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Articles: Literature | Naveen’s Ampasayya
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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For Ravi and others who suffer like him the university campus, indeed life itself, becomes a bed of arrows. Ironically the bed of arrows in question alludes to the patriarch Bhishma who spent the last few days of his life lying on this uncomfortable bed after experiencing a long and eventful life. But in Ampasayya it is very young people like Ravi and Venu who experience the agony of the bed of arrows. The unrest and agony result for these young men from the prospect of an uncertain future and the feeling that they are using their parents as mere economic and emotional props. Especially Ravi, who shows a marked tendency to escape into the dream world when he finds it difficult to reconcile the inner world with the one outside, receives many rude jolts as reality impinges on him relentlessly.
There is also clear evidence of this young man experiencing indeterminacy because of the inability to subscribe to an ideology and identify clear aims and goals. Young men like Venu who had consciously developed an ideological basis for life were rare and hard to come by during the 1960s. Against this background Prakash, who looks upon women as mere objects, and Sagar with his pronounced feudal sympathies aligning with Venu comes as a big surprise and shows the lack of moral strength and ideological confusion of the young men of the age.
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