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SPECIAL SERIES Alka Saravgi, 39 MS INSIGHT A lady from a traditional joint family of Marwaris of Calcutta is supposed to stay put. Alka Saravgi obviously thinks otherwise. Her first novel Kali-Katha: via Bypass published last year stirred the Hindi literary world so much that it was seen as a sign of revival of the Hindi novel. Says noted writer and critic Vijay Mohan Singh. "The outer and the inner worlds of Calcutta's Marwaris have been woven marvellously." The novel has received the prestigious Shrikant Verma Award. Sararvgi says her greatest worry is that "idealism is vanishing from our life and society". That compulsion has prompted her to start a new novel. This time it's a story of an elderly woman who lives, breathes social service. Timid? It will certainly be a journey into another inner world. And if it's even half as good as her first, the journey would have been worthwhile. -Ashok Kumar |
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