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Randhir's
FICTION
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Over
The Edge
(RUPA
& CO.)
Biren’s
trip to Calcutta to crack a writer’s block turns
into an obsessive journey of self-discovery that leads
him through the unknown lives of strangers into a
web of relationships that is set deeper than  family
and community. It is a journey which balances perilously
between living and dying, waking and dreaming, losing
and finding, until he is drawn over the edge and falls
into his real self.
This is a novel about arrivals and departures and
those moments when kindred souls discover each other…
it’s about finding when not searching, about
arriving even when you think that you have not set
out.
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The
narrative is suffused with the lives of fringe-people like hard-living
Zady, desperately sexy ‘Cherry Pie’, smooth talking
Father Patrick, Roddy the undertaker who calls himself a ‘travel
agent’, Ethel and her countless siblings, the Brazilian
Ma G Spot, Maria – the Hawaiian-born wanderer spawned by
hippy parents on the beaches of Goa, Clarissa the Swedish bombshell,
Benito – the spaghetti cooking Italian big-mouth…and
the overwhelming presence of the bizarre Joseph Mellow who crosses
over as easily from the waking into the dreaming world as he does
from his apartment to the next – sliding along a water pipe
like a gecko.
Brilliantly revealed through multiple narrators, inner and outer
worlds merge in a delectable social, emotional and sexual fugue.
A FUSION OF LITERATURE, MUSIC & ART
The novel was released by an avid group of post-graduate students
of Nowrosjee Wadia College on September 16, 2006.
"This
programme by the students is an effort to encourage an interest
in books and literary and artistic issues. I am trying my best
to support their initiative. Three students have actually written
extensive papers and will be presenting them on that day. One
is on William Faulkner's novel The Sound and The Fury and the
second is on my novel Over The Edge." explained Randhir.
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The programme was divided in two parts. First, reading of the
novel by Khare himself accompanied by Pandit Mukund on the tabla.
The second part is an audiovisual presentation on the novel from
a reader’s  perspective
by Zubin and Masha Mistry.
“It’s like the two sides of a coin. Both programmes
complement each other" explains Khare.
“The music here is neither an accompaniment, nor an accessory
to the reading. Instead, it is very much part of it,” Khare
reveals. “I am reading the last bit of the novel, which
is a long poem. What Pt Mukund would be doing is to create the
moods that the words evoke.”
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