HaJaBaRaLa
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HaJaBaRaLa is a novellete by Sukumar Ray.
This story belongs to the non-sense genre, with most of Sukumar Ray's fiction. There is a similarity to Alice In Wonderland in plot organisation and the ending, though these characteristics can be said to be common to most nonsense stories.
Characters
Most of the characters have found idiomatic usage in Bengali language, which is true for many of Ray's works.
Some of the main characters are:
Kakkeshwar kuchkuche-a raven.
Gechodada-a character that is only alluded to by Kakkeshwar but never appears in the story.
Hijibijbij-a person who imagines very improbable situations and laughs at them.
Byakaran singh BA Khadyabisharad-a goat who is prone to delivering academic lectures on non-academic subjects such as what-all goats don't eat.
Nara-a bald singer who sings songs with non-sensical lyrics even when nobody has asked him to sing.
Udho and Budho-Two dwarf-type creatures who are fighting one moment and hugging the next. The phrase "Udhor pindi Budhor ghare" has become a very common idiom.
There are many other characters.
Plot Teaser
The story starts with a boy suddenly waking up from sleep and finding that the handkerchief he placed just beside him before sleeping has turned into a cat! He starts talking to the cat and starts the ensuing fantasy adventure and meets with many wildly funny characters.Plot summary
The boy finds Kakeshwar doing calculations in a slate and doing some mathemetics that appears very unusual to the boy.
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