Chippak: Childhood memoir in story form

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    A critical Review and Analysis of Garhwali short story ‘Chippak ‘(from ‘Nyuter’ –a Story Collection, 2012) written by Dinesh Dhyani

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                           Review by Bhishma Kukreti

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  Dinesh Dhyani wrote Garhwali short stories on different subjects. ‘Chippak’story is all about the childhood acts and child psychology. An eight-ten years old boy visits village Bazaar for ration shop sugar and kerosene.  He is mesmerized by looking at Bus at bus stop. The boy looses the kerosene tin. The boy is afraid of his grandmother and mother for his negligence that he lost kerosene tin.

The interesting fiction plot takes the readers to old Garhwal when bus was new to people of rural Garhwal and readers feel the childhood images.  The story writer Dinesh Dhyani could create a tension in the story from the child point of view. Naration is simple that the readers easily can imagine the characters and geographical aspects of Musykhand, Dhangalgan,Kalinka of Nainidanda region. The story is in first person narration. The story writer is successful in creating images/an atmosphere of childhood. There are no dialogues in the story but readers don’t miss dialogues.  The language is full of Nainidanda dialects.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti 17/1/2013

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