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Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar  University has celebrated three days of Youth festival which has given the name as Ashvariyam Youth festival. This festival celebrated on 26th October to 28th October. In this festival there were many events like  One Act Play , Skit , Mono-acting , Poetry Recitation , on the spot Painting,  Collage, Cartooning, Rangoli, Installation, Photography , Poster Making , Western group song and solo song , Bhajan , Group Traditional Orchestra  etc. So the task given by Dilip Barad  Sir to watch this events and do critical observation and try to connect with various literary terms.  I attended serval events like One act play , Mono acting , Rangoli ,   Western group and solo song  and Mimicry.  Quiz and Essay writing competitions were organised at our department. On 26 October, the first round of Quiz was stared. On 27 October, the final round of quiz and essay writing were organised. The...

Hello readers,                                           This Blog is a part of Sunday reading task in which Dr. Dilip barad sir  keep on giving the task on Sunday to cultivate the thinking ability in students. Postmodernism : Does not follow on “from modernism”Has a different outlook   Generally less pessimistic Black humour return to satire. The postmodern literary author makes use of comic elements to highlight the serious issues. Before postmodern writers, the other writers used serious and dark tone to talk about serious issues.A postmodernist author tries to break the basics. The postmodern literature is full of laughter, but the aim of the author is not to create laughter but to think on the serious social issues. Here I would like to this  work is to interpret these two Gujarati short stories "Intellectual Indubhai"...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche  is  born on 15th September 1977.  She is a  Nigerian  Novelist and writer of short stories and non fiction. Her novels are :  Purple Hibiscus   ( 2003), Half of a yellow sun  ( 2006),  Americanah   ( 2013)  Shorts stories : The Thing around your neck  Book length essay : We should all be feminist ( 2014 )  She is also an excellent speaker. Listening her is an amazing experience. There are  her three most popular talks. 1)  The Danger of a single story 2) We should all be feminist 3) Talk on importance of truth in post truth Era 1) The Danger of a single story : In this topic she talked about danger of a single story. In this video she talk about her family, her childhood writing, her view about the literature and also she talked about the danger of reading single story about any place, country and people that you can not judge...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist and awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2010. In this interview Llosa shared many ideas related to literary work in which I liked some  ideas given by Llosa. Novelist is the Historian. Idea on Feminism. Ideas and Images. History and Literature are faces of a coin. They are so close and in many cases the litraty version of historical part prevails over historian 's account. The literature is still very close to living.  experience. Novelists is the historian of the unrecorded'.  Given sentence is very true through literature you get idea about social, political and religious background the ages. Literature record dark side of country, person etc. Here Llosa gives an example of Leo Tolstoy's greatest Novel "War and Peace" which is related to the Russian history and many writers used to wrote about historical aspect . the image and ideas. In this points Llosa said that today's world young g...

 This Blog is a part of classroom activities in which students have to interpret two works one is T.S.Eliot's 'Wasteland' and another is the story ' The Joke' by Anton Chekhov. Northop Frye  's theory of  Archetypal criticism  is based on the idea that whole of literature has oneness. We find oneness in whole literature. All literature connected with each other,all those which are already written,those being written and those yet to be written. One must have an understanding of this continuity. T.S. Eliot's view :- T.S.Eliot said  in his  Tradition and individual talent that the best and the most individual part of poet's work is that reflects maximum influence of writers of past. He also said that no poets ,no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His appreciation is the application of his relationship with dead poets. Northrop Frye view :- He developed the theory of Archetypal criticism. He said that the whole liter...

This Blog is a part of my classroom activity in which our professor gave us the task to watch  Shashi Tharor's views on post colonial perspective . to see click here   As we all know that Shashi Tharoor is well known writer and Minister in Indian national Congress. Recently, he published his book "An Era of Darkness" in which he talked about what British did in India. His all speeches about British Raj are worth listening because we can get the idea about his wide knowledge about British Raj in India. Author and politician Shashi Tharoor known for his verbose tweets and quick-witted repartee.  his works and speeches on British colonialism and it's influence on India  are also much considerable.here are some point delivered by him. Shashi Tharoor  presented all his view on British Empire and India and how they do loot in India. Shashi Tharoor  presented all his view on British Empire and India and how they do loot in Ind...

Orientalism : Edward said  This blog is a part of my classroom activity in which students have to write on the interview of Edward Said about Orientalism. Here is the link of the given task by teacher, to see  click here  ‘orientalism’ is the term used to show Western approach and attitude towards Middle , North African and Asian people, society and culture. Western people see them as unintelligent, undeveloped, uncivilized and lower than themselves.   So, in this way they think themselves superior than the Eastern people. This is the simple meaning of the term ‘orientalism’.  As this term suggests, ‘orient’ that is east and on the contrary there is ‘occident’ means west. After the coming of the book “Orientalism” by Said, in 1978, this term started getting place in the field of research and education.  Here is my responses to Identify some concept related Orientalism from the interview of Edwards Said. Orientalism tries ...

This blog is part of my academic activity. To open task link click   Here . Q 1) Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie? In this play ,female characters like Meg and Lulu are subordinated and subjugated , marginalized . They are regarded as puppets. Lulu abused by the male in party. But by whom that is not shown. Because the play represent Stanley as a criminal not Goldberg. So may be Beckett don't want to clarify us that Stanley was innocent. Or may he don't want to show this type of act on stage. 2) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text? It has been said that movie always provides better understanding rather than reading .The same result with the play ‘’Birthday Party’’.In reading you may not feel the same kind of fear and menace,the fear of unknown danger ,but while watching movie remain there and as well as in the mind of audience.The menace evolves from actual violen...