Drushti

by Anant Samant

During the process the author met many blind readers.

Coincidentally while visiting ‘Fort Raigad’ at Mahad he met four trekkers, hundred percent blind who were also on the way to Raigad on their own to SEE the fort. This concept of blind enjoying the VISION inspired him to pen ‘Drushti’, his 12th novel. A born-blind girl, a boy turned blind in his youth, a sea gone blind with stormy fury - the confrontation and friendship developing among these three is the plot, but the story is about vision of soul and the steel in the mind.

The author, with idea to spread all over the word, this vision, steel and hope he found in blind, has decided to adopt ‘Drishti’ in form of Talking book.

86 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

His every short story and novel reflects the stormy life that he has lived across the seas and in this soil. He considers himself to be a common man, living common life; But his literature shocked Marathi readers and critics with unread, unheard, unseen world. His first novel ‘M. T. Aiwa Maru’ was like a fresh wind gushing in to feed hunger of younger generations for something true, timely and new. It was praised, acclaimed and awarded. Now, even after twenty years it is the best seller and the only novel of its kind in literature.
His second novel ‘Trimakasi Madam’ is nearly an extension of ‘M. T. Aiwa Maru’.
‘Avirat’ tells the story of proud, nation-lover NRI coming back to India to start a hotel bussiness and see his faiths, notions and dream shattering. The great Marathi author shri Jaywant Dalvi claimed ‘Avirat’ to be greater piece of work than ‘M.T.Aiwa Maru.’
‘Oshtories’ is the most sensitive of his novels trying to differentiate soul, mind and body. It connects spirituality with photography. In this novel Camera has a character and Photos clicked are points of climax. Using Photography as a medium the author discloses the secrets of love, soul and body. No novel in any language can even be compared with ‘Oshtories’.
These five of his dozen novels are enough to explain versatility, variety and strength of his pen. His every novel is adored by young generation of Marathi readers. His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned number of imitators but no equals.
Four of his books, ‘M.T. Aiwa Maru’, ‘K five’, ‘ Front line story’, ‘Bypassche divas’ were adopted by ‘National Association of Blind’ as talking-books.

Reviews

[अनिकेत · Rating 3 out of 5]

A thrilling & exciting novella containing the story of blind, went to see Alibaug fort on a stormy day, returning from the fort, how did they faced the challenges in the sea & try to survive it

[Aniket Patil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this book almost till everything is clear. This was the first time I found a scanned copy of certain book on internet that to incomplete copy. However, my vivid imagination and some users review helped me to form the imaginations and visualize the tragic end (some one mentioned Titanic kind of end reference here, Thank you very much for that).

I found story ordinary, however The way in which blinds behavior is portrayed is appreciable work. Having worked and helped blind person for long time , I know and agree the way they react, behave and perceive the things. these ratings which I gave for this book is for the sheer observation skills of the author.

[Sukhdev · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually this is audio Book. The thriller novel.

[Mala · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rich with details... gripping...pretty neat visuals given to non visual things.. towards the ends somewhere felt like titanic climax...nice work.