Why Does the Moon Look So Beautiful?

Why Does the Moon Look So Beautiful? is the translation of a quick story e book by way of Dr. Naguman, at the beginning titled Dar ay Aps, which used to be posted in Balochi. This e book of brief testimonies has been translated through eminent Balochi author and translator, Fazal Baloch.

Before analyzing this book, I idea of searching into the style of quick story as it is perceived in the problem of Literature, with all its nuances and methods as a seminal region of innovative writing. After looking the term from the Google search engine, I got here to comprehend that a quick story is a work of prose fiction that can be examine in one sitting. The quick tales in the above-mentioned e book grew to become out to be authentic to the identify of the style in which they have been written, engaging me to the extent that I managed to study them in one go, in spite of the tales touching upon a number issues, most of them, however, based totally upon the needs and aspirations of human beings, love and relationships, and the function of nature in human life. The imagery of the testimonies emerges as pretty impressive, ensuing in the reader forming an affiliation with the stories’ conditions in a way that the reader considers himself or herself a section of the state of affairs described.

There are whole 13 quick memories in this book, the first one being ‘Sticker’, which conveys the notion that dying is the remaining actuality of life.

The 2nd story titled ‘The Baby’ is the story of a toddler who lamentably will become the bone of rivalry between the very couple which offers start to it, the purpose being that the new-born takes away an awful lot of the time of the girl who starts offevolved prioritizing motherly obligations over these of a wife.

The 1/3 story which is ‘The Urge to Itch’ is a love story that takes vicinity between a younger clinical scholar and a nurse. Their first fascinating assembly takes area at a canteen close to their administrative center the place the scholar notices the nurse itching, which he takes as a gesture of invitation. As a result, he procedures her and their atypical love story commences.

The fourth story ‘The Gold Necklace’ is the story of a wealthy woman title Murwarid who fails to acquire the love of her lifestyles in the face of socio-cultural restrictions.

The fifth Story ‘Destination to Destination’ is the story of Koh-i-Murad. Koh-i-Murad is a sacred area for the Zikri sect (a spiritual sect amongst Baloch) which is located in Turbat. The story revolves round a promise of a mom who desires to take her son to the pilgrimage due to the fact her son has in no way long gone for the pilgrimage before. At positive points, the story additionally highlights the hatred between the Numazi and Zikri.

The sixth story ‘Why Does the Moon Look So Beautiful?’ is the story of a toddler who is born in the first 12 months of the marriage and is named Salaan. Salaan, who then takes on the function of the story’s protagonist, emerges as a boy pretty unique from his peers, the fundamental motive being that he hardly ever smiles or laughs. The story goes on and in the end the dad and mom figure out to get him married after receiving a couple of rejections due to his sombre disposition.

He ultimately receives married to a scholar of his, each of whom supply start to a daughter who thankfully and to the happiness of the readers as well, turns into the motive for Salaan being ultimately capable to love his lifestyles and smile at its high-quality aspects.

The seventh story ‘The Grandfather and Grandson’ is a normal story of love and affection between a grandson and a grandfather. It’s a story which suggests the full and ultimate attachment of the baby with grandfather, who enjoys the memories of his grandfather and asks stupid and odd herbal questions from him. The grandfather chuckles with his spouse on the questions of the grandson and remembers the father of the infant who has now long gone overseas however would show off comparable behaviour as a child.

The subsequent story ‘The Wind’ is a reflection of the nature in a village named Deenabad. The blowing wind in the days of summer season all at once stops, giving upward jostle to a warmness wave instead, as a end result of which humans come up with unique explanations and rumours to make feel of the climatic change. The explanations vary from scientific to spiritual in the minds of the people, thereby reflecting a number of mindsets dwelling and working together.

The ninth story ‘The Traveler in the Midday Sun’ is the story of a younger man who is appointed as a trainer in a faraway village, and receives to meet a shepherd on his way to the village, at whom he laughs at the beginning however is left awestruck the way he witnesses humans respecting him in the village for his special intelligence of enjoying the flute.

The subsequent story titled as ‘Flames of Desire’ is a love story revolving round a dream of a man named Ometan which comes to a surprising cease when his mom wakes him up in the morning.

‘The Magnificent Building’ is the subsequent story primarily based on a stunning and amorous constructing that attracts a Mullah, a Christian and a Hindu alike, with every thinking about it to be his very own worship place, all the whilst now not understanding that it is absolutely a shrine.

The subsequent story ‘The Destination’ is a love story of a Numazi lady and a Zikri boy. The robust partitions of sect, caste, wealth and society stand as limitations between their love, which they be successful in breaking and turning into one. Still, they fail to get a completely happy ending for their story, as they get killed for no longer following the customs of the society.

The e book truely deserves reward for its depiction of the subtleties of human existence as nicely as its incorporation of some socio-political factors of our society which are as a great deal ineluctable as they are problematic. It is for this very cause that a lot of love testimonies in the anthology do no longer attain their preferred ending, for as a end result of belonging to this land, they in the end emerge as stories carrying as lots enmity and bloodshed as love. Why Does the Moon Look So Beautiful? is a must-read to have an notion of how a number of human moods and thoughts go hand in hand. 

The writer is a student of Bolan Center and he writes book reviews, Letter, Blogs and articles. He can reach hammalzahid9@gmail.com

 By: Hammal Zahid