Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) Flap Matter It’s the winner who is as a champion by the world, A HERO! But what about the identity of the loser? Even if the player loses by the difference of a hundredth of a second he has to go back, his dream of being on top of the victory stand totally shattered. Dreams age fast and become hoary. Just as a neglected land is covered with weeds and wild grass, water decaying in cavity and puddles is covered with green moss, a man, deprived of ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (2) The specimen of the box had designed on the basis of the photograph that the press owner’s daughter had taken during her trip to America. The specialty of the box was that the fruits packed in them did not look as if they had been plucked, they still seemed attached to the trees in natural way as if they had been wrapped in dried grass and straws there only. The fruit seller liked this box very much and soon he was identified with the pattern on ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (3) Father of the children interrupted “Actually, is no scarcity of water in our county, only one part receives very scanty rain. It is a desert with big sand dunes all over. Otherwise India is surrounded by sea on three sides, has many big perennial rivers and in Cherapunji….,” he wanted to enlighten the about the whole geography of the country he had read in school, after all it was the question of our country’s honour. But before the young woman showed any reaction, the mother’s gesture ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (4) Rasbi didn’t have money but she very hard-working, thrifty and careful. She did not left Kinjan feel there was much lack of money as whatever. She had was for him only. But if he needed her hard earned money for his project she felt he was slicing her heart in bits to feed vultures. She discouraged him, accusing him of wasting his time and money. Kinjan, on the other hand was only after his goal. What he ate or put on hardly mattered. He was prepared ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (5) Was happy. He knew he would across the tamarind shaped small orange fish that emits smoke from its body and clean water become murky. Hence deep waters look shallow and small insects come into that deep fast flowing current. The cunningness of that worldly golden fish often surprised. At times he wanted to catch and eat it. But as soon as he tried to catch it, the fish twined and twisted in such an agonizing way that one was filled with pity and gave up the ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (6) Till noon Rasbi was in a sleep almost in a state of unconsciousness. When she opened her eyes she realized she had fallen down and was lying on the floor. She had tried to imprison the heavy sheet of tidal waves in her hand but it was the bed sheet she was gripping tightly in her hand. The blood on her palms had dried. She introspected the violent tempest of feelings that shook her, though Kinjan had gone only for a few days. When he leaves ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (7) Kinjan himself lifted the plate, it still hot. He looked from the corner of his eye, the mother had hit him but looked uncomfortable, she was looking at the wound again and again. Kinjan knew his mother was so tense. She could hurt herself as well. Hence he checked himself and did not open his mouth. Very silently he slides out of the room like an innocent pigeon who does not know why the eagle had attacked him. When the door-bell rang , Rasbi was putting ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (8) “Yet what Nana?” “What I mean say is the distance between this world and that world is not so much that none can come back.” What do you mean? Has anyone come to life after death? “No not exactly that but there is a possibility and it has happened that a person is not completely, properly dead.” “What is meant by that? How can a person die and still not die completely?” The three asked together. “If a person goes earlier then the time fixed for ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (9) Next morning as soon as the came up, a knock from the policeman also was there. The police informed him his mother was no more in this world. There was a total darkness in Kinjan’s life which even the new rising sun could no dispel. The door-bell rang at midday. Kinjan opened the door and saw a car in front in front of it that he knew so well. The women from New York poured out all sympathies for the failure of Kinjan’s mission and collected ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (10) The old man often insisted that should accompany him to Jeddah where he would meet a number of his relative but somehow to Kinjan this all seemed fictitious as he had never heard about it from his mother. His mother was a woman who loved America with all her heart and who after losing her husband, a dedicated soldier, wanted to send her son to the same American army where her husband had lost his life. And now had left this would with her unfulfilled dream. ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (11) Kinjan somehow managed a holiday and to spend some time outside Buffalo City. His friends called it a honeymoon trip and looked after his business with so much dedication that he would not suffer any loss, as if he had gone on some spiritual mission. In a remote corner of his heart, Kinjan had sweet memories of a small city Grove, like a flower one after put between the pages of a book. Actually this was the place where he used to go to school in ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (12) Kinjan had also heard the Baba ‘Panna! Panna’, and it flashed through his mind that he sometimes called Perina ‘Panni’, a term of endearment. Now the other young man turned back, came near Baba and holding his hand took him back his cave. Kinjan too was normal now and stood on one side. She old women told Perina that “Panna” is an Indian gem and is embossed on rings and other ornaments. Perina liked the information but the women had no answered to her other question. ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (13) In the morning, when Perina came wake him up with a cup of coffee and it on the table, she burst into an uncontrollable laughter because he had slided down from the bed and was sprawled on the floor. She went on laughing… could mights followed by warm morning… thousands of such nights… thousands of such morning… thousands of such dreams… thousands of such wishes… rowing the boat of life on waves of time… the intoxicating infectious ringing of laughter awakened Della too, who came out ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (14) “That’s ok Baba, but please tells why you shouted Panna Panna when you saw Kinjan?” Emra asked. Baba explained, “This ‘spirit’ that got itself stuck to Kinjan had appeared before me previously too, so I recognized it…” Emra was astounded. Not a single word came out of her mouth and she just gaped. She was bathed in cold sweat as she realized that the Baba was already well acquainted with the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ Panna, whom he had seen through Kinjan. He furthers explained that it ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (15) But just as parents do not their children to wear their cast off garments in the same way the new generation does not want to stay in the rooms of their predecessors unless there is some compulsion. The youth have their own style of living and would not like to see the expressions it might bring in their elder’s eyes. Hence it is out of respect for them and not due to disobedience or disrespect to them that they want their own space. The date of ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (16) But when they returned, their activities momentum. Perina and Della sensed that Kinjan was not only avoiding either. They planned the programmed in such a way that Kinjan could stay out of their company conveniently. Sometimes during conversation between Mr. Ho and Kinjan, the atmosphere grew tense. And then one day what Della said was no less than an explosion. She informed that from Mr. Ho’s country a group has already arrived that would cross America’s sorld famous Niagra Falls in a special boat. The information ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (17) All were listing intently rapt in when Grandpa’s (Nana’s) Story came to an end. It was their daily routine’s after dinner children went to Grandpa (Nana) and the story continued like a flowing stream, the story that ripped and swirled in series like a cascade reflecting the scenes and characters as if a motion picture was going on in front of their eyes. Their parents were also flabbergasted as they listened. The best part was that as the children listened to the story the fear of ...Read More

Beyond The Water (Translation of Hindi Novel - Jal Tu Jalal Tu) (18) When children’s mother had come to City with granddaughter of Grandpa she was surprised that these young ladies knew only one thing about India that an actress Simmi Grewal lived there and there was great shortage of water in the country. A grater surprise awaited her when she saw a lot of books and diaries or Grandpa’s book-shelf that had a lot of information about India. She had been taught in India that one should never read other person’s diary, so she did not concentric on ...Read More