September 25, 2008 in Links
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I wonder how we came to a point at which young persons—of a class that once viewed military service as an ordinary expression of its own privileged relationship to the state—could come to see the act of entering service as an oddity requiring special explanation.
I say to those concerned looks and furrowed brows: Relax. I’m still me. I’m not suffering an early midlife crisis (or any other kind). I’m not searching for something or running away from something else. I’m not angry, and I’m not trying to make a statement. I’m just doing some military service, at a time when that service can do some good
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The philosophy of government that has dominated Washington for almost three decades is now in ruins, and it is up to Mr. McCain to find out exactly why we believed it in the first place. Why did government stand back and permit all the misconduct that generated all this bad debt? What particular ideas led us to believe that government should just keep its hands off and let markets run their course?
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Anyway, to the point of this post: At the height of my being pissed off with Divakarunni’s book, I re-read a couple of my favorites, including the books of ‘MTV’ and Balakrishnan [the latter, incidentally, is conceptually on the same lines as Palace of Illusions, in that the Karna-Draupadi relationship is a dominant theme—but there the similarity ends]. And that in turn led me to attempt a recreation of MTV’s Randaamoozham.
It is not a translation. It is not even a transcreation, if you go by the accepted meaning of the term. What it is, is a re-telling, in which—with profound respect for one of my favorite writers—I intend to stay faithful to the central narrative and its governing emotional undercurrents, but manipulate time lines and incidents, and where necessary even chapter progressions, to suit my own narrative.
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