However, Cobalt Blue doesn't seem to lose any of its Marathi touches.Īlso Read: 28 Must Read Books in 2021 by Indian Women in TranslationsĬobalt Blue is a book that will engulf you with its melancholy and will continue to do so long after you've stopped reading the book. There can be a lot of instances where the translator-author tends to diverge in novels.
He liked the book and thus took on as the novel's translator. He was given this work by Shanta Gokhale to read. The novel was published in English in 2013, translated by Jerry Pinto, a renowned author, and translator. The novel is split into two halves with each taken over by the siblings as they progress their narratives through an inner monologue and diary entries respectively. It follows their lives as they fall in love with the same Paying Guest that stays at their house. The novel follows the story of siblings Tanay and Anuja, part of the middle-class Joshi Family who reside in the city of Pune. It was published in Marathi in 2006 and considering the time it was released, it was a pioneering novel in the LGBTQ Genre.Īlso Read: Fiction Books on How Bombay Turned Mumbai | Books Set in Mumbai The author had just shifted to Mumbai at the age of 22 and had started writing the manuscript of a forming story because he was bored. The publishing story of Cobalt Blue is that it was actually written by Kundalkar in Marathi back in 2006. A few months ago when I was scrolling through lists of books to read by Indian Authors, I stumbled upon his novel, Cobalt Blue. Throughout that, I hadn't put much thought into the man as a writer, but much more as a National Award Winning Filmmaker.
I first came across Sachin Kundalkar as a Director when I had watched his 2014 film, ‘Happy Journey’. Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar feels like an exchange between two strangers over a couple of drinks or like being that invisible and uncounted member of the Joshi Household.
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