How many people are missing in the world. For those who are surrounded by news of missing persons, their families are waiting. Humayun Ahmed's novel ‘Opekkha’ is about a family whose life is spent waiting for them forever.
Suraiya is the first character to catch the eye of the novel. Lively cheerful character. Hasanuzzaman, her husband, and her six-year-old son, Emon, are all part of the story, and the story is about another new member. Today she will tell Hasan about the news of the new member for whom Suraiya was waiting for her husband.
But Hasanuzzaman never came back from the office that day. He was searched from the hospital to the police station but he did not return. Suraiya can't accept being lost like this, she is anxiously waiting for the way. Hasanuzzaman is present throughout his thoughts. Suraiya wraps herself up, becomes overly indifferent to everything else in the world, becoming irritable day by day.
With her two children Emon and Supravha, she took refuge in the family of her brother Jamilur Rahman. That's where she waits, and Emon and Supravara grow up. While waiting for Suraiya Hasanuzzaman throughout the main context of the novel, the surrounding events continue at a parallel pace, highlighting the story of Jamilur Rahman's family. There is a detailed discussion about how many people's lives can be chaotic only because of the busyness of the master.
In the midst of this wait, the unspoken love story of Emon Mitu continues. The flying love letter sent by Mitu and the dialogues about future plans for marriage have brought life back to this novel of tragic life. The character in the novel may not have been a problem even if it was ignored, but that character has also been highlighted in one stage of the novel in another glory.
‘Aklima’ is Hasanuzzaman’s mother and Suraiya’s mother-in-law. At one time Suraiya did not like her very much, Suraiya was annoyed with her dress and mannerisms.Suraiya also spreads her legs in the same way that Aklima used to spread her legs and think, ‘Is human life like a wheel?
The cycle has no beginning, no end.Human life and so on. This life revolves around the mysterious cycle? No beginning, no end. The cycle is spinning. ’He kept thinking about his mother-in-law’s philosophy of life, his mother-in-law and what exactly did he think about the cycle of life by wiping tears from his eyes like a sari?
Emon and Mitu get married at this stage of the novel. Mitu started from where she ended. She is waiting for Emon's father to return on this mysterious night, preparing stories to tell him.
Will Hasanuzzaman come back at all?
Some people wait to eat while revolving around this cycle. Or everyone.
Waiting for what?