Deshraaj, being a corrupt and licentious cop, also works for Star Force like many other police officers. However the majority of the militants are in their den situated somewhere in the nearby forest and the leader of the militant organization is known as Black Star whose real identity is not known to anyone. The militants live in their own colony titled as Kaali Basti (black colony) which is on the other side of the river. The militants get financial aid and arms (and of course, instructions) from their organization active in a neighbouring country - Sri Ganga (akin to Sri Lanka). Vardi Waala Gunda (a goon in uniform) starts with the corrupt activities of a crooked cop - Inspector Deshraaj posted at Prataapgarh (a fictitious police station in a Southern state of India) where a foreign militant organization - Star Force (akin to LTTE) has set terror for years. The sudden assassination of the young political leader provided him the plot and he came up with Vardi Waala Gunda in 1992. Perhaps the arrival of the novel was getting delayed due to the novelist's not being able to get a suitable plot for the overhyped novel. Hindi novelist - Ved Prakash Sharma had made announcement to write a grand novel on the corruption prevalent in the Indian police system years prior to Rajiv Gandhi's assassination and its advertisement (with the title - Vardi Waala Gunda) had been carried out regularly. The killing was executed through a human-bomb and it sent a message across the world to all the militant groups that anybody can be killed if the killer is not hesitant of losing his / her own life for that purpose. Sharma plays with stereotypical notions of male heroism and villainy within a localized context of nationalist discourse, while Pathak features antihero protagonists in the roles of modern Indian ‘everymen.’ The idea of a vernacular gendered aesthetic here thus refers to a pointedly localized–as opposed to global–approach to language, theme, literary style, circulation, and audience.On 21st May, 1991, India's youngest ever prime minister and the then youth icon, Rajiv Gandhi got killed in a bomb blast at Sriperumbudur (Tamil Nadu), planned and executed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) because he had sent forces in Sri Lanka to help the Sri Lankan army in suppressing the violent activities carried out by that organization. The articulation of masculinity that each novelist proffers through their plots and characters is considered within a nuanced context of popular detective novel traditions in other languages in India as well as the various paratexts of the novels themselves (covers, authors' notes etc.) This article ultimately argues that both Sharma and Pathak reveal nuanced iterations of vernacular masculinity. Sharma plays with stereotypical notions of male heroism and villainy within a localized context of nationalist discourse, while Pathak features antihero protagonists in the roles of modern Indian ‘everymen.’ The idea of a vernacular gendered aesthetic here thus refers to a pointedly localized–as opposed to global–approach to language, theme, literary style, circulation, and audience.ĪB - This article considers some of the novels of towering modern Hindi language detective novelists Ved Prakash Sharma and Surender Mohan Pathak.
N2 - This article considers some of the novels of towering modern Hindi language detective novelists Ved Prakash Sharma and Surender Mohan Pathak. T2 - Vernacular masculinities in Hindi detective novels
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