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	'''Janantike''' ({{IPA-gu\|jənantike\|pron\|Gu-Janantike pronunciation.ogg}}; {{trans\|To The Audience—An [[Aside]]}}) is a 1965 collection of personal essays by Indian writer [[Suresh Joshi]]. V.Y. Kantak translated it into English with the title ''Intimate Asides'' (1995).		'''Janantike''' ({{IPA-gu\|jənantike\|pron\|Gu-Janantike pronunciation.ogg}}; {{trans\|To The Audience—An [[Aside]]}}) is a 1965 collection of personal essays by Indian writer [[Suresh Joshi]]. V.Y. Kantak translated it into English with the title ''Intimate Asides'' (1995).

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{{Short description|1965 collection of essays by Suresh Joshi}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Janantike
| image = Janantike cover.jpg
| caption = Cover page
| author = [[Suresh Joshi]]
| title_orig = {{lang|gu|જનાન્તિકે}}
| orig_lang_code = gu
| translator = V. Y. Kantak
| country = India
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| subject =
| genre = Personal essays
| publisher = {{plainlist|
* Swati Prakashan, [[Bombay]] (Gujarati)
* [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[New Delhi]] (English)
}}
| pub_date = 1965
| english_pub_date = 1995
| awards = [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]]
| oclc = 34851277
| dewey =
}}
'''Janantike''' ({{IPA-gu|jənantike|pron|Gu-Janantike pronunciation.ogg}}; {{trans|To The Audience—An [[Aside]]}}) is a 1965 collection of personal essays by Indian writer [[Suresh Joshi]]. V.Y. Kantak translated it into English with the title ''Intimate Asides'' (1995).

==Publication==
The book was first published in 1965 by Swati Prakashan, [[Bombay]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Books India, Issue 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61QrAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=National Book Trust|location=New Delhi|page=55}}</ref> It contains 51 essays that Joshi wrote during the period from 1955 to 1964. The essays are of different lengths, arranged in a loose sequence. The essays are untitled but numbered serially.<ref name="KMGeorge1997">{{cite book|last=Mehta|first=Digish|author-link=Digish Mehta|editor-last=George|editor-first=K. M.|editor-link=K. M. George (writer)|chapter=Janantike|title=Masterpieces of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXFOAAAAYAAJ|volume=1|year=1997|publisher=[[National Book Trust]]|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-237-1978-7|page=303–305}}</ref><ref name="Thaker1996">{{Cite encyclopedia|last=Darji|first=Pravin|author-link=Pravin Darji|title=Janāntike|script-title=gu:જનાન્તિકે|encyclopedia=[[Gujarati Vishwakosh]]|volume=VII|editor-last=Thakar|editor-first=Dhirubhai|editor-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|publisher=Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust|year=1996|edition=1st|oclc=164765976|location=Ahmedabad|page=423|language=gu}}</ref>

==Contents==
''Janantike'' ([[aside]]) is a term used in [[Indian classical drama|classical Sanskrit dramaturgy]] to indicate a situation where one character whispers something into the ear of another character, apparently excluding the audience from sharing it. Joshi states in the preface to the collection that the essays are written in a ''Janantik'' form, suggesting they are personal essays.<ref name="KMGeorge1997"/><ref name="Thaker1996"/>

Some essays in the collection are autobiographical in nature.<ref name="Panchal2004">{{cite book|title=Suresh Joshi|last=Panchal|first=Shirish|year=2004|authorlink=Shirish Panchal|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|location=New Delhi|series=Makers of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AMOIkTYkOQC&pg=PA10|isbn=978-81-260-0373-0|page=10–12}}</ref> The chief theme of the essays is [[reminiscence]] (''smaraṇ'' in Gujarati). In the opening essays, as well as in some later ones, Joshi recaptures the impressions of his earlier days, especially his childhood. He writes about his childhood impressions of his home region which lies towards the [[South Gujarat]], the castle which is now in ruins, the dense forest of Saatkashi, the river Zankhari and the wondrous fairy world of childhood. Some specific memories are interwoven with these past impressions: the memory of certain deaths in the family, the images of a grandfather and an aunt are overlaid with the sadness of existence.<ref name="KMGeorge1997"/>

==Reception==
''Janantike'' was awarded the [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]] (also known as the Narmad Gold Medal) literary award in 1965.<ref>{{cite book |last=Trivedi |first=Ramesh M. |year=2015 |script-title=gu:અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઇતિહાસ|title=Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihas|trans-title=History of Modern Gujarati Literature |location=Ahmedabad |publisher=Adarsh Prakashan |page=415 |isbn=978-93-82593-88-1}}</ref> One of Joshi's best known works, ''Janantike'' is considered to be one of the important contributions to Gujarati essays.<ref name="Thaker1996"/> V.Y. Kantak translated it into English by V. Y. Kantak with the title ''Intimate Asides'' (1995), published by [[Sahitya Akademi]].<ref name="Panchal2004"/><ref name="JoshiKantak1995">{{cite book|last1=Joshi|first1=Suresh|translator-last=Kantak|translator-first=Vaman Yeshwant|title=Intimate Asides|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1sFjAAAAMAAJ&q=Janantike+English+translation|year=1995|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7201-886-3}}</ref>

Gujarati writer Meghnad Bhatt cites ''Janantike'' as 'undoubtedly' the best collection of essays in [[Gujarati literature]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bhatt|first=Meghnad|title=The Indomitable Suresh Joshi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GMNjAAAAMAAJ&q=janantike+suresh+joshi&dq=janantike+suresh+joshi|journal=The Indian P.E.N.|volume=54|year=1993|publisher=P.E.N. All-India Centre|page=7|oclc=1716992}}</ref> Because of the 'rare modern sensibility' of the essays, critic [[Digish Mehta]] consider it a 'significant contribution' to Gujarati prose style.<ref name="KMGeorge1997"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://ekatra.pressbooks.pub/janantike/ ''Janantike''] on Ekatra Foundation
* {{Google books|id=27URAQAAIAAJ}}

[[Category:Works by Suresh Joshi]]
[[Category:1965 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language books]]
[[Category:Indian essay collections]]

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