![]() The chapters between the stories tell us about the reactions of the young men to the story. An excellent story teller, Manik regales his younger and impressionable friends with five short stories over a period of six afternoons. The narrator and his friends often get together at Manik Mulla’s house where the conversation would veer towards love and politics. He works for the railways, in a job, that gives him enough time to come up with stories. The book starts off with an anonymous narrator who introduces the main protagonist, Manik Mulla. Manik Mulla, a man of Kashmiri origin, is a part celebrity in the small town that the young narrator lives. I came across this English translation ( The Sun’s Seventh Horse by the renowned Hindi writer, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ‘Ajneya’) at NBT some months back and since I remembered nothing of the movie, except that it starred Rajit Kapoor, this book landed on my to-be-read pile. The movie was based on a novella written by Dr Dharamvir Bharati in 1952. It remained etched in my memory mainly because it was made by the master film-maker, Shyam Benegal and it starred Rajit Kapoor, the underrated actor who immortalised Byomkesh Bakshi on TV. In the good old days when Doordarshan was the only channel we had, there was an art film called Suraj Ka Satvaan Ghoda that was aired. ![]()
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