Harita came to the Kurdish community while doing research at the University of Barcelona on the subject of ‘construction and representation of cultural identities’. Harita meets Lilan, a Kurdish man, in an attempt to learn more regarding patriotism among the Kurds. Green writes regarding the moment when the conversation with Lilan opened the terrible door to the history of a society that has suffered for centuries.
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The novel takes place in a great riot ground in which we live. Beyond this uniqueness of the subject matter, Haritha Savitri (The novel also succeeds in imparting the cohesive assimilation of good writing.
N.S. Madhavan
Humans sometimes have life-changing moments. In the introduction to her first novel, ‘Zin’, Haritha Savitri talks regarding the experience of changing one’s consciousness, vision and attitude, turning one’s self-awareness, vision and attitude into one’s life, one of the most commonly passed.
Harita came to the Kurdish community while doing research at the University of Barcelona on the subject of ‘construction and representation of cultural identities’. Harita meets Lilan, a Kurdish man, in an attempt to learn more regarding patriotism among the Kurds. Green writes regarding the moment when the conversation with Lilan opened the terrible door to the history of a society that has suffered for centuries.
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You can read the notes written by Haritha Savitri on Asianet News Online here
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The Kurds are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group spread across four countries: Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Armenia. A people destined to live as a minority in all four countries. They have a long history of being used as a victim of racism and as a weapon of political exploitation by the majority in their respective countries, as has always been the case in all countries.
There is a dream of surviving for a long time the Kurds who were deprived of their civil rights as a result of the constant repressive tactics of the governments and destined to live as second class citizens. A country called Independent Kurdistan, where the Kurds can stand on their own two feet, merging all their territories into one! The same dream that survived Hitler’s Jewish hunt during World War II and survived the Jews scattered around the world. But the dream is dear to them, even as they know that there is no way the world can join hands for Kurdistan, ignoring their vested interests, as the Western powers have come together to make a state called Israel a reality.
However, freedom fighters are born out of them to achieve the equality and civil rights that all citizens of living countries deserve, and to resist state exploitation and oppression. As is the case in the rest of the world, governments are branding them as extremists and terrorists through false propaganda. Attempts are being made to silence them by unleashing inhumane attacks on them. At the same time, major powers such as the United States are using the Kurds as partners in the war once morest ISIS in Syria, abandoning them, and the Turkish government is using the same ISIS to try to suppress the ISIS.
Haritha had earlier introduced the living martyr Lisa Calan, who lost both her legs in such an IS suicide bombing, to the Malayalees through an article in Mathrubhumi Weekly. Lisa has become a Kurdish legend and is internationally renowned as a filmmaker. Lisa is still making movies without getting discouraged by the tragedy she faced. Lisa was the chief guest at the 26th Kerala International Film Festival. Lisa’s Language of the Mountains won the state’s The Spirit of Cinema Award.
With Green Lisa Challan
That being said, the journey of a Malayalee woman named Haritha into the tragic history of the Kurds is fruitful. It is a sequel to Haritha’s novel ‘Sin’ recently published by Mathrubhumi Books. The concept of the green novel came at the end of a journey through the tragic path of Kurdish tragedy and survival. At that time, Haritha traveled from the capital city of Istanbul, a symbol of all Turkey’s influence, to the Kurdish bloody backyards, endangering even her own security. Beyond the pride of the ancient Ottoman culture, which was displayed as a showcase to the world, the author ‘takes the reader into the horror of what he sees as he confronts the ghost of the Kurdish culture in Turkey, which stands in an area that seems to have been carved out of the city.’
‘The rest of the building was charred like firewood. Desolate streets. Scorched earth, as if something had been added and burned. Walls with bullets. ”
It will take a few years to complete this picture. Then in the background, the menacing sound of galloping army jeeps and bootlegging legs fills the air. Shots coming from near and far day and night. The sky darkened by the occasional bomb blast in my ear. Moans. Some of the survivors inside the dilapidated houses are mentally deranged. Curses thrown at those who were bombed and destroyed without leaving a single hospital to treat sick children. As the narrator moves on from that hellish symphony, he comes across a number of human beings who have been snatched away from the rest of their lives by the graveyard.
‘Zin’ is a novel regarding people who are acquainted with bullet-riddled houses, small shops and tea stalls, and the pains behind their agitated and anxious body language and their unquenchable thirst for freedom.
A loved one of every man I met there might be sentenced to twenty or forty years in prison (for trivial offenses such as participating in a protest rally). Or one of the relatives may be missing. Otherwise, the government may have killed him or not. According to the author, the novel ‘Sin’, which means ‘Jeanie’, was written in the Kurdish language, Kurumanchi, as a love story adapted for the freedom to rename the characters and present their burning experiences as a novel.
One of the measures to eradicate Kurdish culture was the banning of their language, Kurumanchi. It was also a crime to speak and even study. From the edges of the language they carry like breath, Green tells the fiery life story of those men. That is, the novel’s transformation as if it had been transformed into a documentary regarding the Kurds, a fiction that can be seen with curiosity and painful suspense. If we who live in present-day India are deeply saddened by the reading of the hot and sour and painful characters of the characters who are still alive and dead in Kurdistan, it is hard not to think of the Kurds. Our country, where similar conditions prevail, and the depths and depths of a society that is constantly being alienated here, also cast a shadow over our minds.
That is why even following closing the book, the alarm bells that ring in our ears continue to follow. In the book, Green remembers Professor Enrique Monforte, a professor at the University of Barcelona, who was made aware of his responsibilities as a human being and his responsibility to the world. This novel, written regarding a great racial catastrophe that the Western world pretends not to see, is perhaps the best Gurudakshina he can give to a disciple named Haritha.
It is hoped that ‘Sin’ will soon be translated into English and fall into his hands. Like many other readers, I like it. The novel has since been translated into Kurumanchi, the living language of the Kurds, and is expected to reach its characters and their relatives. ‘Sin’, which may become a rarity in Indian languages itself, is not an ordinary novel, it hides a flame that swallows our laziness.
Last Updated Jun 11, 2022, 7:20 PM IST
