Book Review of Tales From Firozsha Baag
Tales from Firozsha Baag, though a lesser known work by Rohinton Mistry, still captures with vividity, the rich and complex patterns of life of lower middle class families inhabiting an apartment in Bombay.
The book is a collection of eleven interrelated stories that are as touching as they are humourous.
Characterisation is Mistry’s forte and you get a glimpse of his imagination as he sketches Jaakaylee, an ayah and the Baag’s ghost seer! The simplicity of her feelings are brought out through a compelling illustration of her day to day activities…the way she gets teased by kids of the baag for seeing a bhoot….the way her confession stops her periodic troubles with the bhoot.
’The collectors’ portray the feelings of an adoloscent who gets addicted to stamp collection and gets carried away! It also portrays how events hurt…how interests fade. I did appreciate the ending of the story where after getting a boxful of precious stamps from Dr. Mody, Jehangir lets it rot…and is unaffected and unrepentent!
’Condolence visit’ is a story of a widow whose calmness soothe…whose scoff at traditions is touching….whose love for her beloved, who is no more, is pure and untainted.
One of the best stories of the book is ’Of White Hairs and Cricket’. Itz the story of a father and a son subtly told! Nothing dramatic happens in the story…but the way it captures the relationship shared by the father and the son is touching…the plucking of gray hairs, the visits to the cricket ground, the pigeons, the bicycles and dreams…and the fear of losing them all!
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