Current mood:

chipper

ray of hope
so the ray in the heading actually refers to satyajit ray... yes, he is my ray of hope when im sitting at home with absolutely nothing to do..

now ray, as we all know, is an ace filmmaker... but personally, and this is just personal opinion mind you, i think he's a better story-teller... most of what he has written deals with the supernatural and with magic... but it's when u actually get into the meat of the story do u realise that it's really not about the supernatural... its about the human psyche and the tricks we play with our mind and the desperate attempts to control what we know beyond doubt is not ours to control... im confusing u, right??

well it isn't really confusing... after all the supernatural is an extension of our psyche whether we admit to it or not... and these stories are just a portrayal of the twists and turns the mind takes...

the first time i read his collection of short stories.. i was quite young... and at that time it just seemed like a collection of ghost stories with sufficient doses of haunted houses and curses from holy men and after lives... but as the mind matures, it sees the gentle mockery in the stories... mocking how cock-sure we are of ourselves and mocking how we presume to know and understand the other world...

but the truth is we don't and we shouldn't try to... and that is more than evident from ray' stories... dont invade the space of the dead... or u might end up joining them.. creepy thought isn't it...

so i would reccomend both collections to u...

20 short stories and
Indigo stories

both written by Ray and translated from Bengali by Gopa Majumdar...
definitely worth a dekko!