Cobalt Blue - A Journey through Disillusionment to Self-Discovery

Abstract

When unquestionable belief shatters, it brings disbelief, pain, agony and distressing memories. Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue translated in English by Jerry Pinto, sketches the main protagonists Tanay and Anuja. The novel picturizes the ecstatic as well as lugubrious plight of both brother (Tanay) and sister (Anuja) throughout their journey. It portrays the unexpected transition in their life with the entrance of PG in their family. The one who drastically changed their lives through perilous ground of tangled hidden relationships. My research paper brings the outcomes, how the siblings tugged their life after the PG haunted their hearts and how they brought their life back from the clutches of mournful past. It was their psychological strength that brought them back to life. The cultural and traditional aspects of the Marathi Brahmin family are portrayed in the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Joshi (Baba and Aai). The interdependencies of their lives as well as secure private lives of the characters is another characteristic of the novel. Jerry Pinto has wonderfully translated the inbuilt feelings and emotions of the characters. His expertise in portraying psychology of characters made him won the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for his debut novel, EM and the Big HOOM. He also edited, A Book of Light- When a Loved One Has a Different Mind. In both the works, his grasp of voice of conscience and deep rooted pain gets live before the readers. In Cobalt Blue, the monologues of Tanay and Anuja’s diary vindicate the readers, the inherent theme of the novel.