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1.) ‘The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy. Oh, God, make small The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie. “The  Embankment’- The fantasia of a fallen Gentleman on a cold,bitter night.’fallen gentleman's reflects on his past and how he found pleasure in worldly social activities.The narrator's calling himself a “fallen Gentleman”.the war 'finesse of fiddles’ suggesting musical gathering and flash of gold heels on the hard pavement us use her beautiful women.she is  prostitute. 2.) "Darkness" - Joseph Campbell                   Darkness        I stop to watch a star shine        in the boghole -        A star no longer, but a silver         ribbon of light. ...

Midnight's children novel written by Salman Rushdie.The novel described India 's transition from British colonialism to Independence and partition of India. film based on novel Midnight's children which was  directed by Deepa Mehta. The film is narrated in many ways like, Freedom struggle, hybrid identities, magic realism. Hybridity :- Saleem is a perfect representation of the hybrid man.  He is a character of mixed backgrounds the son of colonial named Methowold and a poor indian women vanita and raised as a son of the middle class sinais. Adam,son of Shivd Parvati, which also a mixture of identity.  Magical realism :- The Magical realism narrative adds beauty and vigor of the historical events represented in this movie otherwise movie become boring to watch. The midnight children not be ordinary kids, they had supernatural powers. Saleem's incredibale sense of smell.  Parvati doing magic as a real art of her. Abracadabra, which invisibility basket sig...

Shashi Tharoor is member of parliament, he given postcolonial argument. He written a book on that  'An Era of Darkness'.  He asserts that Britishers are not developers of any colonies. According to him real Thugs Of Hindustan were Britishers, in the name of free trade they are looting the Indians. In a way the word loot is a Hindi word and they taking the word in their dictionary. This is how Shashi Tharoor make a satire on British Empire.  Shashi Tharoor make claims that, when the Britishers were left in 1947 from India, 90% of the population living below the poverty line. The growth rate of India from 1900 to 1947 was 0.001%. Britishers imposed taxes on the import of Indian textile. In real sense they make fool of Indians in the name of business and achieved captive market    That is private profit of English and public risk of Indian.   Many Indians died because of them.During second world war in the great Bengal phenomenon , 4 million peopl...

1) Orientalism tries to answer the question of why, when we think of the Middle East for example, we have a preconceived notion of what kind of people lives there, what they believe, how they act. Even though we may never have been there, or indeed even met anyone from there. More generally Orientalism asks, how do we come to understand people, strangers, who look different to us by virtue of the colour of their skin?” 2)   How do we understand the natives we are encountering so we can conquer and subdue them easier? This process of Orientalism makes this general process more formal in that it presents itself as objective knowledge. Said identifies "Napoleons"  conquest of Egypt in 1798 as marketing a new kind of imperial and colonial conquest, that inaugurates the project of orientalism. 3) In American Orientalism The differences between different kinds of Orientalisms are in effect the differences between different experiences of what is called the Orient. Edward ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche is a Nigerian Novelist, short stories and writer of non fiction. Her novels are :~ 1]Purple Hibiscus  (2003), 2]Half of a yellow sun (2006), 3]Americanah  (2013) Shorts stories : 1]The Thing around your neck 2]Book length essay 3]We should all be feminist (2014) She is also a good speaker. 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. In his topic she talked about danger of a single story. She talk about her family, her childhood writing, her view about the literature. She read and write only about British story and white characters. First she simple immitate the things and reading about the thing actually she found around herself. As we found that she simply speak that the thinks she never found around her, to write about herself. This thing shows the denger of single reading that she wrote the things she never feel. It also shows the power of colo...

Recently we watched 'Breathe' the shortest play by Samuel Beckett, to understand the concept of the theatre of absurd. When we watched these types of absurd play we feel that nothing happens on the stage but there is always something behind nothing. Nothing happens without purpose. Even our existence on the earth is for some reason. This play is very short but it say many thing about life. First of all the title of this play itself says everything. 'Breath' which means the process of inhalation and exhalation. By first watching of this video we didn't get proper meaning and also we can't see the clear meaning of it. At the beginning of this video we see nothing in proper place all thing are look's like garbage. We also listen someone's breath in this video it show with the garbage. It can be interpreted as that the sound of breath suggest deep harsh of someone. We can also say that human world is full of thought which lead's us nothingness....

On 16,17 and 18 August, department of English invited Prof. J. H. Khan. We had discussion on several topics. We were influenced from him.He also shared information about NET/SLET exams. Dr. Khan taught us that how to articulated sounds in language and in language their is different parts of it. He also included what is general English and what is English for specific purposes, communication - it is a task to perform. There is difference between ESP and EAP, and the information about semantics and pragmatics. He has influence on English language and he says that, language is a social institution and it is a product of culture. Prof. Khan taught us English for specific purposes and English for academic purposes.  ESP, focus on teaching English and academic involves research, analysis, understanding. ESP, it is pragmatic discipline. In English for literary purposes, the language of poetry, the language of drama and the language of novel. Basically the discussion centred on Eng...

In our department Dr. Jay mehta as a guest lecturer was invited. In this four day lecture with him we learn many things. He was specially came to deal with Edger Allan Poe' s short stories. But by the time we came to know he was very interested in Gazal , shayri , poems. In this love of poet and art he also created his own poems and shayaries , which was amazing. He deals with different way of teaching. He taught short stories of Edger poe ' s , which are full with the element of horror, suspence , thriller and Gothic elements. But the way Jaysir deals with it, it  become very interesting. There is no need of further reading of stories. In ' The tell- tale heart ' murder of an old man because of awkward eye. It was cold- blooded murder. Split personality of narrator is reflected and revelance of subconscious level . In ' Black cat ' narrator loves the pets but he becomes made. When he ignored by cat not accept it and killed it. But fear and burden...

Recently I have attended the expert lecture on postcolonial theory.  Prof. Ranganathan is specialist in postcolonialism,  He came from Central university of Gujrat.  It was very fruitful sessions for us. In Three Day session he deals with : - Black skin and white mask - Orientalism - A Tempest - Imaginary Homeland Prof. Ranganathan has deep understanding and knowledge about this theory, first of all he told us the background of the theory, because it is necessary to understand the context. In the very first chapter 'The Black skin White mask', he gives the information about the writer also. One significant sentence was, "our visualisation of nation is not fixed, it changes time by time." We have understood very well the concept of language, the difference between Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Aime Cesaire's 'A Tempest', the concept of Orientalism, and many other different concepts. In a way he has a mastery in this field.      ...

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University has celebrated the Aishwaryam youth festival of three days 26th, 27th, and 28th October. This whole festival of three days is hosted by Takshashila institute of commerce and Science collage. The whole university was spangling with lights. This festival is for young people. This is not only for watching. This festival let young generation show their talents through various competitions. In which they include every type of talents like writing, singing, dancing, drawing, acting, playing instruments and many things. It includes modern and folk both the theme. I was present in some of the events which here I am trying to look critically towards it. I attended One Act Play ' Sikka ni triji baju" :- I have seen three plays and only starting of last play. The participants have 30 minutes to perform their play. The plays which I have seen has names like “Sikka Ni Triji Baju” (Third side of the coin) which has theme of third gender...

15th, August 2018. on the occasion of The Independence Day in the Department Of English. we have a film screening of "Lagaan"(Tax) Ashutosh Gowariker , produced by Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan. we all know that coin have a two different sides so here we watched this film to understand another side of film. 1) Rural India : The whole setting of the movie remains in the village. Which represents the actual India. Where we finds agricultural activities as their chief source of livelihood. The dialect which people uses that also represents the countryside. But the situation of the people is not good. The another interpretation comes in our mind is that after having these kinds of problems yet they lives their lives happily. 2. Post-Colonialism: In the movie "Lagaan-once upon a time in India" Bhuvan accepts challenge by Russel just to cancel the double texation and learns to play cricket and also teaches cricket to other villagers and intention behind learning...

                  The beginning of second world war,W.H Auden poem September 1,1939.The great dictator Adolf Hitler and other great dictator Hynkel.both have conflict between two communities Jews and Aryans. this movie starts with war scenes and also political satire. whole movie political satire of figure  and speech of action. world war time Hitler ruled over all innocence people.                                                Hitler also ruled over Jewish and  Barber people.charlie display  dual roll in this movie.Nation is great but other people  suffering also a lot.this people suffer a amnesia (Psychologically trauma) short memory in 20th century.                   In the end of the movie ,we see one dictetor  give to very good...

           Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. In the very beginning of movie we find some lines are " modern times story of industry of individual enterprise, Humanity cruciding in the pursuit of happiness"                                 Charlie is a factory worker in this hectic age a minor cog in the grinding wheels of industry. His job mechanically tightening bolts on a moving belt.                              He then gets a job in a shipyard,but is fired for doing the wrong things at the wrong times. He resolves torefurn to the comfort and security of jail.                           ...

The poem begins with a simple set up, the first three lines introduce us to the maum characters. We have a nih white spider on a white flower, period to eat a white moth. But that's the crucial 'If' of the last time: if design does govern these small things. One of the most difficult poem design, an Italian sonnet by Robert Frost was published in 'A further Range' in 1936. Is the expression of the poet's mysterious existence of the world surrounded by omens and evil design. It's explorese the noyinn that nature and the whole universe is designed by a malevolent intelligence. It's based on the everyday observation of spider on a floeef holding up a dead moth but essentially the poem is playing around with theological argument. This poem of finding evil in innocence, a somg of experience though the voice is hardly that of Blake's child-like singers the joking fiscobery develops gradually through series of contradictory picture. 'A white he...

On 24th September, Our Heena Madam arranged the movie screening of 'Mourning becomes Electra', the play written by Eugene O'Neill. The film was directed by Dudley Nicholas. The film was helped in many ways to better understanding of the play. We are thankful to ma'am, for arranged the screening. The film was very faithful to the play we can find same kind of plot, or we say there was nothing changes from the play.  The play and the film has trilogy, 1 The Homecoming, 2 The Hunted, and 3 The Haunted When film begins Seth Beckwith, the gardener and trustworthy of Mennon family, he converses with the visitors, about Brigadier General Ezra Mennon's journey from judge to brigadier. Beckwith called him 'gossip monger', and we can find these kind of people in our surroundings also. After that Lavinia who was the daughter of Ezra Mennon and Christian Mennon, showed her mother with the cousin of her, Edam Brant. Her mother has extra marital affair wi...