“The poetic quality of the writing, the picturesque details, the stunning organisation of fact and imagination make these essays haunting,” writes Deepa Ganesh in her Frontline review of the iconic playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Necropolis Trilogy (Copper Coin, 2024), translated by Sarabjeet Garcha.
“In his collection of essays The Necropolis Trilogy,” writes Ganesh, “the playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar revisits his past, but it is not a rosy recollection. Elkunchwar’s lens moves in and out of his childhood and youth, reflecting on who and how the author was in those days. But it is neither a tell-all autobiography nor a memoir with methodically selected episodes: with a stream-of-consciousness flow, it adds moments as it moves along. Meanings do not come to you instantly though. Elkunchwar does not arrange his life neatly into blocks to make the experience easy for the reader. Conceived as a monologue with the self, the essays encounter emotions and betrayals through the narrated incidents. It recognises invisible cruelties, changing social structures, and urban chaos but also flows with a seeming lightness of being. Interspersed with the playful and the poetic, the entire work moves through philosophical questions of lightness and weight. In her introduction to the book, theatre director Amal Allana says: ‘Hauntingly beautiful like the fragment of a melody that persistently replays itself in one’s mind, the Necropolis Trilogy is a dense and rich creation, full of undiscovered meanings.’ The Necropolis Trilogy is a contemplative and complex piece of internal theatre by a living legend. Garcha’s English rendition retains beautifully the poetry of the original. This collection is not to be missed.”
Read the entire review here.
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