The taste of Hilsa story and summary
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Hilsa is no doubt one of the tastiest fishes I have ever tasted. My earliest memory of the taste of the fish goes back to a day in my childhood when Guru Bipin Singh was invited at our house. So plenty and delicious was Hilsa on that occasion that it remained in my sub conscious for ever.
In 2007, we went through an unforgettable experience of trying to get fresh Hilsa of Bangladesh from Agartala to Imphal across the Indigo check point. Our Pengba and Khabak are no less tasty but definitely not as romanticised as Hilsa.
Oja Kunjamohon's "the taste of an Hilsa" is no doubt a great story. I read it again and again but I always felt there must be something beyond the 'taste of the Hilsa fish'.
The theme of the story cannot be bounded by a river and a fish. When I read the many obituaries of this litterateur, I again began thinking about the meanings of the story. A write up by Londonbala in Poknapham even had the backdrop of the genesis of the story where my father E. Nilakanta Singh, fascinated by the Barak, inspired the author to write something related with the Barak River.
The author admitted in the interview that the story was based on the experience of a poor neighbouring family. I found that not very convincing. Did the poet mean the Barak as a majestic river only? I became more excited when I read the short sketch of his life by Saratchand Thiyam distributed on his shradha ceremony. He had a Marxist streak in his mind. At one time he used to be overawed by our Janneta Irawat. The story was written after he was released from preventive detention. Then, everything seemed to fall in place. This realisation raised the stature of the author even higher.
What I am going to discuss is the universality of the theme of the story and its relevance today. The wonderful taste of Hilsa stands for something everyone holds dear; freedom. The father and son duo, Chaoba and Mani, represent the underprivileged and dispossessed class. They toil to get something they need only to be taken away by somebody.
Again by under privileged and dispossessed we mean any one who has been deprived of his rightful share. Who does not love freedom? What do we exactly mean by freedom? If we interpret freedom in the narrow sense as the ability to do what one likes, just as the father and son duo had caught the fish from the river, others could have snatched it without going through the niceties of selling and buying.
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