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Articles: Literature | Naveen’s Ampasayya
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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The aspect of Ampasayya which needs to be emphasized is the brilliant way in which it captures and fictionally relives the unrest, hopelessness and dissatisfaction with life among the young men belonging to the middle class. The very title indicates that life for them is not a bed of roses but a punishing experience of injuries caused by sharp instruments, namely difficulties, disappointments and compromises. The young men find themselves, even before life has formally begun in a suspended state, between life and death. Naveen makes an honest effort in this novel to identify and expose the forces acting upon these young men, directly and indirectly, and rendering them incapable of taking on life with confidence, hope and enthusiasm. It is not difficult to identify these forces. By 1968 the great hopes raised in the immediate aftermath of the Independence on the economic, cultural and social fronts were dashed to the ground.
The painful realisation dawned on the people that life after Independence would be not much different from what it had been before. Especially the young people realised that it would be a mere mirage to keep poverty at bay by obtaining a university degree and finding a job therewith. Ravi becomes the focal point of this disappointment with life in the novel. There is a silent cry and protest of Ravi throughout the novel at the inability of the young men to reconcile the values useful to the continuation of the greater good of family and society, the high ideals concerning the progress of mankind and human relations with the realities which are bitter and ugly.
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