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Book Review | Worlds within worlds in Dhumketu’s best classic short stories
Updated Mar 14, 2021, 2:16 am IST
In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a world war, and more
Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated by Jenny Bhatt.
The title story of
Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt, is by no means the only one in the book that grabbed my attention and kept it.
In fact, I liked the opening story in the collection the best, though less because it’s better than the rest than because it was my introduction to Dhumketu (Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi), a writer I had never heard of before, though he was a contemporary of Munshi Premchand, Rabindranath Tagore and Saadat Hasan Manto.
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February 04, 2021 16:35 IST
The uniqueness of Gujarati writer Dhumketu’s craft lies in deflecting attention from the craft itself
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The uniqueness of Gujarati writer Dhumketu’s craft lies in deflecting attention from the craft itself
Dhumketu is regarded a pioneer of the short story form. A contemporary of Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand and Manto, Dhumketu the pen-name of Gujarati writer Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892-1965) wrote short stories, novels, plays, literary criticism and more. The translator of this collection, Jenny Bhatt, contextualises his work in the introduction while providing insightful details about his craft. The translations of Dhumketu’s own introductions to his work help the reader understand the writer’s approach to the short story form.