KAALKHAND
(A SLICE OF TIME)
KAALKHAND
A novel includes the entire life while showing
awareness of history, culture and ethos of a particular period. It may run to a
few hundred years. ‘Kalkhand’ a Hindi novel covers a period of more than two hundred
years with over one thousand characters where an age of trials and tribulations
finds expression with history, culture and heritage as the background. To an author each word, he writes is equally
important.
Novel gives a thrust to past, present and future and its ethos. It is an effort to live with the spirit and culture of age. It moves to past and then returns to live in the present. It is about evil and, it speaks about integrity of life. It is about people, a region and a country. It talks about the growth and expansion of the intellect and material well-being, and of the ethics of life.
Good and ethical living is often the objective of a good writing but it does touch ugliness of life and that is quite essential. Man’s life and living form the foundation of the novel. ‘Kaalkhand’ is a novel written against historical background, talks of life in its totality. It touches life from all possible aspects that interpret history and culture along with society and its ethical standards. ‘It is a serious work of literary art characterized by historical overtones and vast sweep.’ ‘KaalKhand’ (A Slice of Time) in Hindi is a magnum opus, for it is a tale of two centuries in historical perspective with a fictionalized backdrop and it runs into twenty three hundred pages with more than one thousand characters.
It is difficult to separate subjective approach to writing all the time. It is also not very easy to sift subjective from the objective. Intensity of experience and nonaligned appraisal of situations and relations can eliminate autobiographical element in a creative work. To some extent, a creative writer cannot be objective. In such a huge work, imperceptible incidents relating to family background crop up. While writing a long novel, the author had to interact with many old men, who took birth around 1880 and lived on to relate certain personal experiences about people, culture, heritage, struggle, history and India.
Novel gives a thrust to past, present and future and its ethos. It is an effort to live with the spirit and culture of age. It moves to past and then returns to live in the present. It is about evil and, it speaks about integrity of life. It is about people, a region and a country. It talks about the growth and expansion of the intellect and material well-being, and of the ethics of life.
Good and ethical living is often the objective of a good writing but it does touch ugliness of life and that is quite essential. Man’s life and living form the foundation of the novel. ‘Kaalkhand’ is a novel written against historical background, talks of life in its totality. It touches life from all possible aspects that interpret history and culture along with society and its ethical standards. ‘It is a serious work of literary art characterized by historical overtones and vast sweep.’ ‘KaalKhand’ (A Slice of Time) in Hindi is a magnum opus, for it is a tale of two centuries in historical perspective with a fictionalized backdrop and it runs into twenty three hundred pages with more than one thousand characters.
It is difficult to separate subjective approach to writing all the time. It is also not very easy to sift subjective from the objective. Intensity of experience and nonaligned appraisal of situations and relations can eliminate autobiographical element in a creative work. To some extent, a creative writer cannot be objective. In such a huge work, imperceptible incidents relating to family background crop up. While writing a long novel, the author had to interact with many old men, who took birth around 1880 and lived on to relate certain personal experiences about people, culture, heritage, struggle, history and India.
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