The Memory Of Elephants
(Boman Desai)
What if one?s memory suddenly goes way long into the past, back in time and back in ages? Boman Desai visualises this in his novel Memoryof Elephants. The main character of the novel is Homi Seervai, a Parsi. The Parsis are said to be either extraordinarily genius or eccentrically mad. Homi, apolio-stricken handicapped, is a genius. He is madly in love with Candice Kirchener. But she ditches him. Homi is unable to forget her and the wonderful days he had spent in her company. Soon he notices that with time the details are beginning to fade. Homi doesn?t want this to happen. He wants to remember the lovely hours in their entirety and in detail. He decides to invent a machine that will help him achieve this. He invents one and calls it Memoscan. With this machine Homi is able to scan his memory and detect all the lovely thoughts of the moments spent with Candice. This is so pleasurable that Homi keeps scanning the moments over and over. Only one thought keeps worrying him. As it happens in machines, will running the Memoscan over and over erode his original memory? But before this could happen the Memoscan begins to malfunction. It triggers off a journey into times even before his birth. Now, Homi meets his dead father and dead grandmother. They teach Homi to be proud of his Parsee culture and heritage.They tell him about his illustrious lineage. The journey with the machine brings out the ancestry of Parsi families who moved from Persia and Iran to India.Their history from seventh century comes alive in Boman Desai?s novel. As the novel progresses Homi finds his personality growing. The wisdom of his ancestors turns him into a strong willed man with a new zest for living.
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