Dhumketu (Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi). The Letter-Summary Essay

-Dhumaketu (Gaurishankar Goverdhanram Joshi) (SUMMARY) Dhumaketu can be glorified as a prolific writer who has source a very vivid and wonderful description of the village and its large number, along with the nature and loneliness of human beings. The story talks about coachman Ali who could not require the pain of separation when his girl left after her marriage. His loneliness gained momentum with passage of time in which he desperately waited for a letter from his daughter Miriam. The story begins with a very vivid description of how silent the village was wrapped in deathly silence. The description of it being early while away and people fast asleep in a winter morning is very well portrayed through various phrases such as early dawn stars, distant steps, occasional bark of dogs, etc. The old man goes to the post-office everyday occupying a particular seat with a fixed purpose awaiting a letter from his daughter. People found him to be a lunatic and laughed at him. In the f ollowing lines of the story we find Ali missing from the post-office for several days as he falls loathsome terribly. At last, he reaches the place one day and asks for the much await letter. The postmaster gets infuriated and chases him away. Although this angers Ali, he doesnt lose his temper. He gives five golden guineas to the postmaster to forward his letter to his grave as he considers that very day to be his last day of survival. He was never seen again.The tour point in the story comes when trouble knocks on the postmasters door in the form of news about his own daughter who lay sick in another town. He was anxious about receiving a letter from her, discussing her health. He searched in the pile of letters and to his shock, found Alis much awaited letter from his daughter. His anger disappeared in a whiff and he sent for the postman to send it to Ali right away. The story here turns quite heart-rendering when the postmaster feels empathy towards Ali. He is grieved because of his condition and is filled with sympathy for the old man. He then personally went to the post office to give Ali the letter. To his amazement, Ali received the letter with gratefulness and tears in his eyes. The postmaster shrunk mainstay when he noticed a light of kindness when Ali received the letter. The postmaster narrated this entire story to the postman.When asked on whom he saw the postmaster said he saw Ali. This is when he came to know that Ali had died three months before. Here, thebewildered postmaster found at the doorway that Ali had disappeared. Imagination had deceived him. That evening he went to Ali s grave and laid the letter there. Empathy makes us rede each other and build strong relationships. One can feel the anxiety of other when one finds himself in that particular situation. In the end of the story, excruciate with remorse and grief, the postmaster waits for news from her ill daughter, passing a restless night beside the charcoal sigri.