While reading our Editor's article on Girish Karnad and UR Ananthamurthy, I remembered reading URA's Samskara a long time ago. I was at an impressionable age and was awed by all the books I read. Even then, Samskara failed to impress me; in fact, it was like swallowing a mouthful of bad smell suddenly. I regretted reading it after managing to finish it somehow, because I never left even a bad book unfinished. This is my personal opinion and it was not because of caste reasons. I do not know the criteria for Jnanpith, but his other works may have been the reason for the award.
“ What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” -- Jack Kerouac (American Poet and Novelist) From what I have seen and admired in humans, they are eternal optimists. Goodbyes seem to break us, but we straighten up and walk, holding our head high, blinking away our tears. And as regards the specks of people dispersing, when something moves away, something else comes near. Guess that's how laws of nature move. If a time comes when nothing else comes near, it's when we will become really alone; alone to live and love life without any reason, taking the next step forward.
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