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Cobalt blue- Sachin Kundalkar- S2 MA-Literatures of India- University of Kerala

Cobalt Blue, a brief novel written originally by Sachin Kundalkar, in Marathi, in 2006 and it was translated in English by Jerry Pinto in 2013.Sachin Kundalkar is a famous Marathi playwright, film director and screenplay writer. He also won the National Award for Nirop (2007) and Gandha (2009). He has written this novel when he was just 20. According to Kundalkar Cobalt Blue “is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity”. In the Joshi family there are five members. Baba, Aai, Aseem (elder son), Tanay (Younger son) and Anuja (daughter). Aseem is the most favourable child of the couple while Tanay and Anuja are rebel. Tanay is a gay and the family is unaware about it. The twist in their life starts when a paying guest enters the family with no address, no caste, no home, no family and even no name. He frames love saga first with Tanay and later on with Anuja. This brought both the brother and sister to grave sorrow and pain. For Tanay, he was no less than his soulmate. He started spending most of his time in the upstairs room with the PG. The room where the PG stayed was the room of Tanay’s grandparents’ illness. The smell of “Amrutanjan”(balm) stayed everywhere in the room. Although Tanay remained in relationship with other men also yet the entry of PG created an aura of love around him. The times when the novel was written originally in 2006 in Marathi it could be assumed as an LGBTQ novel. But the motive was quite different. Sachin Kundalkar himself says about the theme that he kept in his mind about the novel,“ Thank fully, no one calls it a gay novel anymore. Now about 12 years later, I feel the brother and the sister are not two people but masculine and feminine sides of the same person. And the book is thus, in turns, a feminine and a masculine monologue.” The favourite colour of the PG was Cobalt Blue, it was the colour of his canvas also. Blue, the colour of loneliness, which he poured into the lives of Tanay and Anuja. He always kept an option in his life. Tanay and Anuja were also like the substitutes for him. The other half of the novel contains the memories of Anuja in the form of her diary. She eloped with the PG as she thought he loved her. She had written her experience with the PG in the diary after her psychiatrist, Dr. Khanvilkar suggested her to do so. Her diary provides the fact how Anuja found herself being robbed and endangered. Her condition was pathetic. She was shifted to her Maushi’s home where she tried to gain her lost confidence. Anuja tried to kill herself but couldn’t. Anuja’s grief is more visible. Her bowling and depression expressed her pain to everyone. On the other hand Tanay’s grief inherited him and hold with clutches. He can’t share her situation with anyone not even with Anuja. A person who betrayed both the siblings and what an irony that they can’t share their feelings. Tanay’s family assumed that he is lost due to Anuja’s elopement and he was missing her sister. No one could even guess what the hell he was facing inside. After Anuja returned home she faced the prejudiced family and society. All that Anuja needed was the love and care of the family but instead family wanted a quick recovery from the memories of her past.The evocation of PG haunt her every moment. She roamed to find him missing but he had not returned. He left for never returning back. He took all his stuff along him, like he had planned it before. The source of pain is same for both siblings but the expression of grief is totally different. Anuja is free to cry, she has the reason and society approves it but for Tanay what could be the reason to cry? He could not express that he is broken as his soulmate trenched him. Yes he could not, because it will bring disaster in his family. It will reveal her identity as mere a gay. He would be considered guilty. No one is going to console him. That’s the hidden treasure of Tanay where he kept all his grief hidden from the narrow minded society. Anuja doubted herself for taking wrong decisions throughout her life. Tanay planned to go to Mumbai and search for some work. He was going to translate one of Manto’s stories and turn it into a play with his friend. Now as Anuja returned home he understood well that the loss of his love was nothing as that person loved no one. Now he had no tears, but only memories that surge him back still he was firm. Anuja determined that she will do something for herself and live the life on her terms. She decided to join Green Earth, started preparing for job interview and joined the training session. She wanted to pour herself into the life where there will be no signs of sorrow. She wanted to vanish every sign of disappointment. She decided to earn and save. Cobalt Blue is a legendary novel that shows how sufferings and obstacles give the shape to human character and make him rediscover his true strength and power.