The document provides a summary of the author Vishva Gajjar's personal reading and blogging practices. It discusses how reading is essential, especially for students, and how blogging is a powerful tool for expressing one's views. It then summarizes several entries in the author's blog covering a range of topics: workshops and events attended at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University including a youth festival and competitions in areas like acting, dancing, and painting; analyses of literary works like the poem "Sairandhri" and plays; reviews of movies and books; and discussions of topics in post-colonial studies.

1. Personal Reading and
Blogging
By Vishva Gajjar
Reading is very essential for everyone specially student & Blogging is very
powerful tool to express your view.
2020
Vishvagajjar27@gmail.com
3/3/2020

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Contents
Arundhati Roy ...............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION :.......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION :...........................................................................................................................................5
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie............................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION :.......................................................................................................................................5
Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources ..........................................................................6
1. Gradesaver.com....................................................................................................................................7
2. litcharts.com .........................................................................................................................................7
3. Notablebiographies.com.......................................................................................................................8
4. JSTOR.com.............................................................................................................................................8
“RANG MOHAN” - Youth Festival 2019.........................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTION :.......................................................................................................................................8
SKIT :........................................................................................................................................................10
Bhajan Competition : ..............................................................................................................................11
SPOT PAINTING :.....................................................................................................................................12
"Sairandhri" by Vinod Joshi.........................................................................................................................12
'Sairandhri' is a poem of lost identity .....................................................................................................13
Lost identity : ..........................................................................................................................................14
WomansIdentity :....................................................................................................................................14
Onenees of literature..................................................................................................................................14
Girish Karnad : The Artist, the citizen and the question of truth................................................................16
Hate politics : ..........................................................................................................................................17
Thinking Activity on "August: Patriotism and Religious Fervor".................................................................18
Indian festivals and rituals : ........................................................................................................................19
August is the Month of monsoon : .........................................................................................................20
The Independence Day of India:.............................................................................................................20
ShitalaSaatam : .......................................................................................................................................20
Inoculation VS. Vaccination : ..................................................................................................................21
Saadat Hasan Manto - played by NawazuddinSiddiqui : ............................................................................21
This Bloody Line – A Film By Ram Madhvani : ............................................................................................22
Interpretation of "Breath" Play by Samuel Beckett....................................................................................22
Meaning of the Breath :..........................................................................................................................23

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The script of the play: .............................................................................................................................23
Films of Post Colonial studies: Midnight's Children and The Reluctant Fundamentalist ...........................25
Midnight's Children:................................................................................................................................25
The Reluctant Fundamentalist:...................................................................................................................27
Thiong'o, Tharoor and Films on Colonial History........................................................................................29
Shashi Tharoor:.......................................................................................................................................29
Then and Now: Colonialism, Imperialism and Postcolonialism..................................................................31
Ania Loomba: ..........................................................................................................................................31
Ania Loomba’s colonialism/ post colonialism (p.7) ................................................................................32
Ania Loomba’s views about colonialism/ post colonialism: ..................................................................33
Ania Loomba’s colonialism/post colonialism..........................................................................................33
Colonialism / Post colonialism ................................................................................................................33
Imperialism: ............................................................................................................................................34
Movie review - The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin ...............................................................................34
Movie review - Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin......................................................................................36
Moni MohsinSharmeen ..............................................................................................................................39
Rivers and Tides ..........................................................................................................................................40
Online discussion on Mario Vargas Llosa's Interview.................................................................................41
"Lagaan" - Movie Review............................................................................................................................42
Patriotism................................................................................................................................................43
Rural India...............................................................................................................................................43
Subaltern theory .....................................................................................................................................44
Aishwaryam Youth festival 2018 Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.............................45
ONE ACT PLAY.........................................................................................................................................46
MONO ACTING........................................................................................................................................47
Post-Truth ...................................................................................................................................................48

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Arundhati Roy
INTRODUCTION :
Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, born November 24, 1961, Shillong,
Meghalaya, India, Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-
winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human
rights causes.
'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein
'Unflinching emotional as well as political intelligence... Lucid and probing insights on a range of
matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism and, in her
most recent work, the insidiousness of the Hindu caste system. In an age of intellectual logrolling and
mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and
feeling' TIME magazine
Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things to the extraordinary The Ministry of Utmost
Happiness: a journey marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and readable, they speak
always in defence of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic
of financial, social, religious, military and governmental elites.

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Much of her own experience feeds into The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, not least the fact
that she studied to be an architect and has campaigned for Kashmiri independence. For herself, she
realized very quickly that architecture was not for her. “I graduated but I didn’t actually build anything,
because I wasn’t really cut out to be making beautiful homes for wealthy people or whatever,” she says,
smiling. “I had too many arguments with my bosses, Kept getting sacked for bad behavior, for
insolence!”

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The God of Small Things to wide acclaim. The semi-autobiographical work departed from the
conventional plots and light prose that had been typical among best-sellers. Composed in a lyrical
language about South Asian themes and characters in a narrative that wandered through time, Roy’s
novel became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author and won the 1998 Man Booker
Prize for Fiction.
The author’s subversive nature has made her accustomed to criticism. “Each time I step out, I
hear the snicker-snack of knives being sharpened but that’s good. It keeps me sharp”, said Arundhati
Roy when interviewed by an Indian magazine.
CONCLUSION :
Roy has also concentrated on penning down political issues. She has written on diverse topics
such as Narmada Dam project, India’s nuclear weapons and American power giant Enron’s activities in
India. She also served as a critic of neo-imperialism and has been linked with anti-globalization
movement.
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie
INTRODUCTION :
ChimamandaNgoziAdichie, born September 15, 1977, Enugu, Nigeria, Nigerian author whose
work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s.
In 2008 Adichie received a MaCAurthur Foundation fellowship. The following year she
released The Thing Around Your Neck, a critically acclaimed collection of short

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stories. Americanah (2013) centres on the romantic and existential truggles of a young Nigerian woman
studying in the United States.
Adichie’s nonfiction includes We Should All Be Feminists (2014), an essay adapted from a speech
she gave at a TEDx talk in 2012; parts of the speech were also featured in Beyonces song “Flawless”
(2013). Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions was published in 2017.
There is always two sides of coin, if you know only one your knowledge is incomplete and
dangerous also. This is what she talks about in her Ted Talk on “Dangers of Single Story”. She told that
how a single story narrated differently every time conditioned the mind of people to think about certain
things in a certain pattern. She also talks about the power which narrates the story and conditioned the
mind of people. She also said that single story will create archetype and archetypes are dangerous
because they are incomplete. At the end she said that, “When we reject single story, when we realized
that there is not a single story of any place, we regain a kind of paradise”.
I agree with her point, single story can create stressful situation for people. People should think
that every human, every place and everything on this earth has ups and downs. No one has only virtues
or only vices. Nothing is perfect, perfection is a myth. One should ponder on both sides of story.
First time I’ve heard Chimamanda and very impressed by her way of telling stories and her
thoughts. She tells her own life experience as story. Her pronunciations are very clear and when she
speaks she can touch the heart of audience by her words. After listening her speech now I also wants to
read her stories. It will be interesting, fun and good experience.
Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources
The department of English M.K. Bhavnagar University organized workshop on Quality and
Authenticity of web resources.(20 November, 2019)
In this workshop we learn that how which parameters are used to check the authenticity of web
resources.
The group task given to us by Dr. Dilip Barad was to analyze the web resources to frequently use
by us to gain our knowledge related to study.
We - Ashish Pithadiya and I (Vishva Gajjar) analyzed 4 different sites which we use frequently
for study purpose.

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We followed this chart for analysis and we got following average of the sites.
1. Gradesaver.com - 2.8
2. litcharts.com - 3
3. Nobelbiographoes.com -2.8
4. JSTOR.org - 4
1. Gradesaver.com
Gradesaver was founded in April 1999. It is one of the top editing and good educational value and the
most of the basic information is covered. It does not have information in depth.
2. litcharts.com
Thus site helps us in improving the close reading. They give the brief quotes. Information is all in very
much detail. So that students can easily that the whole idea of the particular text.

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3. Notablebiographies.com
Thus site is good for the Biographies. They give very much detailed information about the writer and the
work they have done.
4. JSTOR.com
It is a digital library of academic journals books and primary sources. They have the best of the
knowledge with the detailed information. It also provides a idea for a beginner to write a research paper
and how to have appropriate title of topic.is also provide the best quality.
“RANG MOHAN” - Youth Festival 2019
INTRODUCTION :
Here I wish to share my experience. Youth festival is one of the best festivals in which university
or specific college gives you the opportunity to perform or to show your skill or talents in different fields.
It is very important that someone observe your skill and motivate you or encourage you to do more and
gives you platform were the talent is valued . So Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University had
organized a four-day youth festival and given the name "RANG MOHAN” and the theme of YOUTH FEST
was “RANG MOHAN” attributed to 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. It's up to you how you
interpret this title. In this festival there, the university organized various events and there were many

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participants from various colleges. It is very interesting to meet new people or to know something new
or we can learn as well.
Sir always encourages us to participate in every event and to learn something or to have
experience of it. So, from our department many students participated in various events. I didn't
participated in event, but I was there as a volunteer and I got to learn many new things and also how to
handle the situation and the crowd. My other classmates were also there as a volunteer named Ashish
and Krishna who handled all the situations and events very well.
The first event was Kala-Yatra. In the event, I found many interesting themes.

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After that, on the second day, we had Inauguration Function in the amphitheatre of MKBU
campus. In this function I only found one best performance, the folk orchestra was performed by GTU
students. I really enjoyed this performance. After that, various competitions were held at the Campus.
On the second day, there was an event like Mimicry, Spot Painting, One-act Play, Quiz, Poetry
Recitation, Folk Dance, Paper Collage, Mime, Bhajan.
On the third day, the university organized the events such as Classical Dance, Elocution, Essay
writing, Mono acting, Mahanadi, Mono-Acting, Rangoli, Photography, Falk song, Clay Modeling, Poster
Making etc.
In the final day, the university organized the events such as Installation, Skit, Group Song and
the valedictory Function.
SKIT :
I would like to congregate my class for the best performance. Hina, Nirali, Alisha, Prinjal, Nasim,
Monica participated in the Skit competition under the guidance of AlpaPonda and Kaushal Trivedi
performed an extraordinary skit on LGBT theme. We have to think about LGBT. When we watch, at that
time you may feel Catharsis or as we know that in skit they give us one important massage.

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Bhajan Competition :
In bhajan competition, Nasim Gaha from Department of English participated in the event to
showcase her vocal skills. She performed a well.

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SPOT PAINTING :
Topics for Spot painting are Festival of Ganesha, war and peace, and village of Bhavnagar. In this
competition, KavishaAlagiya participated from Department of English.
Overall, we enjoyed a lot. Thank to our university that organised this wonderful Four Day Rana
Mohan festival.
"Sairandhri" by Vinod Joshi

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In Gujarati literature there are many poets and authors. Vinod Joshi is a famous Gujarati poet and
writer. His notable works are "Parant", "Shikhandi" "Tundil-tundika", and many other. He won many
awards. His recent notable work is "Sairandhri". He write this work in Australia. For creating this poem
he think a lot and suddenly in Australia he started writing. He completed this poem in Australia. So that
we can say that ' India's Sairandhri born in Australia'
The poem is based on the character of Draupadi from Mahabharata. This poem talk about very apt
point which we all are facing in our society that is Lost Identity. In this poem he represents one
viratParva from Mahabharata and he had taken one incident. But he just observed it and write his own
views or thing. Sairandhri has no power to show her identity. She has five Pandhava then even she is not
able to show her own identity. So poet created this kind of chaos in the poem. This poem is very difficult
to understand. So,
'Sairandhri' is a poem of lost identity
The poem start with one beautiful prayer:
"ળીજડીયુ ળેડી ઱ેખણ કીઘી,
સરસળતી માતા કાગલ નો
ખા઱ી ખુણો આપજો "
Language is applied on us. He uses both the language Sanskrit and Gujarati.Karna is her first choice
and she loves him. Poet's Sairandhri loves Karana. We can see the imagination of the poet that is not in
Mahabharata. Sairandhri was the Maid of Shudharshna. She lived with five Pandava but she can not talk
or show herself. She has to hide herself for one year. And we all are do this in our life. In the poem, I
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Lost identity :
We all have our own dual personality. This is the reality of the world that for some reason we
change our reality or our real personality and we lost our real identity or personality. This is like the
novel DrJeklly and Mr.hyde. like he had two personalities one is good or one is bad. This is not so much
important but important is our lost identity. We always trying to hide something from ourselves as well
as from others. Sometimes we do this for some good thing. Like in this beautiful poem we can see this
clearly.
WomansIdentity :
Sairandhri had struggled a lot. Because she cannot talk about herself with anyone. She was not
able to share anything with anyone. When she was in Dropadi's rip she had Krishna who help her when
she faces problems and she has five pandhava to help. But in this rip she is alone. Poets intention is very
clear in this beautiful poem that women has to fight and women can. Woman has power to control the
things. She can make her own decisions.The poem is good example of rewriting of Myth.
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This Blog is a part of classroom activities in which we have to interpret two works one is T.S.Eliot's
'Wasteland' and another is the story ' The Joke' by Anton Chekhov.
As we believe that all literature is one literature and connected with each other. When we read
one literature for example if you are reading one literary text at that time you may find some elements
or may same text or them in others literary texts. But we have to read all the work of art. If you are good
reader, than you may find difference as well as similarly in other literature. In one literature you can
apply many theories or terms. For example if you are aware of Northrop Frye's Archetypal literature,
you may apply it in different literature. As we know that T. S. Eliot wrote one of the best easy ' Tradition
and Individual talents '. In the easy he said that you have to understand everything like if you want to
write about current issues than first you have to read the past.
"pastness of the past and it's present"
There is one stanza in the poem "Wasteland" which is very similar to the story of Anton Chekhov
"The Joke".
"And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free"

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This stanza is connected with Chekhov's one short story. Both the scenes we can find one common
theme that is sexuality. In the Gujarati story we can find the symbol of mountains same way in the
waste land we can find it. When we read the Gujarati story, we come to know that the lover many a
time speak that I love you. As we believe that now a days this word are like jock for other. We all are
playing with this word. It is not believing that when someone says you that I am fall in love with you they
are truly loves you. Like in this Gujarati story it is not confirm that both are loving with each other or not.
This is not a love but a sexual perversion. So that we can say that both the work are connected with each
others in a one or the other way.
"That memory is for her the happiest, the most touching, the most beautiful one of her life. But for
me, now that I have grown older, I can no longer understand why I said those words and why I jested
with Nadia"
I like this line because in this line we can clearly see that they are not loving each other but The
main thing for both is to achieve the sexual pleasure. The story represents the reality of the world.
Girish Karnad : The Artist, the citizen and the question of truth
Girish Karnad was an Indian Actor, Film director and Kannada Writer. His Notable works are,
1. Tughalak 1964
2. Taledanda
He had Predominantly worked in South India and also in Cinema. He was a recipient of 1998
Jananpith Award and this was the highest literary honour conferred in India. He also conferred

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the Padma Bhushan and the Bagged several accolades for Kannda cinema. He started his acting with
1970 Kannada film Samskara. After that, he worked in other popular Kannada Movies like Tabbaliyu
,OndanonduKaladalli , Cheluvi etc. He was known for his role as Swami's Father in the Doordarshan
adaptation of "Mlgudi Days". He also worked in Hindi Movies like Nishaant, Manthan, Swami and
Pukaretc and also seen in "EkTha Tiger and "Tiger Zinda Hai". He also resists against wrong ideas. He was
a firm voice protesting writers and Journalists in India. Karnad wrote his first play "Yayati" in 1961 while
studying at Oxford University.
He passed away in Bengaluru.
Hate politics :
There are many writers who told us that he hates politics because we always think that everything
is fine and in a political party, there were great people who always give is the right things. But it is not
true. No doubt there were some good people or leaders but can we trust them? I hate the hyperbole of
politics because People should speak literal and measured truth. People should describe reality as it is
like many writers do including Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, GirishKarnad etc. On 2019, Over 200
Writers Including Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad Urge Indians To Vote Out 'Politics Of Hate'. So as a
writer, you have to see what is good for or bad. As a writer, you may not ask this but as a citizen, you
must ask that What is true? What is false?
Tipu Sultan would have enjoyed Status of Shivaji if he was a Hindu : said by Girish Karnad
This was also big controversy. Karnad said that
" It would been 'Apt' had the Bengaluru Internation Airport at Devanahalli near here been named
after Tipu Sultan rater than Kempegowda, a feudatory ruler under the erstwhile Vijayanagar Empire
which founded Bengaluru in 1537".
and he also said that,
" I feel that if Tipu Sultan was Hindu and not Muslim he would have attained the position in
Karnataka that ShivajiMaharaj enjoy in Maharashtra"
Through this two statement we can say that people may not agree with him because of Cast or
may they thing that Karnad believed in cast system. After that "anti-Kannada and anti-Hindu" [ By
people] Karnad said that,
" Today when we are celebrating this day as Deepawali and Tipu Sultan Day, we can also celebrate
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So we can see that he was not in favor of any political Parties like BJP but has always made known
his ideological opposition to Political parties.
Thinking Activity on "August: Patriotism and Religious Fervor"
K. R. S. Iyengar writes in Indian English writing :
"Freedom had come indeed, but it was not exactly the freedom that our writers of
yesterday had dreamed or sung about or the freedom that generations of patriot had
visualised and striven for. It was flawed freedom born in the hour of communal
disturbances of unprecedented ferocity and unbelievable bestiality."
This is a very interesting quote and maybe the reality of our nation. There are many writers who
took part in Indian's freedom struggle.
Rabindranath Tagore - remembered for his Bengali patriotic song 'EklaCholo Re'
1905
Bankim Chandra - composed 'VandeMataram'
MunshiPremchand - The novel king of Hindi language
Subhramani Bharti - known as "MahakaviBharati"

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SarojiniNaydu - The Nightingale of India.
There are a few female writers.
As we know, in India, there were many festivals as well as some Indian ritual. When We think
about other countries festival, we come to know that only India has more festivals than other foreign
countries. May be foreign countries think or may they also come to see all the festivals but after that
what is their reactions towards our nation? Obviously, either Good or Bad. There are some foreign
visitors who like our ritual or festivals. Let me give you one live example. When I was in sem 2 our
Vaidehi mam had invited one Foreign Guest who talked about Photography and his name was Franck
Vidal and he is working on a project photo Book on Morari Bapu and a good photographer. It was a nice
interaction with him. We enjoyed a lot. His project is on Indian Kathakar and one of the interesting
things is that he is believing in God shiva - Indian God. He said that:
'There is nothing to worry when Mahadev is sitting at the back seat of my bike'
My points are that there were some visitors who like our festival or ritual or other such things.
We have to see the historical facts or history behind all these festivals.
Indian festivals and rituals :
India is known for non-stop Festivals. Indian festivals celebrate by religion, the phases of the moon,
culture, the seasons, India’s epic stories etc. We can find difference according to cast like Hindu has
different festivals or rituals and Muslims has different festivals or rituals. Islamic Festivals Are
Muharram, Rajab, Ramadan, BakraEid, Eidul-Fitr, Natal etc. So we can find different cultures.

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August is the Month of monsoon :
In every Month, we can find festivals but August is the month of festivals. The month of monsoon
sees some important Indian festivals and events that range from cultural to religious in nature. Festivals
in August include the RakshaBandhan and the harvest festival of Kerala known as 'Onam'. Then we have
the Independence Day of India as one of the most important August festivals.
The Independence Day of India:
August 15 is a special date for every Indian heart. The magic of the tricolor takes over and each
Indian citizen is brimming with patriotism on this day. On this day, people talk about the nation like, first
we talk about the past, War and all these things than we remember all those who laid down their lives in
the freedom struggle and then we end our day. Why on this specific day do we remember all these
things? Independence Day is not just about flaunting our patriotic zest or a one-day celebration. We
have to understand the true meaning of Independence. If you are not celebrating this day, people may
call you anti-patriotic.
ShitalaSaatam :
In Indian, we may all celebrate this festival. On this day, we are eating cold food and preying or we
may enjoy the 'ShiralasaatamMela'. But why we are celebrating this festival? For this, we have to read
the history of that time or that day. What are the reasons behind this and why on this specific day or in
Month? So SitalaaSaatam is the day which we witness the conflict between religion and science. We can
not convince our society or even our family members. Their religion is good for them, not science or
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In past days, we have to go for vaccination to save ourselves from the life-threatening disease like
smallpox which means 'Shitala'. We can not control. The faith behind eating cold food is this will prevent
diseases like ori or Shitala but the scientific reason behind this may be by eating cold food will increase
immunity. We have to think that what is better for your body cold or hot food?
Fleming said,
" The real difference between hot, cooked foods and cold, raw foods is their
nutritional value. “In general, cooking leaches vitamins and nutrients out of fruits
and vegetables,” Fleming said, “so the less cooked the better.”
According to D.P. Agrawal &Lalit Tiwari,
"Smallpox inoculation is an ancient Indian tradition and was practised in India
before the West."
Inoculation VS. Vaccination :
Vaccination, introduced by Jenner in 1798, was based upon the use of a mild, attenuated virus
(cowpox virus) which produced a local infection at the site of inoculation yet led to a high level of
immunity to smallpox. A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular
disease. Vaccines are made with ingredients that make them safe and effective to protect your child
from disease. Vaccines prevent an estimated 2–3 million deaths worldwide every year. But, a further 1.5
million lives could be saved annually with better global vaccine coverage.
Saadat Hasan Manto - played by NawazuddinSiddiqui :
In this video, Siddiqui talks about some real or interesting points. He says that we have to write
about everything which exists in the world. We think this is good or this is bad or when you speak world
like 'veshia' at that time people may think that you are not good human beings because you are using
this kind of word. But this is the reality of the world. You have to write about all the things that exist in
the world. When you say this is not good work at that time first you have to think about your society or
you have to observe. It may happen that this is bad for you not for others and this is your interpretation
or your perspective.Just write whatever you want to write. Don't think that what people talk or think
about you. If you are right then do.
I like one line that "If you respect literature you must accept not only the very idealist, altruist
vision of human beings but also the infernal vision of them" when you say that I love literature and I
respect literature, at that time you may accept some work of literature which is idealist. In our literature
there are many novels and plays which are based on feminist approach. For example in the Interview, he
give one example, Nabokov's "Lolita", 20th century novel. Readers attacked it because they claim the
main character is a pedophile. "Pedophile" means someone who is sexually interested in children.

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Nabokov tells the story of humbert who is a perfect example of a pedophile. According to me this novel
is mirror of society. So In our society there are many pedophile.
This Bloody Line – A Film By Ram Madhvani :
This is a very good short film. This short film is on a poem by W. H. Auden on the man who drew
the line to divide India and Pakistan. The title of the short film is also an apt one. When you speak or
write something at that time you have to be careful because there are some people who write about
you like in this video the lines are written. He also uses the world the Radcliffe lines. They may only
mention your bad points, not good points. When you see, the camera focus on the book Gita. I like one
line spoken by him
"This was one country... one heart cut into two.."
We can also see the concept of 'Desa vs Rashtra'.
Then he talks about Gandhi that this partition is going to create a lot of violence and he talks about
Ahimsa - non-violence. So this video is about partition and about patriotism.
Interpretation of "Breath" Play by Samuel Beckett

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Breath is a play written by Samuel Beckett in the 1969. It considered as a smallest play ever
written. It is only about 30 second play. It also considered as experimental play. This play can be
interpreted many ways. The play consider as absurd play. Here I tried to interpretate play.
Meaning of the Breath :
Breath means both life and death. In life it consider as the symbol of action. We all are habituated
of breathing in life rather than death. Person doesn't realize its actually importance of living life. The
play reflects the reality of human life. It reflects meaningless and Existentialism. Meaningless in the
sense that people has no any purpose of living life. While waiting for something we are living life in
between and the wait is for death. Breathing help us to reach for ultimate death. So Breath is the
symbol of Bridge between life and death.
The script of the play:
CURTAIN Up
1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.
2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum -
together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.
3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten
seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds.
CURTAIN Down
This script of play is also consider as a script of life. The time of play is 30 seconds shows that how
quickly time passes.
1) Breath by Damien Hirst :

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Materialistic Earth
Natural Earth
In this video it describes materialistic things. People born in materialistic world. Earth is replaced
by Materialistic garbage. It shows how people polluted natural world and turn it into Materialistic world
with full of garbage like plastic , technical machines , medicines. It also shows effect of global warming.
2) Breath - Samuel Beckett by Liana De Jourdan:
In this video shows fresh fruits and vegetables and pesticides package of fruit juices . People eat
vegetables and fruits to maintain their health but this things are meaningless no one escape from death.
These fruits and vegetables helps to live healthy life but it doesn't save us from ultimate death. Also this
pesticide from fruit juice are also harmful to human health.
3) National Theater School First Year Technical Production Class project, production of Samuel Beckett's
play Breath:

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In this video it's shown light and garbage. Here light is the symbol of life. Garbage is symbol of
meaningless like our life. Garbage made from many meaning less things. Life is also like that people do
things without any meaning. This video try to interprets two angles. Crying of child at beginning shows
birth of person and at the end shows death of person. So people come into world with crying and gone
with making others cry. Child crying at birth gives happiness to others but at the end of life crying
become symbol of unhappiness. It shows how the meaning of one thing changes according to situation.
4) Samuel Beckett Breath ( Modern Interpretation ):
This video reflects modern era. In this video cover life of human from birth to death. How human is
surrounded by materialistic things. It shows development of science and technology. It reflects paradox
of science and Nature. Nature shows detachment from things. People will come and go but Nature will
never work according to it. Life goes on and on. In the world person is surrounded by other human
beings though one feels loneliness. It also shows reality of human life. Photographs are symbol of
memories people tries to preserve of their good moments. In this also shows human health that how
body of human depends on medicine. People tries to control death with the help of science but all these
things are meaning less because death will never stop by anything. So these all things shows absurdity of
life. How human life is meaningless.
Films of Post Colonial studies: Midnight's Children and The Reluctant
Fundamentalist
Midnight's Children:

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Postcolonial as the word itself shows refers to period after colonialism. Colonialism is refferd to
subjugation of weak countries and nations by the strong ones. When subjugation of colonizer by the
colonized comes to its end and the colonizer physically leaves, it leaves behind some social, economical
and emotional traces, which then become part of the previously colonized society. Postcolonial studies
or literature is the literature created after the physical departure of colonizer from the colonized
territory.
Midnight's Children is a 2012 Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of
the same name. The film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Vancouver
International Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival. The film was also a nominee for Best
Picture and seven other categories at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, winning two awards.
Midnight's Children is the story of Saleem Sinai, the narrator, whose birth parallels the emergence
of independent India. By the apt use of magical realism, he narrates his life story and relates it to the
national history of India. Rushdie uses the magical realist technique to talk about the postcolonial
people of India, and different postcolonial issues. Instead of using realist technique, he employs this
particular technique to expose and comment on different social and political problems a newly
independent country like India has to encounter.
This piece of art is among the most famous postcolonial social, cultural, political and religious
practices that were evident in India. It deals with the life of almost three generation in detail, it is set in
the time when India was under British rule till the year after independence so it covers the period from
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postcolonial picture of India. Magic realism is the narrative style of this novel and also the flash back
method.
The magic realism narrative adds beauty and vigor to the historical events represented in the novel
and movie. Many real events are told and discussed here with addition of fantasy. This movie represents
different geographical boundaries of India after independence. I feel that the powers they posses
represent the quality of the particular areas they belong.
Rushdie uses religious hybridity in to symbolize the identity crisis of India at the time of
independence. The religious uncertanity of the characters is also the religious uncertanity of India. The
root of the problem, however, does not start with independence, but instead, trace back to Adam's
return from abroad and dismissal of his traditional religion.
The beginning and the ending frame of the movie is almost same. It begins and ends with Saleem's
birthday, fire crackers and ending of 14 August and rising of 15 August our independence day.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. It is a post-9/11story about the impact of the Al
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The film premiered as the opening film for the 69th Venice International Film Festival, and at
the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. The film had a limited release in the United States, India,
and in Europe and North America. In Pakistan, the film was released in Urdu with a changed title
as Changez on 24 May 2013. The film won "Centenary Award" at the 43rd International Film Festival of
India held in Goa.
The plot begins with the kidnapping of Anse Rainier, an American professor at Lahore
University. After which an American Journalist Bobby Lincoln, a CIA agent comes to interview the
protagonist Changez Khan at small cafe in Lahore. Story start with flash back technique and we see the
frame narrative technique was used in the movie. Changez Khan opens up in front of Bobby and tells
about his life that how he lived in America in last one decade, and then leaved U.S. As like other he was
also enchanted with the American dream. For that he struggles a lot and gets success. He becomes CEO
of the company and he enjoy to being CEO. But one event of 9/11 changes his life's story completely in
an unbelievable manner.
The concept of racism we find in the entire movie. When the American colleague of Changez Khan
has been kidnapped, at that time the main suspect was Changez because he was a Muslim tutor.
When Changez went for interview at that time Jim Mack makes fun on Changez this shows the
mindset of the white people towards black people.
“Looks are deceiving”
This dialogues reflects postcolonial aspect of racism. Most of the time people are judged according
to their look, but looks deceives people. First when Changez has looks like American people at that time
white people have no problem but when he has beard and started appearing like Muslim, it become
problematic.
Very first time Changez fills like an outsider in America when American police treated him as
terrorist because he has beard like Muslim. In that scene we can see that there is a reflection of Changez
on glass and WTC tower is blasting, which suggests the blast of an American dream of Changez. The
felling of “Otherness” Changez feels in America. He becomes stranger for America because of his
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In this movie we find term like, racism, terrorism and post colonialism. In the movie we find deep
impact of racism and colonialism in mind of white people. The same thing we find in the movie New-
York also.
Thiong'o, Tharoor and Films on Colonial History
Shashi Tharoor:
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Language: English
Genre: History
Publication date: March 2007
Publisher: Aleph (India), C. Hurst & Co. (UK)

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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India is a book by Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician
and diplomat. The book depicts the atrocities and wrongdoings that were committed in the Indian sub-
continent during the British Raj. It was published in India under the title: 'An Era of Darkness: The British
Empire in India'.
Tharoor made a speech over a 2015 Oxford Union debate on the topic "Does Britain owe
reparations to its former colonies?" which went viral over the web. Subsequently, his publisher floted
the idea to transform the speech into a book. Whilst he was initially skeptical, he later went to write a
330 page book.
what did I learn about my country's dark history as a subject of the British Raj? These are just some
of the facts that absolutely shocked me...
Britain destroyed India's famed textile, shipbuilding and steel industries, reducing India's GDP to 3% by
the time they departed India (a sharp contrast to the early 1800s when India's share of the world
economy was a whopping 23%).
Courtesy the heavy taxation levied upon Indians during the Raj, India was Britain's biggest source of
revenue at the end of the 19th century.
Over 74,000 Indian soldiers died fighting Britain's cause in World War 1; London's Imperial War
Museum pays tribute to animals that went to war, but sacrifices by millions of Indians remain untold
stories.
The British were not interested in educating Indians and left India with a sordid 16% literacy rate. They
taught English to a handful of Indians only for the sake of interpretation.
The railways built by Britain in India was not for the benefit of Indians but to further their colonial cause
and profit from trade.
One Briton discovered tea leaves in Assam, and thus spurred India's tea cultivation spree by the British,
for the British. British greed for commercial gains resulted in vast forest lands to be razed down, to grow
tea, coffee and timber.
When General Dyer, the man behind the JallianwalaBagh Massacre, ordered his soldiers to fire every
bullet unannounced in the hearts of 15,000 people gathered unarmed to celebrate Baisakhi, the British
rewarded him a handsome financial sum and presented him a bejeweled sword!
Colonialists like Thomas Pitt looted India; he took off to Britain after resigning from the post of Governor
of Madras after acquiring a 400 carat gem. The 'Pitt Diamond' represented the widespread extraction of
wealth by the British from India.
The British 'Divide and Rule' policy resulted in the Hindu-Muslim strife that eventually culminated
into the Partition of India in 1947, creating a new Pakistan that Indians of Muslim faith could call home.
British barrister Cyril Radcliffe was tasked to partition India and Pakistan within 40 days; the lines he
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Nearly 4 million Bengalis died in the Bengal famine of 1943 a.k.a. 'India's Forgotten Holocaust'. Despite
this, Winston Churchill diverted food from starving Indians to well taken care of British soldiers in
Greece, and blamed Indians for 'breeding like rabbits', going as far as to question 'Why hasn't Gandhi
died yet?'
Then and Now: Colonialism, Imperialism and Postcolonialism
Ania Loomba:
Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson professor in the field of English at the Pennsylvanian popular
works are:
1. ‘Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama.
2. ‘Dead Woman Tell No Tales: Issues of
Female subjectivity.’
3.’Shakespeare, Race and colonialism(2002)

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4.’Postcolonial studies and Beyond(2005)
There are some great and influential works of Ania Loomba.
The term colonialism is so much near to the word ‘imperialism’.
The term according to ‘OED’ it’s comes from the Roman term ‘colonia’ which means ‘farm’or
‘settlement’. It means Roman who settled in other lands but still their deep craving for their own land.
The ‘oxford English Dictionary’ defined it as-
“A settlement in a new country… a body of people who settle in a new locality, forming a
community subject to or connected with their parent state; the community so formed , consisting of the
original settlers and their descendants and successors, as long as the connection with the parent state is
kept up.”
Ania Loomba’s colonialism/ post colonialism (p.7)
The process of colonialism/post colonialism today just remain for the land, But, it’s became much
wider and wider. It’s based on language, land, race, gender ,attitude economy there are all those thing
decides that one is ‘superior’ another is ‘Inferior’ And, Ania Loomba talked about the same things here.

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Ania Loomba’s views about colonialism/ post colonialism:
Colonialism is the physical occupation of territory and post-colonialism deals with The effects of
colonization on cultures and societies. In the beginning of the book, on the publication of the ‘second
Edition’ of the book Peter Hulme given few lines that-
“Colonialism / post colonialism is both a crystal-clear to read.” the book beachers who dents
radical potential. It’s exactly the sort of book teachers who dents to read.”
-Peter Hulme, Department of Literature, Film and The university.
Ania Loomba’s colonialism/post colonialism.
In her book ‘colonialism/post colonialism’. she mainly discussed about how ‘colonialism’ relevant
with the person, place or anything. This book ‘colonialism / post colonialism mainly divided in to the
three Parts.
In which 1 chapter about colonialism/post colonialism,
Imperialism, Neo-colonialism, post-colonial discourse etc.
2nd chapter relates with the ‘Identities’ about race, class, colonialism psychoanalysis, sexuality and
hybridity.
3rd chapter about ‘challenging colonialism’-Nationalism and Pan-Nationalism, Feminism, Nationalism,
and post colonialism, can the subaltern speak? Post-modernism, and Postcolonial studies.
And, The last chapter about ‘Globalization’ Colonialism/ post colonialism . So, let see all some views of
Ania Loomba.
Colonialism / Post colonialism
As we earlier discussed “colonialism” means first world country power over second, third and
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Imperialism:
The ‘OED’ defines ‘imperial’ as ‘pertaining to empire and’ imperialism’ as the ‘rule of an emperor,
especially when despotic or arbitrary and, this word coined by British prime minister Benjamin in Disraeli
in 1870s and Joseph chamberlain supporter of the movement.
Movie review - The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin
 Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
 Produced by: Charlie Chaplin
 Written by: Charlie Chaplin
 Music by: Charlie Chaplin
 Edited by: Willard Nico, Harold Rice
 Release date: October 15, 1940 (New York), March 7, 1941 (London)
 Language: English

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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed,
produced, scored by and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his
other films. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the
period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true sound film.
The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful
film. Modern critics have also praised it as a historically significant film and an important work of satire,
and in 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United State National Film
Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The Great Dictator was nominated
for five Academy Awards - Outstanding Production, Best Actor, Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor for
Jack Oakie and Best Music.
The Great Dictator was Chaplin’s first film with dialogue. Chaplin plays both a little Jewish barber,
living in the ghetto, and Hynkel, the dictator ruler of Tomainia. In his autobiography Chaplin quotes

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himself as having said: “One doesn’t have to be a Jew to be anti Nazi. All one has to be is a normal
decent human being.”
Chaplin and Hitler were born within a week of one another. “There was something uncanny in the
resemblance between the Little Tramp and Adolf Hitler, representing opposite poles of humanity, ”
writes Chaplin biographer David Robinson, reproducing an unsigned article from The Spectator dated
21st April 1939: “Providence was in an ironical mood when, fifty years ago this week, it was ordained
that Charles Chaplin and Adolf Hitler should make their entry into the world within four days of each
other….Each in his own way has expressed the ideas, sentiments, aspirations of the millions of struggling
citizens ground between the upper and the lower millstone of society. Each has mirrored the same
reality – the predicament of the “little man” in modern society. Each is a distorting mirror, the one for
good, the other for untold evil.”
Chaplin spent many months drafting and re-writing the speech for the end of the film, a call for
peace from the barber who has been mistaken for Hynkel. Many people criticized the speech, and
thought it was superfluous to the film. Others found it uplifting. Regrettably Chaplin’s words are as
relevant today as they were in 1940.
Movie review - Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin

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 Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
 Produced by: Charlie Chaplin
 Written by: Charlie Chaplin
 Music by: Charlie Chaplin
 Edited by: Willard Nico
 Release date: February 5, 1936
 Language: English
Modern Times is a 1936 American comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which
his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a
comment on the desperate employment and financial conditions many people faced during the great
depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The
movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.

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Modern Times, American silent film that starred Charlie Chaplin as a man at odds with modern
technology. It is regarded as the last great silent film. The film, which was set during the Great
Depression, centers on a luckless factory worker who finds himself to unnerve by trying to cope with the
modern equipment he must operate that he suffers a breakdown.
Modern Times was Charlie's first film after five years of hibernation in the 1930s. He didn't much
like talkies and despite the introduction of sound in 1927, his "City Lights" (1931) was defiantly silent.
With Modern Times a fable about automation, assembly lines and the effective way to introduce
sound without disturbing his comedy of pantomime: The voices in the movie are channeled through
other media. The ruthless steel tycoon talks over closed-circuit television, a crackpot inventor brings in a
sound is Charlie's famous tryout as a singing waiter; perhaps after Garbo spoke, the only thing left was
for Charlie to sing.
He set out to transform his observation and anxieties into comedy. The little Tramp - described in
the film credits as a "Factory Worker" - is now one of the millions coping with the problems of the
1930s, which are not so very different from anxieties of the 21st century - poverty, unemployment,
strikes and strike breakers, political intolerance, economic inequalities, the tyranny of the machine,
narcotics. The film's portentous opening - "The story of industry, of individual enterprise - humanity
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herded and of workers streaming out of a factory. Chaplin's character is first seen as a worker being
driven crazy by his monotonous, inhuman work on a conveyor belt to test and being used as a guinea pig
to test a machine to feed workers as they work. In this movie there are sequences of frame which
constantly moves between hope and despair. It is also shown that if they dream they dream for their
basic needs like food, clothes, shelter, farm, animals etc. It was the time were people has to struggle a
lot to complete there and family's basic needs. The movie ends with positivity and hope as it was the
morning time not an evening or fogy morning.
Modern Times is regarded as one of the Charlie's most lighthearted films. There is certainly plenty
of social criticism, but he plays the story mostly for laughs. The sight gag of Chaplin haplessly trying to
keep pace with the assembly line in the factory is regarded as a classic comedy sequence.
Moni MohsinSharmeen
Moni Mohsin Sharmeen in most of her works highlights the inequality with women which was
prevailed in her society. She is aware from the current situation and what is needed in market. She
doesn't highlight only of the suffering of women but she much aware about the facts that now a days
feminism was in prevailing position and the voice in favor of feminism definitely discussed in society.
These types of writers are inviting negative comments as for their publicity.
There are many places where the writer tris to show the reality. Many people not like Arvind
Adiga because he shows the reality of India, bad side of India so people who liked to see the glory of
their nation and not accept him.
The prime duty of any literary writer is to present the contemporary issues and pictures of
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many followers of ideology and political discourses had try to banned this kind of harsh reality because
they do not bear the bad images of their culture and country.
Generally, the writer must write about the glory and positive that western people give awards
on our bed images and they are happy because western people feel happy when they see our poor
condition. If we want to reform our poor society then this kind of work is very important to open the
eyes of power.
Rivers and Tides
Andy Golds worthy is a British Sculptur, photographer and environmentalist who produces site specific
sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban setting. He doesn't use any particular tool to create
his piece of art. He goes to the nature, finds something which is given by nature, and after making it
back to the nature. He is working with time. He knows when the sea will touch his work. He knows after
how many days the art will show up. With that understanding of time he creates something beautiful.
He believes i flow, flow of everything. He also says that everything has fluidity. Here we are talking about
his documentary, "River and Tides - Working with Time".
With the passage of time this stone house is dissolved in river. Time is powerful and nothing is immortal.
There is one poem by Shakespeare "Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments" which deals with the

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theme of immortality through verse. The thought is about the futility of monuments and statues is
developed and wounded up very skillfully.
Here, we can see that how he represents the process of life and death through nature. The very thing
that brought it to life will bring about death. It represents that everything in life is temporary and
everything will be changed or destroyed as the time passes.
Online discussion on Mario Vargas Llosa's Interview
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist was awarded the noble prize for literature in 2010. His
most recent novel is “The Neighborhood”. Here I try to point out some ideas which I like the most from
his interview for the world post by Michael Skafidas, a journalist and professor of comparative literature
at City University of New York.
I personally believe that it is right to denounce abuses against woman. As we know that in our
society abuses against women are increasing day by day. As mentioned below here, he gave an example
of feminist attacked in Nabokov's "Lolita", it is the best novel of 20th century.
But feminism now has a kind of problem. It has become very sectarian, very dogmatic, and I think you
have to criticize and oppose these trends. For example, recently we have had a big debate in Spain when
a group of feminists attacked Nabokov’s “Lolita,” which I think is one of the greatest 20th century
novels. They attacked it because they claim the main character is a pedophile. With this criterion,
literature will disappear. It is grotesque! If you respect literature you must accept not only the very
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The second is that in which George Bataille said that in human beings, there are angels and
devils. Sometimes the angels are important, but for literature, devils are important too. Literature is a
testimony of what we want to hide in the real word. This is the raison d’être of literature. You cannot
attack literature for our vices and prejudices and stupidities.
The third one is that in which Liosa said that, today's world young generation give the
importance to image more than ideas. It is very harmful to youth that they think those images are
creative for modern time but they do not think that this century is the age of Photoshop and post truth.
"Lagaan" - Movie Review
On the special occasion of Independence day ,film screening of movie "Lagaan" was organized by
film screening committee members of our English department of MK Bhavnagar University. As a
students of Literature we have to watch the movie with the help of various literary approaches and
theories not only as a sake of entertainment.“Lagaan – once upon a time in India” movie was released in
2001.
It is a sports-drama film, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, produced by Aamir Khan and Mansoor
Khan, written by Gowariker and Abbas Tyrewala. The film is set in the Victorian period of India's Colonial
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Patriotism
The main theme of the movie is patriotism. In the movie the protagonist Bhuvan has a such
qualities. Bhuvan shows the great courage in his rebellion against British providence. He wants the
welfer of the village people and that’s why he also encourages or motives them to rebel against British
providence. The main reason behind their rebellion is that they have a strong inclination of their own
land. The farmers have to pay yearly lagaan to the king and then king have to pay to the British captain.
When they were suffering from draught and was not able to pay their lagaan, at that time captain
Russell has doubled the text and also challenged the people of village to beat them in cricket match and
three years of tax will be removed or erased. People of village are very hard at their work because they
want to defeat the British players in match. This shows their passion for their land.
Rural India
The setting of the movie largely remains in the village and it also presents the actual situation of
India at the time of British governor. They have to face a lot of social problems and as well as economic
problems because the agricultural activities are only their chief resource of their livelihood. And also the
Britishers imposed the high taxes on the farmers. The culture and religious atmosphere also shows the
real rural India. The dialect which were used by people that also represent the country side. They have
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Subaltern theory
Subaltern means marginalization in caste, gender, race, etc by dominace of power. Here the
character of king is also observed as marginalized character he is under the british rules and he can not
do anything against him. His voice is oppressed by the British Captain.
The character of Kachra is marginalized character who belongs to lower class. And when Bhuvan elects
Kachra as in the team of cricket at that time his other teammates deny to take him as team member
because he is untouchable. The other marginalized character is Gauri. She wants to play cricket but his
father denies her and says to do only household work.
Post-colonialism
The effect of post colonialism is still present among Indians. In the film there is only a thing which
presents post colonialism is the game of cricket. There is colonial game Cricket which was played by the
Indians to win the challenge given by the Britishers. They accept to play cricket because they want
freedom from tax but now in free India why this game is more famous than any other game. It clearly
shows that how still British people ruling our mind. This is the reason why cricket is more played and
watched than our national game. There is strong impact of the Britishers over the mind of Indians that
still in present they are not able to come out from this game.

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Aishwaryam Youth festival 2018 Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University has celebrated the
“AishwaryamYuvaManthan”- youth festival of three days on 26th, 27th and 28th October. The entire
festival was hosted by Takshashila institute of Science and Commerce collage as
“AishwaryamYuvaManthan”. There were many events like Skit, Mono- Acting, One act play, Rangoli,
Cartooning, Poster Making, Installation, On the spot painting, Poetry Reciatation, Western group and
solo song and many others events. This festival allows young people to bring out their talent in various
event and competition. During those days I have attended several events like One act play, Mono acting,
western and solo song competition and rangoli. So this blog is a part of task activity given by our
professor Dr. Dilip Barad Sir in which we have to write down on events that were attended by us and try
to interpret with various literary theory.

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ONE ACT PLAY

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In one act play session I have watched one act play: “SikkaniTrijiBaju”. The play represents the
suffering of the third gender. The title of this play is itself significant. SikkaniTrijiBaju or Third side of
coin- As we know that every coin has two side which is called as heads and tails. In the same way if we
look in the society of humankind there are two gender which is known as Man or Woman. But what
about the third gender? This play SikkaniTrijiBaju tries to show the suffering of third gender and which
types of problems they have to face and how they are humiliated by society.
If we try to interpret this play with feminist perspective than we can say that this play
represents the suffering of the mother or a girl who gave birth to the third gender child who known as
Kinner or Hijada. She humiliated by society as far as humiliated by her own family members. She forced
to leave the house. Rather than suffering this humiliation by family members she left the house and
raised up her child alone.
MONO ACTING
I have seen a mono acting about the suffering of Lady Hawker which was very well performed
and full of all types of emotions like happy, sad, anger. The situation of woman in patriarchal society was
reflected by this mono acting. It started with the comedy but suddenly it was moving from comedy to
seriousness, when a customer asked her about her daughter. With the full of tears in her eyes, she gave
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mono acting she generated the catharsis among all audience and was able to make the audience cry
with her lively performance.
Post-Truth
This post is in reference to the work given here:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/eng_dept_bu/CO65ephVcOA/zghJY39TCAAJ
Post-truth is a new word, it has been chosen as the word of the year for 2016 by the Oxford English
Dictionary. Post-truth is a compound word, which is a word comprised of two words joined together to
create a new word with a new meaning.
Post-truth describes a situation in which the important of actual facts is supplanted by appeals to
emotion and personal prejudices in influencing public opinion. The prefix post means after, though
beginning in the 1970s it began to be used to designate a time when something becomes irrelevant. An
example of this use is the word post-racial. First used in the 1990s, the term post-truth was popularized
with publication of the book The Post-truth Era (2004), written by Ralph Keyes. The term post truth is
mostly used in the sense of politics, a political philosophy which stresses emotion and personal
prejudices over objective fact or specific policy. A related term is post-truthers.

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In theoretical definition, post-truth means objective facts are less influential in shaping public
opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
In academic definition, post-truth means, "Systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality
in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations maybe drawn in an illogical fashion.
Individuals create their own 'subjective social reality' from their perception of the input."
In real world sense, we the common people always have been manipulated by the powerful, the
aristocratic, the dictator, the historians, the liberal and the influential. The people who had power
always used his/her position to make us believe, this is the correct 'truth'. However its always been
subjective and debatable. I mean, read about Sir Winston Churchill, he was the mass murderer of
millions of people, but he always been regarded as a War Hero which is fare from the fact.

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In the post-truth era, borders blur between truth and lies, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and
nonfiction. Deceiving others becomes a challenge, a game and ultimately a habit. As the volume of
strangers and acquaintances in our lives rises, so do opportunities to improve on the truth. The result is
a widespread sense that much of what told can't be trusted.