In this difficult time , perusing your hobby is becoming a luxury. You don’t have time , when you have some there is no temperament to peruse what you love to. Yes pandemic has taken a toll on all of us . We wish the virus to vanquish , we all wish to revenge the devastation it has caused . We are seeing innumerable accounts of hatred created out of it also.
When you are away from what you enjoy things get suffocating. So I needed to reconcile with reading . But it is tough to have the royal combination of time and mindset amidst . I resorted to graphic novel once again and read two cult book Maus (Art Spiegelman
) and ‘Palestine (Joe Sacco ) in last year.
Maus – is about empathic narration of a son who revisits his father’s life through his neutral eye and tells the story of Fathers fate from an elite businessman in Reich to a Nazi prisoner to an immigrant in US holding to his charm and believe .
Whereas Palestine is a travelogue kind of graphic book where author look into the misery of Palestine through emphatic ,satirical and at time gripping account of life in Palestine.
Both are true events
The backgrounds are interconnected
Both have successfully connected to the readers with the message that how things go beyond control once it slips away from your hand. The accounts told in the story goes beyond the narration time if we go to search roots of the problem. For more than thousand years one conflict has chronicled into layers of conflict across the globe. The entangled identity of religion ,race , language and pride and revenge have plagued and mankind again and again.
We have attained knowledge but we have not learnt from it.
Repeated efforts to change the course of history has always been mercilessly boomeranged. And to seek a revenge of Historical misfortune would lead to more holocaust.
We all know all that but still we fall in this trap again and again …
The time , misfortune and misery of recent time is ripe for similar situation.
Let’s reconcile to our past and walk the middle path in the time to come
