Novel Bahaw: A Glimpse of the Continuous Struggle for Human Survival

Abstract

Mustansar Hussain Tarar is a great prose writer of Pakistan who has rapidly reached the heights of fame in Urdu literature in the present era due to his creative aspects. He has proven his creative abilities in important genres of literature like column writing, travel writing, drama writing, and Novel writing. The greatest quality of a successful novelist is that his creative art is constantly evolving. Since the novel is the name of the interpretation of human life and human life is not as simple and easy as it seems. And then the realities of human life are not in their essence as they seem. After creating one novel, a novelist has to be reborn to create another novel. Life has to be seen from a new angle and perspective.  The more closely an event or scene is viewed, the more complex and hidden paths open up. The insight and vision of a great creator also works like a 360-degree camera. Mustansar Hussain Tarar's novel writing is so diverse on an intellectual and artistic level that it can be clearly felt that he has traveled centuries to write each of his novels. The novel Bahav is such a different and unique novel that it introduces us to a Mustansar Hussain Tarar who does not feel like a man of today, but rather a man of a civilization centuries ago. Who has probably spent many centuries in the embrace of sleep and has waited for the time when, after going through the evolutionary stages of human civilization and winning the struggle for survival, it has acquired the ability to subjugate the entire universe.  So that today's modern man can be shown a glimpse of the life of his ancestors when they were at the mercy of nature in the difficult and dark journey of survival. Their settlements were destroyed many times and then rebuilt. By doing this, he wants to make people feel the value of humanity. Of course, they are people from thousands of years ago and are fluent in a language that has become extinct over time and has become a thing of the past. But their effort to recover this language, this culture, this civilization and civilization is a great effort to force today's developed man to look back at his past and examine his actions and stop his negative intentions that are causing deadly destruction for the survival of humanity. In this novel, Mustansar Hussain reveals many layers of human civilization and culture that are thousands of years old and makes us realize that human life has been fighting a continuous battle for its survival on this planet. This is a long story of continuous struggle that makes today's man think a lot and take a critical look at his activities.  It invites us to take a look. The presentation of human characters, civilization, and history in this novel. The glimpse of the ancient rivers of India, the importance of water, and the reflection of the customs and relationships of ancient humans are the qualities that place this novel among the most important novels in the history of Urdu literature.