SimsimOld Basar Mal remembers his love and homeland that he lost in Sindh, Pakistan during the Partition. A young graduate gets into an imaginary relationship with a girl at a yellow window. The Mumbai land mafia is after Basar Mal and his library. A chatty book cover relates the plight of books. A silent Mangan's ma washes and feeds a plastic doll she thinks is her son. Poignantly written by Geet Chaturvedi, a major Hindi writer, and beautifully translated by Anita Gopalan, Simsim is a struggle between memory, imagination, and reality- an exquisitely crafted book that fuses the voices of remarkable yet relatable characters to weave a tale of seeking happiness, fulfilling passion, and reconciling with loss. Simsim is charming, and wonderfully original. |
Contents
My Name is | |
My Name is | |
The Book Cover Tells a Tale | |
The Old Mans Story | |
The Old Woman is Silent | |
The Old Mans Story | |
My Name is I | |
Common terms and phrases
Abbas Allah aroma autorickshaw Baloch Basar Mal Jetharam Basar Mal's beat Bhau Padhye body chair dance Dayal dead Dil Khush doll door dream dust English everything eyes face father feel felt Flora Fountain front gaze girl guava hand head Hindi Hindu Hindustan imagination Imbelo Imre Kertész inside Jaam Jalo Jetharam Purswani Jhulelal killed land Larkana laughing laughter lips live look lost madrasa Mangan's Mangan's Ma memory muhajirs Muhammad bin Qasim Mumbai Muslims Mustafa Neel Sar never night Nirmal Verma once Pakistan paper Partition Perhaps rack refugee remember Resham Street Salim samosa Shahdadkot silent Simsim Sindhi Sindhu Library sitting sleep slowly smile someone sometimes standing stick stop story Syed tell thermos translated tree turned Uncle vada pav voice wait walking wall washing watch yellow window