SATYAJIT ROY'S MOST UNCONVENTIONAL STORY,NOT FILMED

Poet Manindra Roy is credited to bring in one volume,three stories of Satyajit,entitled Anya

Rakam, which had in it Piku's Diary, Shakha Prasakha-ekti asamapta sanglap and ARYASKHARER

JANMA O MRITYU.A child-prodigy,Arya,hunts for the fount of his gene both in the hereditary

history of his father and mother,but in vain.He asks his father if he is of sinister

birth,then.Extremely overpowered by anger, the latter hits Arya on the head with a paper-

weight which costs Arya of his Maths-brain,though his inventive quality remains

unimpaired.Passing his vagrant rambling days in Giridhi,Arya,one day,busies himself to touch

his own-styled mission of life,`to rise to the level of birds'.Success comes soon,his home-made

nest of tailor-birds is mistaken by the latter as one of theirs.But sun-struck at death- bed,

Arya,with both eyes closed, seemed to grope in the darkness of oblivion`For the touch of a

hand that is gone,/And the sound of a voice that is still.'It's his mother's.----Reading it is feeling

it,feeling it is remembering it`long after it is heard nomore'.A story cannot be a moment's

monument,though it is expected to be so;it is purported to be a fit treasure for our memory,the

locker of the mind.

Aryashekhar's saga is truely a solitary and sad one. It reminds us how minute we are in the realm of things and death claims us all genius or not.

You've grsped the essence.Thank you very much.

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