Radha by Krishna Dharabasi is wonderful novel based on traditional era of Lord Krishna and Radha. The traditional plot of the story makes the readers/listeners feel that Dharabasi is narrating us the same old story of love of Radha and Krishna. However , the story based on the traditional plot it portrays the modern era in a dramatic way such that it speaks of so many hidden things that we will be amazed while ending it up.
Radha and Krishna are the eternal lovers. Lord Krishna and Radha are together since childhood. But in teenage they are separated (as in the traditional story) and Lord Krishna has to go away leaving Vindraban for fulfilling the task for which he has taken birth.This brings tragedy to Radha and all the people in Vindraban.
Radha waits for Krishna to arrive but he seldom does. She is stubborn to go meet Krishna. Later she sets out as a Yogini in a long voyage to search self, leaving her parents. She is accompanied by her friend Bisakha everywhere she went.
Radha faces a lot of hardships along with her friend with whom she travels through different places. Later on another woman gets added in her journey. They are travelling and travelling till they decide to visit Krishna's place. Lord Krishna has a lot of wives but no one is in his heart as Radha is.Later on Radha again leaves the palace which was specially built for her along with her pals.
Then after travelling they come to live up with at a King's palace where Radha narrates her stories and writes. When the novel ends, it is being narrated by Aswothaama (अश्वत्थामा)
Radha is a novel of the love, determination and mainly it is about woman revolution against the patriarchal society.
Radha revolts tries to find salvation after being tragic-stricken. She proves that woman can tackle everything. She shows the woman power and the strength that it must be shown for securing the identity and our lives. Radha seeks independence from her family, friends and her love as well. She tries to find her own existence in the world. She tackles the social beliefs and social hierarchies.
The novel is well written and its poetic feelings and the sentences arranged is such as way that it creates a different feeling in the readers. It makes us to feel the same sentiments that Radha has felt throughout the novel. We, ourselves become Radha and travel all the places that Radha has travelled. Laugh when Radha laughs and equally cry with her woes and become as aggressive as Radha is in the novel.
The traditional plot tells us a modern story where a woman is never as before. The society is being democratic and male and females are equal. The novel also gives us the outline of the insurgency period of our country especially when the narrator speaks of the war and famine.
Well, overall my personal view while listening the novel, I broke down many times while listening it and felt the same aggressiveness. I put Radha in my favorite book list.
After you listen to such a wonderful novel with such a melodious voice, what else you want? Well, I heard Radha in Ujyalo 90 Network itself a year before. I was always too much desperate to listen it as it captivated me and my thoughts.
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This review is written by Sweta Baniya. We would like to thank her, for providing such an wonderful Review of Radha, a novel by Krishna Dharabasi. We would also like to thank Achyut Ghimire, Dinesh Niraula, Manteshwori RajBhandari, Sachindra Gautam and Sajita Hamal of Ujyalo 90 Network. And of course we would like to thank our listeners as well. Our each episode was downloaded more than 450 times. Radha became one of the hit series in Shruti Sambeg. From Next week, we will podcast a novel ‘Pyas Bhitra Ko Bidhro’ (प्यास भित्र को विद्रोह) by Taslima Nasrin in Shruti Sambeg.
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