Kosala means cocoon, in 1963 Shree Bhalchandra Nemade
wrote this Marathi novel ‘Kosala’. Even today in 2019 Kosala remains relevant
and it is it’s one of the biggest strengths. In Kosala many readers have found
different meanings in many different ways.
In the very beginning of the book, Nemade has
dedicated this book to "all the 99 out of 100 people" and I agree to
that, the main character of this novel indeed represents the 99% people of the
society.
In reality, just like the main character of Kosala a large majority of youngsters do waste a lot of time in the most crucial years when they are between 16 to 25 years of age – as they struggle to decide and identify the path on which they want to walk in future, it is crucial phase of their life when they are about to decide their future, their career, their life style, their goals…… for most of us this phase is a combination of our dreams, challenges and the circumstances around us, however many times due to laziness, due to unnecessary stubbornness, due to our doubts on the intelligence of our well-wishers and our disagreements with our parents & family we waste a lot of time.
However, this entire process of struggle makes few people stronger & better – eventually they are able to identify a deserving goal and are able to walk towards it, where as there are few who get completely lost and just get dragged towards something which they never planned or wished for themselves. If they would have taken some extra efforts, or would have remained patient and would have listened to their well-wishers then there would have some possibility of them being on a better path. In Kosala the main character finds his own way…. Anyways as its mentioned in the beginning it is the story of 99% people in our society. There are always those 1% people who are able to fight against all the odds & are able to achieve something extraordinary which always remains beyond the reach of common people.
Even our preferences, opinions & liking get changed over the period of time, the main character of Kosala eventually avoid his best friend – its sad to read how the main character decides not to meet his best friend even when his friend is about to leave for forever to a different city, though there is no possibility of them being able to meet again and though his best friend does everything possible to meet him for the last time our main character of Kosala decides not to meet him even for once.
It does happen with all of us many times that someone who was very dear to us for a long time in life, someone whom we loved, we put all our trust, the same person over the period of time becomes a stranger or an absolutely different person. The more we know that person the more we start creating a distance from him or her which is completely against our own behavior which was there at the beginning of our interactions with that person. The most hurting part of such relations is this that when we realize that we are not as important or as significant for that person as that person is to us and it really shatters us…..
The chapter where the younger sister of Kosala’s main character dies…. It disturbs us to the core. Death is as inevitable as it is mysterious. And no one so far is been able to resolve this mystery, this is indeed a very big topic itself for everyone to think…..
Kosala is unique in many ways… and everyone who reads it will find something unique. Have you read Kosala?
Marathi: Kosala by Bhalchandra Nemade
Translations
Hindi: Kosala by Bhagwandas Verma
Gujarati: Kosheto by Usha Sheth
Kannada: Kosala by Vaman Bendre
Punjabi: Kosala by Ajeet Singh
Asamiya: Palur Vaah by Kishorimohan Sharma
English: Cocoon by Sudhakar Marathe
Bengali: Need by Vandana Hajra
Urdu: Kosala by Musharraf Alam Jauki
Oriya: Koshapok by Cheershree Indrasingh
In reality, just like the main character of Kosala a large majority of youngsters do waste a lot of time in the most crucial years when they are between 16 to 25 years of age – as they struggle to decide and identify the path on which they want to walk in future, it is crucial phase of their life when they are about to decide their future, their career, their life style, their goals…… for most of us this phase is a combination of our dreams, challenges and the circumstances around us, however many times due to laziness, due to unnecessary stubbornness, due to our doubts on the intelligence of our well-wishers and our disagreements with our parents & family we waste a lot of time.
However, this entire process of struggle makes few people stronger & better – eventually they are able to identify a deserving goal and are able to walk towards it, where as there are few who get completely lost and just get dragged towards something which they never planned or wished for themselves. If they would have taken some extra efforts, or would have remained patient and would have listened to their well-wishers then there would have some possibility of them being on a better path. In Kosala the main character finds his own way…. Anyways as its mentioned in the beginning it is the story of 99% people in our society. There are always those 1% people who are able to fight against all the odds & are able to achieve something extraordinary which always remains beyond the reach of common people.
Even our preferences, opinions & liking get changed over the period of time, the main character of Kosala eventually avoid his best friend – its sad to read how the main character decides not to meet his best friend even when his friend is about to leave for forever to a different city, though there is no possibility of them being able to meet again and though his best friend does everything possible to meet him for the last time our main character of Kosala decides not to meet him even for once.
It does happen with all of us many times that someone who was very dear to us for a long time in life, someone whom we loved, we put all our trust, the same person over the period of time becomes a stranger or an absolutely different person. The more we know that person the more we start creating a distance from him or her which is completely against our own behavior which was there at the beginning of our interactions with that person. The most hurting part of such relations is this that when we realize that we are not as important or as significant for that person as that person is to us and it really shatters us…..
The chapter where the younger sister of Kosala’s main character dies…. It disturbs us to the core. Death is as inevitable as it is mysterious. And no one so far is been able to resolve this mystery, this is indeed a very big topic itself for everyone to think…..
Kosala is unique in many ways… and everyone who reads it will find something unique. Have you read Kosala?
Marathi: Kosala by Bhalchandra Nemade
Translations
Hindi: Kosala by Bhagwandas Verma
Gujarati: Kosheto by Usha Sheth
Kannada: Kosala by Vaman Bendre
Punjabi: Kosala by Ajeet Singh
Asamiya: Palur Vaah by Kishorimohan Sharma
English: Cocoon by Sudhakar Marathe
Bengali: Need by Vandana Hajra
Urdu: Kosala by Musharraf Alam Jauki
Oriya: Koshapok by Cheershree Indrasingh
