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1Sri Lanka: Remembering Arthur C Clarke The death of Arthur C.श्रीलंकाः आर्थर सी क्लार्क की याद
2Clarke (1917 - 2008) has many people - some who are ardent enthusiasts of science fiction, and others who know of him blogging about their reflections on the man. From a fleeting glimpse, to an incidental conversation, Clarke is remembered fondly by many Sri Lankan bloggers as a visionary and a futurist.
3The British author moved to Sri Lanka in 1956 and lived there ever since. Words of Amaruwan writes on how Clarke's works initiated a love for science fiction.आर्थर सी क्लार्क (1917 - 2008) के निधन के बाद विज्ञान कथा के उत्कट पाठकों और क्लार्क के संपर्क में आये अनेक लोगों ने चिट्ठों में अपने विचार लिखे हैं।
4Sir Arthur is the reason I started loving science fiction. When I was 10 years old I first got my hands on his famous short story: The Sentinel.श्रीलंकाई ब्लॉगर एक स्वप्नदर्शी और भविष्यवादी के रूप में उन्हें प्रेमपूर्वक याद कर रहे हैं।
5Ever since then I was hooked. And I couldnt wait to get my hands on more of his work.क्लार्क अंग्रेज़ थे पर 1956 से श्रीलंका में ही निवास कर रहे थे।
6Which was by no means easy. Sir Arthur was a prolific writer with more than a 100 books to his credit along with numerous essays and short stories.वर्ड्स आफ अमरुवन के लेखक बताते हैं कि कैसे क्लार्क के लेखन से वे विज्ञान कथा के प्यार में पड़ गयेः
7Even wikipedia can only put up a partial bibliography.
8What made him so appealing was that although the science in his science fiction was of the highest levels his writing was very simple, very entertaining and very powerful.
9And his stories were more about the story than the science. Gallicissa remembers meeting the author in 2002.सर आर्थर क्लार्क के कारण ही विज्ञान कथा से मेरा अनुराग हुआ।
10I arranged this meeting and was lucky enough to accompany him on this visit to meet Dr. Clarke who was at his study browsing some super-magnified pictures of the Mars in his Laptop when we met him.
11Showing us those Martian pictures soon and pointing to a pale coloured straight line captured clearly in it, he asked what we think about it!
12We gazed intently at the screen trying to put a proper sentence together and soon noticing our sorry faces, Sir. Clarke helpfully intervened with a smile ‘it looks like someone has driven a pretty large vehicle!'
13LIRNEasia laments the loss of a person they closely collaborated with, shedding light on the fact that there was more to the man than writing fiction.
14In November 2005, LIRNEasia had its last official encounter with him when few representatives from WorldSpace (our partner in the Last-Mile Hazinfo project) including Dr. Rangarajan met him in Colombo.
15His insightful comments on the need for early warning for disasters are still being used in the output from that project.जब मैं दस बरस का था तब पहली बार उनकी प्रसिद्ध लघुकथा “द सेंटिनल “पढ़ी।
16Rants, Raves and Miscellaneous Musings remembers a brief encounter with Clarke - a delightful anecdote on playing table tennis with him.और फिर तो मुझे उनकी कृतियाँ पढ़ने की लत ही पड़ गई।
17The blogger also brings to focus a controversial episode in the author's life when a tabloid accused him of being a pedophile.
18Now I'm not much of a TT player.और ये आसान न था।
19Hell, the main reason I played was so that some day I could tell people, Yeah, I played table tennis with Arthur C Clarke. But this was humiliating.सर आर्थर बहुसर्जनात्मक लेखक थे, असंख्य निबंधों और लघुकथाओं के अलावा सौ से ज्यादा किताबें उन्होंने लिखी थी।
20A 75 year old man, who was supporting himself by holding on to the table with one hand, and not even moving from his position, beat me. he just had a massive reach, and a killer top spin that had me bouncing all over the place, while he calmly stayed there.
21As a friend of mine said when I told him this: Pwnt! Ultrabrown from India writesविकीपीडिया पर भी उनकी पुस्तकों की सूची आंशिक ही है।
22None of this means that Clarke is insensitive to the minutiae of human lives, or to our deepest feelings: his beautiful, sentimental “Dog Star”, about an astronaut having to part with his beloved dog when he goes to live on a lunar observatory, is about the closest any short story has come to moistening my ever-dry eyes.
23(It's also one of a few examples in Clarke's work of a rational mind struggling with an experience that borders on the supernatural, and never coming completely to terms with the scientific explanation.)
24The author of Moving Images, Moving People! who has worked with Clarke for about 21 years, writes wistfully about the last video message that was shot.उनकी खासियत यह थी कि भले ही उनकी कथाओं में आला दर्जे का विज्ञान होता था, उनका लेखन बेहद सरल, मनोरंजक और प्रभावी था।
25We had already donned him in a colourful bush shirt - and crew and I felt that this was the right attire for a message that was intensely personal and somewhat wistful.
26The shirt with large prints was far more characteristic of Arthur C Clarke than any formal suit.उनकी कहानियाँ विज्ञान से ज्यादा कहानी के बारे में ही होती थीं।
27At that moment, I was the shoot's director and not his long-standing spokesperson who would be more agreeable with his views and wishes.
28A few tense moments passed.भारत से अल्ट्राब्राउन लिखते हैं
29Then one of Sir Arthur's valets had a brainwave. Why not don the casual NASA jacket that Sir Arthur often wore when he felt the air conditioning was getting a bit too cold?उनकी लिखी सुंदर और मार्मिक लघुकथा “डॉग स्टार“, जो कि चंद्रमा स्थित औबसर्वेटरी पर रहने के लिये रवाना होते समय अपने प्यारे कुत्ते से बिछुड़ते एक आस्ट्रोनॉट के बारे में थी, ने मेरी आँखों को पहली बार नम किया।
30[Photograph from Wikipedia]