JAYANTI DALAL’S THE DARKNESS DESCENDS (JAGMOHANE SHU JOVU?): A DISTRESS OF BLINDNESS AND COMPROMISING THE SELF

Jayanti Dalal was an eminent playwright, critic and prose writer of Gujarati literature. His sense of employing experiments with form and techniques made him somewhat distinct writer. All his literary works are thought-provoking manifesting unique characteristics through analysis of human perspective. The story The Darkness Descends (Jagmohane Shu Jovu?) focuses on the feelings of Jagmohan, the hero of the story who loses his eyesight. The writer seems to reveal the truth that one should live with rational honesty. He aims at understating the human mind. The writer constructs a story through psychological truth, which doesn't seem mere a fancy tale. The writer has conducted an experiment of a ‘story within story' by using comparable Japanese story. The writer applies here his sense of experimentation with a view to comparing and analyzing the self with the others. K