THE NAMESAKE

Name: THE NAMESAKE
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JHUMPA LAHIRI

Jul 2017 · MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE

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"...तसं पाहायला गेलं तर त्याचा सारा जीवनप्रवास अपघातांच्या मालिकेनंच भरलेला. सुरुवात झाली बाबांच्या गाडीला अपघात झाला त्या घटनेपासून.
...गोगोल हे नावही अपघातानंच त्याला मिळालं त्याच्या पणजीनं निवडलेलं नाव त्यांना अखेरपर्यंत समजलं नाही. कलकत्ता ते केंब्रिज ह्या प्रवासात तिचं पत्र कायमचंच गहाळ झालं. ह्या एका अपघाताचे परिणाम गोगोलला अनेक वर्षं भोगायला लागले. नाव देताना आयत्या वेळी बाबांना त्यांचा अपघात आठवला, ज्याच्या पुस्तकामुळं ते जीवानिशी वाचले त्या गोगोलच्या नावानं त्याचं नामकरण झालं.
या विचित्र नावानं त्याला खूप छळलं. मोठा झाल्यावर त्यानं ती चूक दुरुस्त केली; तरीही `गोगोल' नावानं त्याचा पिच्छा कधीच सोडला नाही...
...भविष्यात काय घडणार हे कधीच माहीत नसतं. सारं काही अचानक सामोरं येतं. त्यासाठी कोणत्याही प्रकारची तयारी करता येणं शक्य नसतं; परंतु तेच अनुभव गाठीशी बांधून त्यामागील कार्यकारणभाव शोधायला पुढचं सारं आयुष्य पडलेलं असतं आणि मग ध्यानात येतं की कधी घडायलाच नको होत्या अशा वा कोणतंही प्रत्यक्ष कारण दिसत नसताना घडलेल्या घटनांनीच आयुष्य भरलेलं आहे."

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His life was full of accidents; it started with the accident to his father`s train. That accident bestowed the name Gogol upon him. They could never know the name his great grandmother had selected for him. Her letter was lost during the journey from Kolkata to Cambridge. He had to suffer the consequences throughout his life. When it was time to decide on his name, his father remembered the accident which would have killed him, but the book had saved him, Gogol`s book; hence he was given the name. But this very name harassed him for many years. When he was quite old, he changed his name but still the consequences always accompanied him, throughout. We never know our future. Everything happens all of a sudden. We cannot prepare ourselves for the happenings. We carry forward the balance of these past events and lead our life through the future. When we try to find out the hidden meanings of the past, then we realize that life is full of events which should not have happened at all or which have a meaning to them of which we are never aware.

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