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SANGAM, a CONFLUENCE Aditya Yogesh Desai, Masters of Fine Arts ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: SANGAM, A CONFLUENCE Aditya Yogesh Desai, Masters of Fine Arts, 2012 Thesis Directed by: Professor Howard Norman Department of English Sangam, Sanskrit for “confluence,” is a novel set across three storylines, all connected by a single ghazal poem, the evolution of which spans the lives and times of three men. In medieval India, Sufi poet Amir Khusrow arrives at the ruins of an ancient Hindu Temple, seeking inspiration and revival for his work; centuries later, at the turn of India’s independence from Britain, young lawyer Jayant finds his idealism tested in against the nation’s messy beginnings; in the present day, a young Indian-American disc jockey navigates the night club scene, hoping to become the modern music star. The novel is meant to mimic how music is sampled, re-appropriated, and remixed over time. In the same way songs are matched by a DJ for beats and melody, so too are the themes and emotional arcs of each man’s story line meant to echo one another, and resonate as a whole. SANGAM, A CONFLUENCE by Aditya Yogesh Desai Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Fine Arts 2012 Advisory Committee: Professor Howard Norman, Chair Professor Maud Casey Professor Gerald Gabriel Table of Contents Chapter 1 .................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2 ................................................................................................................................. 23 Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................................. 38 Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................................. 61 Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................................. 85 Chapter 6 ................................................................................................................................. 88 Chapter 7 ................................................................................................................................. 94 Chapter 8 ............................................................................................................................... 100 Chapter 9 ............................................................................................................................... 102 Chapter 11 ............................................................................................................................. 127 Chapter 12 ............................................................................................................................. 132 Chapter 13 ............................................................................................................................. 138 Chapter 14 ............................................................................................................................. 145 Chapter 15 ............................................................................................................................. 151 Chapter 16 ............................................................................................................................. 154 Chapter 17 ............................................................................................................................. 155 Chapter 18 ............................................................................................................................. 172 Chapter 19 ............................................................................................................................. 179 Chapter 20 ............................................................................................................................. 187 Chapter 21 ............................................................................................................................. 190 Chapter 22 ............................................................................................................................. 194 Chapter 24 ............................................................................................................................. 216 Chapter 25 ............................................................................................................................. 228 Chapter 26 ............................................................................................................................. 234 Chapter 27 ............................................................................................................................. 244 Chapter 28 ............................................................................................................................. 259 Chapter 29 ............................................................................................................................. 277 Chapter 30 ............................................................................................................................. 294 Chapter 31 ............................................................................................................................. 311 Chapter 32 ............................................................................................................................. 318 Chapter 33 ............................................................................................................................. 327 ii Chapter 34 ............................................................................................................................. 332 Chapter 35 ............................................................................................................................. 350 Chapter 36 ............................................................................................................................. 359 Chapter 37 ............................................................................................................................. 367 Chapter 38 ............................................................................................................................. 369 Chapter 39 ............................................................................................................................. 378 Chapter 40 ............................................................................................................................. 385 Chapter 41 ............................................................................................................................. 393 iii Chapter 1 The caravan moved slower and slower in the heat, slugging across the land. The palanquin bearers’ feet crushed the dry, yellowed grass, paving a cragged pathway across the field. At midday, the sun was high above, and beat down on their heads. Without a cloud in the sky, it was too bright to even look ahead. They held their heads down, silently cursing their duties and trying to forget the weight and pain on their bodies. The caravan had traveled from Delhi, skirting the Thar desert across Rajasthan. It went up and down the rolling hills that were in spring bloom, sprouting daffodils and marigolds down their sides. As the band entered the new Gujarat territory, there were almost no signs of the army ever having passed. Inside the palanquin, Amir Khusrow closed his composition book and tied it severely shut. He was frustrated. What had been a wellspring of subjects and emotions, inscribed onto the page like firebrand, had gone dry. He had observed in futility as his notebook, scrawled all over with miscellaneous stanzas, crude drawings, and small edicts, slowly petered out into more and more blank space. After awhile he’d went back to older pages to make use of any previous aphorisms or intriguing phrases he’d over heard. But upon re-reading, he’d realized he was merely recording the world around him. The edicts of princes and nawaabs from the Sultan’s court, or the bedroom closet gossip of the servants and marketplace commoners, all seemed to mold into a scatological survey. This wall, one he’d careened into and only realized after being thrown backwards to the ground, had stifled him. But what was this wall, and where had it come from? He didn’t know. 1 Where had the emotion gone? Where had been the love, the magic, and mystery? As a young man he had been filled with life. Stanzas had flowed from his mind effortlessly. He could synthesize the pains, the trials, the torture of man’s heart in such few, short, precise words. Oh, the joy of words! It was like climbing the mountain or fighting the thousand armies of old fables. To take an emotion or thought, so vague and gelatinous, so slippery that one would be afraid to lose it without constant concentration, and then mold it into form, breathing life with a rhythm to musical that would render it immortal. But even more than the alchemy of making it permanent, it was the puzzle that Khusrow enjoyed. The shifting and arrangement of pieces, like a perfect set of teeth, the ridges and contours of top and bottom locking into each other as the jaws come shut; biting down and then chewing, savoring, and swallowing the words. The satisfaction of completion. And for many months till now, it had evaded him
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