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    Rag Doll After My Heart, A: A Poetic Novel
    Rag Doll After My Heart, A: A Poetic Novel
    Rag Doll After My Heart, A: A Poetic Novel
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    Rag Doll After My Heart, A: A Poetic Novel

    By Anuradha Vaidya

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZubaan Publishers Pvt Ltd
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9789384757878
    Rag Doll After My Heart, A: A Poetic Novel

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      Rag Doll After My Heart, A - Anuradha Vaidya

      A Rag Doll After My Heart

      A Poetic Novel

      First published in Marathi in 1966, this unique novella in free verse tells an age-old story: that of a woman's deep desire to be a mother.

      Setting out life as a game in which the moves are predetermined, and yet where rules exist only to be twisted, perhaps negotiated, sometimes even changed, Anuradha Vaidya deftly engages the reader in a sort of play, suggesting a joining of the dots, a connecting of line endings that lead the reader deeper into the story.

      As the story traces a relationship that begins with unquestioning love that, over time, transforms into tension and distance, the reader is encouraged to linger, or jump back and forth across stanzas and lines, to navigate, interpret, and savour the beauty of the expression, both in the turn of phrase and the coinage of new words.

      The sheer beauty of the almost allegorical imagery of life as a game played on the worldly board by people who are actually pawns, marks every page of this poetic narrative.

      ANURADHA VAIDYA is an award-winning writer of short stories, poems, novels and children's stories. One of her novels Chauphula has been adapted into a Marathi film. Her illustrated children's story Gamaticha Gao won her an award from the National Council of Educational Research and Training. Vaidya was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad, Pune.

      SHRUTI NARGUNDKAR is an educationist, entrepreneur, writer and blogger. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

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      First published by Zubaan Publishers Pvt Ltd 2015

      Copyright © for the original Marathi Anuradha Vaidya, 1996

      Copyright © for the original English Shruti Nargundkar, 2015

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      Contents

      Cover

      About the Book

      About the Author and Translator

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Note to the Reader

      Introduction

      My Gambit

      One

      Two

      Three

      Four

      Five

      Six

      Seven

      Eight

      Nine

      Ten

      Eleven

      Twelve

      Thirteen

      Fourteen

      Fifteen

      Sixteen

      Seventeen

      Eighteen

      Nineteen

      Twenty

      Introduction

      Maajhi Chindhyanchi Bahuli is a story of the relationship between a mother and daughter who are not linked by blood or birth. The relationship is conceived and cherished not in the mother’s womb, but in her heart. It is a tale of how their relationship began and grew in joy, weathered deep trouble and finally triumphed. The pull of parenthood, and the desire to shower affection and love on a child is one of the most instinctive and primal needs. The relationship described here is the result of this compulsive need. Here, a human being is prepared to bestow love and wait patiently to be loved in return. In her early years, the object of affection laps up all the attention she gets, but growing up and coming into knowledge brings on feelings of loss of identity, insecurity and resentment. For the troubled soul in the spoor of its roots, the affection and love that has been so nourishing and life giving can turn into a trap and loved ones can become strangers. The one whose need it is to love is deeply shaken, hurt and feels rejected. While both struggle with the cross currents of conflicting emotions the world outside is re-launches and consolidates its opposition to this relationship. Social criticism, mockery, distrust, condescension and disapproval become the bane of the relationship. The two people most affected by this internal and external maelstrom have to contend not only with their own conflicted feelings, but have also

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