Va Pu, was Marathi writer who wrote short stories, novels, and biographical sketches.He authored more than 60 books. His well-known books include Partner, Vapurza, Hi Waat Ekatichi, and Thikri.

Reviews

[Dr.J.G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Title ought to be spelt, when transcribed in English, with m at the first nasal sound, instead of with the n selected by whoever did that, obviously illiterate as far as Indian languages go.

Once again, publishers have made it impossible to quote title and other details, including name of author, in the language of the text.

It's unclear if the author uses this format as a novelty experiment, or were these scripts of radio plays sans everything but dialogues.

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[Bhavnesh Pohan · Rating 4 out of 5]

एक स्टडी टेबल. पुस्तकांचा गराडा. एक कोरं पान. त्या कोऱ्या पानापासून अलिप्त, खिडकीच्या पार शून्यात नजर असलेले व.पु. काळे. त्यांची नजर जरी शून्यात असली तरी डोक्यात मात्र आधीच एक चित्र उतरलं आहे. आपल्या सारख्याच एका सामान्य माणसाचं. त्याचे विचार, अडचणी, मनःस्ताप, प्रेम, राग असं सारंकाही वपुंनी एकदम तंतोतंत टिपलेलं आहे. ते आता फक्त या चित्राला, समोर असेलेल्या कोऱ्या पानावर शब्दांनी अजून खुलवतील. मला वपुंच्या घराची खिडकी व्हायला आवडलं असतं. त्यांची नजर माझ्यातून, मला छेदून, स्पर्शून गेली असती, याचंच मला जन्मभर समाधान वाटलं असतं.

[अनिकेत महाजनी · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sanvadini : A small book containing 6 stories, the speciality of the stories in the book is that they are narrated in the form of conversation between two people. Something unique & new so worth reading, 4 stars for this new concept, notable stories- eka mithichi katha, ata tari bhandshil na? mala uttar hawai, atmanastu kamay

[Rohit Harip · Rating 3 out of 5]

extra martial affiars, middle class families and day to day issue subtly narrated by author. In nutshell typical वपु book.