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Namaste\/\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947, aadaab\/\u0906\u0926\u093e\u092c\/\u0622\u062f\u0627\u0628, and welcome back to my blog series on the notorious Hindi-Urdu writer, Upendranath Ashk\/\u0909\u092a\u0947\u0928\u094d\u0926\u094d\u0930\u0928\u093e\u0925 \u0905\u0936\u094d\u0915\/\u0627\u067e\u0646\u062f\u0631\u0646\u0627\u062a\u06be \u0627\u0634\u06a9! If you haven\u2019t yet read parts 1<\/a> and 2<\/a>, you may want to do so before delving into this third and final part.<\/p>\n

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Image by BentheCM on Flickr; Panchgani, Maharashtra, where Ashk sought treatment for tuberculosis in the Bel Air Sanatorium.<\/p><\/div>\n

After his third marriage to fan and fellow writer, Kaushalya Devi, Ashk soon sought further stimulation and increased compensation in the world of Hindi films. In 1944, he moved to Bombay, where he wrote screenplays and dialogue for Filmistan<\/em>, a production company. It was during this stint working in Hindi films that Ashk was inspired to write one of his most famous plays, Toofan se Pehle\/\u0924\u0942\u092b\u093c\u093e\u0928 \u0938\u0947 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947<\/em> (Before the Storm<\/em>), which, due to its hearty critique of communalism (or the tendency of people from the same religious, ethnic and\/or cultural background to band together against those who are \u201cdifferent\u201d from them), was banned by the British government as incendiary. In 1946, Ashk was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decided to receive treatment in the Bel Air Sanatorium in Panchgani a year later (a hill station in Maharashtra). During his stay there, Ashk\u2019s semi-autobiographical tome, Girti Divare\/\u0917\u093f\u0930\u0924\u0940 \u0926\u0940\u0935\u093e\u0930\u0947\u0902<\/em> (Falling Walls<\/em>) was published, and he composed a notable poem, \u201cBharghad ki beti\/\u092c\u0930\u0917\u0926 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u0947\u091f\u0940\u201d in 1947. And, luckily for us, he wrote a short story, “Mr. Ghatpande\/\u092e\u093f\u0938\u094d\u091f\u0930 \u0918\u093e\u091f\u092a\u093e\u0902\u0921\u0947,” which is loosely based on his experiences in the sanatorium and is sure to put even the most serious reader in stitches.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After being discharged from the sanatorium in 1948, Ashk and his contemporary, Nirala (about whom I also wrote a blog<\/a>), received the munificence of the government of Uttar Pradesh in the form of 5000 rupees each to aid them in recovering from their ill health. This allowance enabled Ashk to move to Allahabad, the hub of Hindi literary activity at the time, with his wife and son, Neelabh. Ashk remained here until his death in 1996. Once there, Kaushalya Devi started a printing press, named after her son (Neelabh Prakashan\/\u0928\u0940\u0932\u093e\u092d \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0936\u0928), with the money she received from the Indian government due to her \u201crefugee\u201d status (she had to move from present-day Pakistan to present-day India during partition). At this time, it was common for writers to start their own printing presses to publish their work as publishers were often untrustworthy and unethical. Ashk continued writing and rabble rousing far into his advanced years, even becoming the first Hindi playwright to be awarded the Sangeet\/\u0938\u0902\u0917\u0940\u0924 (Music) Natak\/\u0928\u093e\u091f\u0915 (Play) Akademi Award for his oeuvre of plays in 1965.<\/p>\n

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Image by ptwo on Flickr; Khusru Bagh (garden) in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.<\/p><\/div>\n

And now, enjoy the third part of Upendranath Ashk’s short story, “Daaliye\/\u0926\u093e\u0932\u093f\u092f\u0947” (“The Daal Eaters”):<\/p>\n

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At about six in the evening, we arrived in Batot (name of a town). I was very tired: firstly, I hadn\u2019t slept the previous night and, secondly, Bhalla Sahab\u2019s illustrious daughters\u2019 earsplitting Lata Mangeshkar renditions had ruined the thirty minutes to one hour I had rested my eyes in the bus. I had booked a room for the night in the same hotel in front of which the bus stopped. There were two cots and a veranda; there wasn\u2019t much light, nor was the space very open, but you could get hot water in the morning. There was no need to go far for chai (tea) or food; also, the rate was two and a half rupees. So, we decided we would stay right here and ordered chai.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bhalla Sahab, accompanied by his sister-in-law and little girls, disembarked a bit later. He thought it necessary to look at the hotels we had passed first. He also took Chopra Sahab and his family with him. Having gotten our luggage brought into our room, we had drunk half of our chai when he, leading the way, climbed the stairs of our hotel with his hands in his pockets. His fair-complexioned, fat body was twice the size of a normal person\u2019s; he was of average height and his round, fat cheeks shone as if he massaged them every day with butter. He was wearing an open-necked shirt and dark green corduroy pants. If his middle-aged, completely old-fashioned wife, his seemingly uneducated yet nevertheless literate sister-in-law and his dirty, foul-looking children had not been with him, he would have looked like a well-to-do official. Remembering what he had said about buying a Hillman (a type of car), I thought that he was a nouveau-riche merchant, who was himself rather refined, but whose family were still rolling around in the same old mud. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image by Nathan Hughes Hamilton on Flickr; Kashmir in 1951, just four years before this story was published.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cTell me, Artist Sahab, where have you booked a room?\u201d Bhalla Sahab said as he climbed the stairs.\u2028\u201cOh, hello! We\u2019re just drinking chai for the time being,\u201d I laughed, \u201cIf we have the energy, we\u2019ll look for a room.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s getting late.\u201d\u2028\u201cIf we can\u2019t find anything else, we\u2019ll stay right here,\u201d I said wearily, \u201cOur luggage has been brought here. You can get rooms for only two and a half rupees each upstairs.\u201d\u2028And, taking his party with him, Bhalla Sahab stomped upstairs; a little while later he came back, turning up his nose in contempt: \u201cThose are very dirty and dark rooms; how did you land on one of them!\u201d\u2028And he left, thinking he could find a decent, airy and spacious hotel further ahead.\u2028 As soon as he left, my wife began complaining, \u201cYou just sat down here; if you had taken a little initiative and looked around, wouldn\u2019t we have found a decent, cheap room too?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cMadam, those people will come right back.\u201d Hearing her (the Artist\u2019s wife), a hotel employee said, \u201cThe rest house is full. The tents are set up a bit further ahead. But, for one, they\u2019re very cold and, second, the fee is three rupees. You won\u2019t find a cheaper or more comfortable hotel than this in Batot. If you experience any discomfort, we\u2019re ready to serve you in any way; those people wanted a room for one and a half rupees. They kept arguing for ten minutes upstairs. Even if they wander all over Batot, they won\u2019t find a cheaper place than this anywhere.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And the hotel employee was right. After about thirty minutes to an hour, Bhalla Sahab came back with his party. As if doing us a great favor, he said, \u201cThere, Artist Sahab, we\u2019re staying here too.\u201d And then he said, gesturing toward Chopra Sahab and the rest, \u201cThey wanted a more spacious and airy room, but I said to them that travelers should always stay together on a journey. That\u2019s why I thought: wherever you\u2019re staying, we\u2019ll stay there too.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image by Nitin Badhwar on Flickr; another view of Dal Lake.<\/p><\/div>\n

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And he took the hotel employee to one side and kept fighting with him in whispers for fifteen to twenty minutes. Once, we heard his voice\u2014\u201cThen, we\u2019ll go across the street, there are much better rooms there.\u201d\u2028But the hotel employee didn\u2019t budge an inch; finally, Bhalla Sahab took a room.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you need another cot, you can get one for four aanas.\u201d The hotel employee said as he was coming back.\u2028\u201cWe\u2019ll take those out too,\u201d Bhalla Sahab said while going upstairs, \u201cWe\u2019ve never been able to sleep on bed bugs anyway.\u201d And then, looking in my direction, he spoke, \u201cYou too, Artist Sahab, make up your bed on the floor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chopra Sahab worked in the editing department of one of Delhi\u2019s famous English daily newspapers; he made a good salary. I thought that Bhalla and Chopra must have taken separate rooms, but in the morning I found out that Bhalla Sahab had forced Chopra to let him stay with them. \u201cOh, brother, your family wants to sleep on the cots; so, you sleep inside the room. We\u2019ll make our beds on the veranda, we like the open air anyway,\u201d he had said. And, thus, helpless, Chopra Sahab was compelled to spend the night with the Bhallas. And, in this way, both of them enjoyed the night for only one and a quarter rupees each.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He (Bhalla Sahab) didn\u2019t even eat in the hotel. When we told him that you could get very good food in this hotel, he said carelessly that he had brought a brazier and coal with him; therefore, he would fire up the brazier with glee, make parathas, cook chicken (chicken could be gotten cheaply anyway) and have a celebration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the entire story is too long to fit into a blog format but, if you’d like to read the small part of the story that is left, I highly recommend Daisy Rockwell’s translation of some of Ashk’s short stories, entitled Hats and Doctors<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Namaste\/\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947, aadaab\/\u0906\u0926\u093e\u092c\/\u0622\u062f\u0627\u0628, and welcome back to my blog series on the notorious Hindi-Urdu writer, Upendranath Ashk\/\u0909\u092a\u0947\u0928\u094d\u0926\u094d\u0930\u0928\u093e\u0925 \u0905\u0936\u094d\u0915\/\u0627\u067e\u0646\u062f\u0631\u0646\u0627\u062a\u06be \u0627\u0634\u06a9! If you haven\u2019t yet read parts 1 and 2, you may want to do so before delving into this third and final part. After his third marriage to fan and fellow writer, Kaushalya Devi, Ashk soon sought…<\/p>\n

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