Nandola: Short Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals

Critical Review of Modern Garhwali Short Stories -151

Modern Garhwali short Story by Dr. Asha Rawat -6,

    A critical Review and Analysis of Garhwali short story ‘Nandola ‘(Shailvani, 1^stMarch, 2008) by Dr Asha Rawat  

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                                                    Review by Bhishma Kukreti

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     Dr Asha Rawat invariably writes Garhwali fiction on women subject. Specially, she depicts the inner side of Garhwali women perfectly in her Garhwali stories. In present Garhwali story ‘Nandola’, Dr. Asha Rawat portrays the deep affection by a rural woman for her caw.  Nandola was married to a prosperous farmer family where there was no sign of poverty. There were ups and downs in her life as human beings.  Nandola is mother of two sons and two daughters in laws. However, due to daily quarrel among family members, Nandola’s husband Yaspal divides the family. Nandola has an old caw Bindwa(white spot on the forehead) that was given to her one daughters in law while dividing the family properties. Her daughter in law sells Bindwa immediately. Nandola had deep affection, love for the caw as the caw was part of Nandola’s life for many years. Nandola fell ill and do not take meal. Her husband takes a decision to get back the caw (Bindwa).

          The story writer created many images of rural daily life specially the life of women in rural Garhwal. Dr Rawat also shows the deep emotional attachment of women for her domestic animals. The dialects are from Badalpur, Paino, Padalsyun regions. The dialogues are used to speed up the story and depiction of emotional values.  Story writer is successful in developing characters.  

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti 7/11/2012

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Commentary  on Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Garhwali Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Uttarakhandi Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Mid Himalayan Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Himalayan Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; North Indian Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Indian Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; SAARC Countries Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; South Asian Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Asian Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals; Oriental  Story depicting affection or deep love for caw or domestic animals to be continued…

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