In Custody 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
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In Custody
- Anita Desai
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The love of poetry and an Urdu poet elite in his poetry draws Deven, The protoganist to Delhi. Fed up of his repetitive life, teaching as a Hindi professor. He was lured by his friend Murad, editor of an Urdu magazine.
The book deals with how Deven helps saving the Urdu literature. All his miseries are poured out in the process. The poets inability to recite his verses, his lack of interest in modern technology. It also tells that an audience helps us keep going. Whereas Deven is seen dancing with his problematic household college and his old classmate, the editor. With a plain, sober cover with green on the front shows the sophistication in the seemingly simple lives of the great poet, Deven and Murad.
Deven's initiative to save the lost, rich language and to continue his lost love of Urdu is deeply appreciated by its readers. The diminishing languages and our inability to keep them alive makes us pathetic in our own lifestyles. Although the theme is latent in its actual means.
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Why should you read In Custody?
- Brings about a cause of language extinction
- Gives a message of Do what you love!
- If you love classics, Anita's writing styles are a new form from the regular ones
- Poetry is embedded in the soul of this book.
The writing of Anita Desai is rich. It stresses upon our roles to strengthen our culture. The constant mentioning of the decline in Urdu readers gave us an insight as to where we're taking our inherited heritage.
The writer does not traumatize in order to grab reader's emotions but gives them the reason to ponder on the losses we have already done. The story is left open ended. It is upon us to believe whether Deven has saved some of the most important verses, poetries of the Urdu language or he could have done better.
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