Dr. Narendra Kohli is also known for his Ram Katha in many sections, along with classical compositions such as Diksha, Todo Kara Todo. Recently, he tried to present the holy Gita with a new perspective through his novel Sharanam. In many such historical works, he has put these mythological characters at the center of his compositions.
In a word to word with journalist and writer Dr. Praveen Tiwari, he has explained how today’s compositions are creating illusions among readers and feels it to be dangerous.
In our special interaction, Dr. Narendra Kohli seemed to be very upset with the modern day writers; he strongly condemns their usage of mythological characters, like Sita and Draupadai, with an entirely wrong concept and context. He criticizes the authors who are trying to wrongly shape up the so-moral characters into their own fantasized fiction.
“You have changed the events, you have changed the context, you are changing the relations and still want character to be the same? Why? Use your direction less imagination for character as well, and go ahead patenting them”–Dr. Kohli
On Ameesh Tripathi’s creation “Warrior of Mithila”, the literary Dr. Kohli rebukes the
writer’s fictitious story of the “legendry sita” being conspired to be killed by her uncle. He gets chills to his spine when he reads hanuman as her brother who had met her in her early childhood!
“Why are you playing with the sincerity of these characters? Those are certainly very important to us, and definitely to the youth”, he continues.
Asserting a strong remorse, he opines that it is awful how the modern day youth is drifting far away from reality. On one hand, they are already not much aware of our glorious mythological past, and on the other, they are misguided by the twists and churns in the characters by the present–day writers.
On this he adds, “You just cannot play with the facts and the history, as you shoulder a huge responsibility to guide the youth. So stop misleading”.
“The budding authors do not impress me at all. But, yes, Upanishads do!”
With this he again attacks on the writers and questions them of not being at all aware of the mythological epics, the gems of the Indian civilization. Advising the youthful authors, Dr. Kohli emphasizes on a lot of readings before writing anything.
“A good writer reads everything; no matter what he writes”
So reading is the key according to Dr. Kohli. Secondly, another aspect which makes him worry is the absence of patience in the youth.
“A DU student payed a visit to my place and told me that he is undergoing a Ph.D. IN ME! I asked him anxiously that he has gone through how many of my creations? He said not even one. His answer surprised me!”
He continues, “The current day youth is in a hurry. They want results that too with no input. This is a bizarre!
He was pained in stating that this is the “Age of Digitalization”. Mediums of writing may change; but words shall remain the same. The modern medium is ruining our language, our words and this has to be checked!