Book Review
Reviewed by Maria Beltran, USA for Readers' Favorite
"The King from The Sky" or "Enter The King" by Ibomcha Kolom unfolds with Laysana receiving the prestigious Humanist Award from the President of UNO at the UN. It is a day celebration and the pretty girl is singled out for her social work, which is assisting those who are adversely affected by acid rain. It has been three years since she embraced this advocacy urged in part by a mysterious man named Manlay. This is an era of globalization when the earth is covered with acid rain. Governments have tried to save the earth with the use of a Super Computer installed in a space ship handled by Alice, an artificial female. The Super Computer has failed and Earth seems to be headed for doom. What role will Manlay play in averting this impending disaster?
Ibomcha Kolom’s novel, "The King From The Sky" is an eye opener for all of us who have contributed in the dire strait of our environment today. Imagine a world that is on the brink of disaster and the Super Computer that has been invented to avert the situation has failed. The events in this futuristic novel may as well happen to earth in the near future. The predicament that Laysana and Malay found themselves in is absolutely not far-fetched considering the rate of destruction that is happening to our environment today. This makes the story relevant to our present situation and is thus easy to relate to. Born under completely different circumstances, the main protagonists in Enter the King crosses paths in the most unusual way. And when they did- things are never the same again. This novel is a must read especially for the young generation who will soon inherit the world.
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Summary
The pretty
young girl named by Laysana receives the Humanist award from the President of U.N.O.
in the UN—Day celebration. She was selected
for her works serving the people
affected by Acid Rain during the last three years. To see the award which is
the figure of a young man with a spade she begins to remember a past life at
continues:
The statue of
young man has been standing on the mound in a big garden.
Thirty years
ago a Japanese scientist discovered a natural wave. He said that this is a rare
spiritual wave originated from decease or living human being. He devised it
well to be used in discovering a Super Computer which was to be installed in a
huge spaceship produced by U.N.O. This Spaceship was the most powerful of U.N.O.
It protected the earth from any danger.
An artificial
known female entitled Alice handled it.
But it failed due to the failure of S.C. (Super Computer). Manlay, the
orphan young man worked alone in a dreadful meadow. There, he had cut off the head
of a big serpent. But the headless body had disappeared in to the water of the
moat. Five years later the meadow had been turned into a big garden.
While he was
cleaning the water surface
of the moat
he had been killed by
the headless snake
by coiling his legs with
its tail and dragging
down under the water. His
dying emitted a
rare wave which would be
attracted by the receiver that gave
rebirth of the S.C. His will never died that
his ghost proceeded his
further works and killed the
anti social, the
magician.
The Acid Rain was falling at different parts of
the Earth. It was a great misery. Laysana
and her party served the affected people.
The Spaceship
returned and saved the Earth by stopping the acid rain.
At the eve of
the perfect world he regained his consciousness that he disappeared. None could
see him again.
His statue had
been set standing on the tip of the mound in the garden.
“Why did you
come to the world?” asked Laysana as she was looking at the statue, as
remembering and concentrating her mind to spread her love to everybody.
In the mean
time She regains her remembrance: the UN—Day celebration. She begins hearing
the clapping sounds.
Contents
Episodes
1.
UN—Day
2.
Enter the
king
3.
The Super Computer and the Key Wave
4.
The two babies
5.
A big
meadow
6.
A kind
of love
7.
The award
8.
Access to
the meadow
9.
Path
making
10.
Work: To grow
tree
11.
Work: Breaking
clods
12.
Bench making
13.
The last
six days
14.
The girl’s return
15.
Samtan
16.
Acid rain
17.
The king
from the sky
Non
English Words
Herosima : ………..: Hero this one (hero
+ sima : this one)
English
Manipuri
(Indian language)
Manlay laysana : .. : A Manipuri naming
word of an orchid flower
Manlay: ...............: A name of a
male person
Laysana :………….. : A
name of female person
Kailash: ……………. : A name Himalayan mountain
Amrita : …………….: Ambrosia
Indradeva : ………..: The king of god’s kingdom
(Hinduism)
Nullah :………………: Drain
Yasoda:……………… : Mother of Lord Krishna(Hinduism)
Jungle:
………………. : Forest
Samtan:…………….. : A name of forestry village
Lamdan:……………..: A name of a
peak
Meetiesm:…………. : A
religion of Manipur
Pombi:………………. : Swallow, Bird, Soul
Khamba Thoibi :…. : A
famous romantic story
of Manipur
(Like
Romeo & Juliet)
Sagar:……………….. : Sea
Tunggon:
………… : A container for fish, used in fishing
Episode (I)
UN Day
Glitter,
glitter Nations
Chant the
name of Mother;
Bluish,
bluish Planet,
Greenish,
greenish The
Earth.
Revolves round years;
Pigging
back her child on back
Climbs
up the hot ridges,
Get
down into the cold lake.
Turning yourself days and nights;
Working never ending tirelessly
To rare up feeding the sucklings;
Your owe can't be repay in life.
Oh
Mother worry no more;
Spray fully the blood rain
Of
your children in the fields;
Seeding new seeds to budding;
The new human beauties.
This
song opens the celebration at the place above which the huge spaceship is at
stand as roof spreading vastly upwards the sky and the participants of
different people from different countries have already covered fully. The
program continue one after another.
At
the special program the sounds of clapping arise as Laysana takes the award
from the President of U.N.O. At once she is attracted to the award: the bright
figure of a young man holding a spade in his right hand. As she is looking at
the thing she remembers a statue which has been standing in the middle of a
large garden. She forgets the other world, the day and the place adorned with
all UN members, Alice: the guidance of the spaceship, Prime Ministers,
Presidents, Secretaries and numerous known persons of the world.
The
award received by her is the highest, called ‘Humanist Award’ for serving the
humans who were affected by a series of imbalance natural phenomenon: high
global temperature, ultraviolet rays of the sun, cyclones, earthquakes and Acid
Rain during the period of last four years. Almost she dedicated her life at the
works for the different people who were haunted by Acid Rain. UNO has selected
her for the award as regarding her works.
Laysana,
a simple and unfashionable young lady but adorns the snowy-clothes of perfect
womanish styled at a traditional dress of a community remembers a past life at
continue:
*She
sees a vision in mind of a large happiness crowd in a garden; the numerous
different people were noising as they gave a look at the flight of the Spaceship
which was flying off the city after the great farewell. She also joined them
happily. Then she turned away from the sky saying:
“Let’s
go .....”
Her
eyes searched someone at her right side.
“Hay,
where you?” asked her. But she could not see him; she turned around again and
again. She asked some people
“Where is he, the young man who is standing
beside me?”
Everybody
began to search him as saying
“Where
is he, just standing here now and a while ago?”
.
She
called him loudly again and again. Nobody found him.
That
time in the garden, on the road of the city everybody moved to and fro, from
place to place and to every nook and corner. At last they gathered hopelessly.
In
the meantime an old monk Meeteism (a religion of Manipur) came there and stood
before her and said:
“My
sweet child, don’t call him again. He will not come again that he was not a
human being, he was the ghost that he died three years ago at the summit
moments of rest after the complete performances of his hard work symbolized the
highest peak of human beauty and while the simultaneously raising of the
perfect thought about the modern world, the creation to judge romance, a
deep-shocked with the operating thought about his unknown mother and the topic
about endless different human-societies. All these combination of his human
natures exposed a rare wave in the universe. But he could not get up again from
his rest. But his will got up as the ghost and went to Samtan for his further
work. Today a while ago the ghost regained the consciousness that he
disappeared. And his death body has been lying under the water of the great
moat in the garden”.
To
hear those words everybody dumbfounded. She ran madly towards the garden. The
crowd too followed her. The body was found under the water after a long search.
To see the big swollen and spongy figure she could not know him. But she could
identify the belt and the trouser. She neither spoke nor cried for the moment
and for many days.
For
the memory of him a beautiful statue holding his original spade was set up to
stand on the little mound in the garden.
One
day, on a full moon night she was standing on the top of the mansion looking at
a little distance that the statue was standing bravely and brightly. Winds from
the garden blew her hairs sporadically and echoing the words “I will see your
lovely face when the wind, from the perfect society, blows your hairs
sporadically” she was thrilled suddenly and began to cry saying:
“I will live for your world, for your aim.”
Her
love would not be confined but spray to every human.
Though
her romance had broken a new full moon of a universal love shined vastly above
the statue. But the message: the tears of the moon will be visible in the sky:
On
the solitary face of
The
Kailash Mountain’s cliff
The
full moon appears
Hiding
half way telling
The
message of love.
To be continue
UN DAY : Episode 1/The King From The Sky/Novel
Reviewed by Multi-Moon lights
on
November 06, 2019
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