Review Time - Rains off a Smoky Sky by Pritam Mandal
Rains off a Smoky Sky
From Anurita’s Diary
- Pritam Mandal
I always have a
love for reading diary pages written by someone. If you are one of my kind,
then surely go with ‘Rains off a Smoky Sky: from Anurita’s diary’ by Pritam
Mandal. A person writes diary to express his feelings, to question himself,
find answer to convince his mind, to reveal his emotions, especially he pens
the stuffs which is known to none, but only to him. Every of these can be glimpsed
in the pages of ‘Anurita’s Diary’.
Anurita’s writing
onsets with her dad’s present of a diary and a pen on her 7th
birthday. Neither the diary’s cover (a
blue-green firefly against the night sky) nor her dad’s words,
“Be the change
you want to see in the world.
Raise your voice against
corruption” – Mahatma Gandhi
Has changed till
the end. But all that has changed is Anurita’s inner self, which is revealed
through the collected pages of her diary. She names her inner self as Rita,
part of her name and later as Firefly.
The early pages
of her diary are much about her life in her village ‘Apurbopur’. She pens about
the beauty of her village, her childhood and school days, the people living
around her, their behaviours, the festivals celebrated, the happy and sad
moments that she has encountered.
Later she joins
B.Tech and her life from home to hostel starts. Anu, who has never been out of
her village yet, enjoys her college life, being in a hostel. Her friends make
her college days colourful and she feels blessed to have such good friends. We can
see the girly feelings and moment happiness she encounters when boys around her
flirts, and when she gets proposals and few similar stuffs.
The last part of
her diary holds much significance, her life in the Tulip Ship. It is not just
about her physical change towards the world but also the change with her inner wisdom.
The words of her father,
“Be a human
being. Be watchful and if you can fly, fly from here to a safety zone”… she
finds it rather meaningful. She understands life.
Anurita’s change
can be encountered through the pages of her diary which has revealed with few
incidents, the importance of our earth, the need to preserve our earth are
certain things which have been imprinted then and there four us to understand.
On the whole,
this book is a beautiful journey of a girl’s life with her inner wisdom. The author,
Pritam Mandal, has chosen a unique way to express the inner feelings of a girl
and her life. He has penned even the short occurrences holding some importance.
A reader can enjoy every nook and corner of the page of it, and you will never
want the end to come when you are actually waiting for something more to materialize. But as its said, it is not really an end, but
just the beginning. The end of the old and the start of a new beginning.
Rains off a Smoky
Sky – A Step Ahead from just Living.
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