Between Reality and Illusion: Decoding Karodau Kasturi

 

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
                                                                                    -Albert Einstein

As Einstein says, Karodau Kasturi, the literary art of Amar Neupane, makes a sense that everybody has a purpose in his or her life. Only the time when they recognize their purpose differs. Many people are roaming around to show their identity. However, they are confused about their identity. The novel thus brings positivity to readers to search for their purpose. The novel is targeted to those individuals who have been searching for a purpose in life but have forgotten to look within themselves own self.

Portraying a popular and well-known artist Hari Bansha Acharya as a symbol character, this novel revolves around his life from childhood to his mid-life, his struggle, and how he fails in doing everything he puts his hand in, and how useless he finds his own life. Moreover, it explains why he finally choose to take his own life over living a worthless life. Finally, the novel ends on a good note after the character finally finds a purpose in his life after talking to the author, Amar Neupane. He also knows what his problem actually was. He never did or was allowed to do what he wanted or what his passion was because it was accepted neither by people nor by society at that time. After all, only studying hard could make people successful. It was thought of the generation. His father also had dreamt to make Acharya a doctor.

Kasturi in Nepali means Musk deer, which is an animal that fails to notice fragrance that comes from its navel and lives its entire life looking for the source of that fragrance in hills and forests but dies never finding it because it was there within it. The topic “Karodau Kasturi” perfectly suits the novel as this novel says that many people are living their life as Kasturi not knowing their own fragrance and overlooking what they are capable of. This work of the author is an excellent work of making people alert of their qualities and capabilities.

Thus, this cleverly reimagined the real-life story of a novel giving a great message to people searching for purpose in life. If you realize your true interest or skills, sometimes you are too scared to step and change or cannot preserve what your heart says. At last, I recommend all book lovers to read this novel as it shows the value of your life and provides a path for the future. It is suitable for all age groups as it is not a targeted novel. Thus, Read it, and share it!