A SUITABLE NOVEL...

“How do you read this much digest novel?” a person asked me, sitting in a sleeper class compartment.
I replied, “I don’t have to complete it in one day, it takes me several days, sometimes a few months and it is very interesting novel, every time I read two pages it makes me more curious to go further”.
It happens when you see somebody to have such a digest novel and u become impatient because of the thickness of it. When I was a child I too became agitated and can’t digest the digest novels, but gradually my age overpowers this habit and now I develop little patience for novels and digests.
Recently I saw Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable boy’, oh my God!! How he had written it? I was stunned- amazed-dazed as it contains 1273 pages. It was a huge novel, having a big and heavy size. I wonder how anyone carries it on a trip and I have no doubt if I throw it on anyone he get injured or if he is unlucky possibly he can die also. Then I thought may be, he (Vikram Seth) is the most patient person in the world. The shock took me to remember my mathematics book of 12th class (R.D.sharma), I think it has more pages than this novel. Certainly I realize reading a novel is an easy task than solving those horny calculus questions. If I could solve those horniest thing, than I can read this novel also. Thanks for R.D.sharma for boosting my patience.
My friend is also a writer, in fact a very good writer. He is writing a three novels and one among them is on my life, not a biography (hehehe…not yet a starry life) but on a particular experience of my life.
I told him,“see Vikram Seth’s ‘a Suitable boy', you should take inspiration from him. He has written such a huge novel and you are not able to complete one single novel also”. Then he replied in a funny way, “Why shouldn’t I combine my all three novels and make it a multiple story novel like what Ram Gopal Verma did in his films ‘Darna mana hai’ and ‘Darna zaroori hai’.” I quickly responded,”Then I m sure bhai, people will address it as a 'A. ki novel' (RGV’s ki aag)” and we both broke into a laugh.
Well after this long perpetual incidence, I made my mind to buy “a suitable boy” and at least once in my lifetime I should have to read this heavy novel. So that I can say to my friends, that I am not impatient person because I read “A SUITABLE BOY”.


- MOHAMMED FARHAN KHAN