Fajitu: Story depicting struggle of poor blacksmith (Low caste person)

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Critical review of Garhwali Story ‘Fajitu’ (2009) by Om Prakash Semwal  

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                           Review by Bhishma Kukreti

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       Om Prakash takes his characters from the society and depicts their struggle of uprising. Semwal is famous for is moralistic or idealistic stories.  Fajitu is an orphan blacksmith by caste and is indirectly a bonded labor of landlord.  Landlord arranges for Fajitu everything necessary to live. The landlord also arranged his marriage and his wife left Fajitu after their son becomes one year old. When landlord dies his two sons became out of line in terms of earning and behavior. Once the two brothers were beating their wives, Fajitu resisted their beating women. Both brothers bate Fajitu and people take Fajitu to hospital. 

      The story is simple and style is also conventional. Semwal develops the character of Fajitu very well. The story writer shows successfully the struggle and emotion of aloofness of Fajitu. As usual, the dialects are of upper Garhwal-Kedargahti.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti 15/11/2012

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