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Articles: Literature | Naveen’s Ampasayya
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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Naveen’s words, “there is no technique apart from the subject; if the subject is new the novelty in the technique will follow suit” apply to no other novel of his as best as they do to Ampasayya. The novelty in this novel is to have the situation prevailing in Osmania University in the 1960s and the experiences of young men studying there reflected through the mind of a student. This student represents the large majority of the student community of the time. He has a keen interest in literature and films, knows how to analyse politics, experiences the pressures occasioned by the realisation of the need to escape poverty by charting future life and succumbs to the temptations of beauty and sex. The writer shows two kinds of hunger in this novel in the most brilliant way. Hunger instigates people to debasement, thievery, slavery and cruelty. Resisting these temptations is the hallmark of individuality and Ravi is capable of it.
His teacher Upendra enlightens him on the difference between ideals and actual life and the difference between thoughts and deeds. He has his mother in his heart and the unattainable Kiranmayi outside demarcating the limits of his psyche. He operates within these limits. But it is not difficult to understand that he progresses from his initial loneliness and withdrawal towards the society of men and the security it offers. This clearly comes out in the last part of the novel.
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