Chitralekha was written by a young man in his twenties. (Bhagawati charan verma) It has been written in an excellent style which has both challenging and provoking theme with ample beauty and imagination. Better explained the story unfolds with warmth and tenderness. the characters enact the varied tragic style to perfection which grips the reader. The pendulum as if it were swings from the romantic and stormy character of a woman whose power was passion to the curious and inconclusive dreams of a renounce who could not renounce his ego; from the immortal life of a sinner who retained the virginity of his soul while he dined, wined and seduced, to the mystic world of the sycophant of God who hallowed his body but prostituted its soul; from the galleries and caverns of ancient faith and religious dogmatism to the wide open avenues of rational thought.
Chitralekha is just not fiction it has a historical perspective too for which it is held in awe. It depicts the period of Indian History, particularly spotlighting the under current of religious thought, when canonical culture and rituals and pedantic learning made religion into inhuman scholasticism and asceticism. It was that time when Buddhism was calling people to the simplicity of truth and the majesty of the moral law, while the more radical and pagan human mind, revolving against conventional morality and ideological stagnation, was crying for the readjustment of values to the needs of a complex mobile social order. It was fighting against the forces of political disruption to lay the foundation of a great and lasting empire. Here we get a glimpse of Chanakya's philosophy - a philosophy divorced from ethics and wedded to politics and expounded by a man who was a contemporary to Aristotle and who lived long before Machiavelli. Chitralekha though retains its fictional qualities of imaginative plot construction, forceful characterisation and artistic presentation.
english version of the hindi novel is available on net.
Chitralekha is just not fiction it has a historical perspective too for which it is held in awe. It depicts the period of Indian History, particularly spotlighting the under current of religious thought, when canonical culture and rituals and pedantic learning made religion into inhuman scholasticism and asceticism. It was that time when Buddhism was calling people to the simplicity of truth and the majesty of the moral law, while the more radical and pagan human mind, revolving against conventional morality and ideological stagnation, was crying for the readjustment of values to the needs of a complex mobile social order. It was fighting against the forces of political disruption to lay the foundation of a great and lasting empire. Here we get a glimpse of Chanakya's philosophy - a philosophy divorced from ethics and wedded to politics and expounded by a man who was a contemporary to Aristotle and who lived long before Machiavelli. Chitralekha though retains its fictional qualities of imaginative plot construction, forceful characterisation and artistic presentation.
english version of the hindi novel is available on net.
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