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| Corridor | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Penguin Group(India) |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| Main character(s) | Jehangir Rangoonwalla Brighu Digital Dutta Shintu |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Sarnath Banerjee |
| Artist | Sarnath Banerjee |
Corridor is an Indiangraphic novel, written and illustrated bySarnath Banerjee, set in contemporaryDelhi. A shop owner by the name of Jehangir Rangoonwalla interacts with other residents of Delhi visiting his shop.[1]
In the heart ofLutyens' Delhi sits Jehangir Rangoonwalla, enlightened dispenser oftea, wisdom and second-hand books. Among his customers are Brighu, apostmodernIbn Batuta looking for obscure collectibles and a love life; Digital Dutta who lives mostly in his head, torn betweenKarl Marx and anH-1B visa; and the newly married Shintu, looking for the ultimateaphrodisiac in the seedy by-lanes ofold Delhi. Played out in the corridors ofConnaught Place andCalcutta, the story captures the alienation and fragmented reality of urban life through an imaginative alchemy of text and image.[1]
Opening with narration from Brighu, Sarnath Banerjee takes the reader through a snapshot of the lives of multiple people living in Delhi all searching for a perfect solution for an issue they are trying to solve. Jehangir Rangoonwalla has already had his moment of enlightenment and has taken it upon himself to share with other characters that visit him throughout the book.[1] As Brighu covers the stories of the other characters and returns to himself, he describes how his girlfriend Kali finally decided to leave him. He comes to the conclusion that meetings between people must be cosmic accidents that don’t happen often but special things must have happened when they do.[1][2]
Sarnath Banerjee highlights the vast differences between people’s lives in Delhi even as they all pursue solutions/conclusions for their problems.[1] Even a character like Brighu who is observant and aware of his surroundings struggles in his relationship with Kali and ultimately loses her. But he finds himself compiling the images of the other characters in the story he had drawn, seeming to find his calling as an artist even though he hadn’t initially pursued that course.[6] Throughout the disorder of Delhi and city life as a whole that is emphasized inCorridor, Banerjee demonstrates that peace could still be found by each of the characters even if they hadn’t explicitly searched it out as Shintu and DVD Murthy had.[3] Digital Dutta finds it difficult to cope with the contrast between his dreams and his reality. Getting into a Bollywood-style brawl as it is retold later when protecting his girlfriend leaving the reader to question how extraordinary the fight really was.[4]
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