Ajanta caves Sunday reading thinking activity

 

Hello readers, Today I am going to discuss about one intersting topic. So We all know that Studying any arts subject helps us to develop our critical thinking and it gives us the ability to interpret the world around us. This art also has its own meaning. This art can be a painting, poem, story, dance, song, advertisement, film etc. 

So many Art and Artists very famous in India. But one of the best artist of Khodidas Parmar. So he was famous painter and his name of so many building name. One of these art forms we had seen at the Khodidas Parmar Art Gallery held by Shree Khodidas Parmar Art Foundation, in Bhavnagar. This foundation organized an art exhibition about paintings of Ajanta Caves. On 26th September, 2021 we visited this art gallery. So let's discuss it. 

Khodidas Parmar :

Khodidas Parmar was a great presence as an artist and a greater gentleman that one does not relish it to talk about him in the past tense.

His is a decidedly low-key profile.The round head sports a closed cropped hair,bristling with a mix of black and silver,which tend to make his ear seem rather prominent.

About Ajanta Caves :

The Ajanta caves are engulfed in darkness. In fact, this lack of light is crucial to the experience at Ajanta; demanding the viewer’s time while intensifying a sense of the mysterious. There may have been dim artificial lighting created by oil lamps in the past. However, even today, the majority of the caves remain almost completely dark and without the help of artificial lighting, the caves remain in their original state.

The other interesting thing about these paintings is the use of colour. Most of the colours are natural colours. છાણ અને ઠીકરું વગેરે ઘસીને બનાવેલ કલરનો ઉપયોગ આ પેઇન્ટિંગમાં કરેલ છે. All these paintings are very interesting to study also. 

Here are some glimpses of that visit. 

       પદ્મપાણી:-

A painting in cave number 1 of Ajanta caves, this is Buddha’s former existence portrayed as a painting. Cave number 1 of Ajanta caves is known for some of the most elaborate carvings and scul inptures from the life of Gautam Buddha 

The Home and The World by Rabindranath Tagore

 The Home and The World by Rabindranath Tagore

The Home and the World is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set against the political and logistical nightmares of India’s 20th century caste system. Although the story focuses on the dynamic of a marriage—which shifts when a shadowy outsider enters the lives of the couple—much of the novel reads like a philosophical treatise. There are shifting viewpoints between the characters Bimala, Nikhil, and Sandip, and much of the book comprises their internal and external dialogues as they consider serious issues such as tradition, the roles of men and women in Indian culture, the nature of political change, the occasional need for violence in political activism, and other rhetorical exercises such as the weighing of the public good.

Q-1  To see the growth of individual character

The individual growth of the character is vital role of the Novel. Tagor mentione so many different angles in  character. Some point you find out. The major character of the Novel. He is one of the revolutionary Man. He has good command over the speech to attract any person would have been participated in his idea about against the western civilization.vWho is the pioneer of Rally which was in Bangal during the partition time. His revolutionary ideas makes effect on Bimala’s Character.

Q-2 Physiological growth of character:-

In this novel Tagor use of Physiology terms. So  this novel influence in character Physiology.  His movem fleshly feelings make him harbor delusions about his reli- seemin gion and impel him into a tyrannical attitude in his patri- sive nai otism. His nature is coarse, and so he glorifies his selfish more h lusts under high-sounding names". At one point he vivacio convinces Bimala to steal from her house and herhusband his mo for the "cause". Sandip's presence in the novel concludes believe with him flecing whike his speeches and ideas result communal riots. money. by the Bhaga of the Sandip's first name is translated to "with dipa (light fire flame)". According to the notes in the novel this is used to describe him as "in flaming, exciting, arousing". Sandip's last name "Babu" originated as an aristocratic titk that has come to describe Bengalis educated in the west or comparable settings. The British used "Babu" as a patro- Indian nising tem; its use as an honorific title survives in India his dut of the trates t for nati poem u Indepe yiekd in today. cause, clearly Nation.

Q-3 Rabindranath Tagore's art of characterization :

Tagore was a good writer and novelist and he was specially written in Bengali languag litrature. So his character is different identify. His characterization, though dependent on realistic psychological exploration, does not involve any existentialist choice, as it were, since he is content with lying bare such determinants as are capable of clarifying social relationship and responsibilities deriving from the character’s engagement with life. Tagore was not a committed experimentalist; but to deny him any formal expertise or to judge him solely on the basis of recent innovation in novelistic technique would be indeed far from it. The art of characterization in Tagore’s novels, suffer from a certain weakness of craftsmanship which results in a kind of diffuseness and looseness a ‘flabbiness’ of narrative. 

Here is the PPT prepared by My Group.

Thinking activity Digital Humanities

 

Hello friends, I am Kishan Jadav from department of English. And here discuss about Digital humanities.This task gives us a new sense to see how the world is actually. Ok friends, now we talk about today's topic…

1) Learning outcome of the edX MOOC on Introduction to Digital Humanities 

Introduction:

    First question is in our mind that What is Digital Humanities? and What is meaning of Digital Humanities? How is it helpful to us ? What's It Doing in English Departments? So let's find this answers and also talk about CLiC 's thematic activity.

What is Digital Humanities ? 

According to Wikipedia source,

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. 

The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing. 

What is the need of Digital Humanities ? 

The question that comes to our mind is, after all What is the importance and need of digital humanities ? So the digital humanities teaches us how to become Real Human being. That humanities sees that people will not become a Robot. 

Digital humanities have a connection with the English departments. These are the reasons given by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum to explain what DH is doing in English Departments. 

We see the simultaneous explosion of interest in e-reading and e-book devices like the Kindle, iPad, and Nook and the advent of large-scale text digitization projects, the most significant of course being Google Books.

The openness of English departments to cultural studies, where computers and other objects of digital material culture become the centerpiece of analysis. 

A modest but much-promoted belle-lettristic project around hypertext and other forms of electronic literature that continues to this day and is increasingly vibrant and diverse.

The widespread means to implement electronic archives.

After numeric input, text has been by far the most tractable datatype for computers to manipulate. Unlike images, audio, video, and so on, there is a long tradition of text-based data processing that was within the capabilities of even some of the earliest computer systems and that has for decades fed research in fields like stylistics, linguistics, and author attribution studies, all heavily associated with English departments.

There is the long association between computers and composition, almost as long and just as rich in its lineage.

The Harvard course is divided into 5 different chapters. So let's discuss whatever I have learnt from each of them. 

In the first chapter we cane see the introduction of the digital humanities and do some data and become poem activitie.

In the 2nd chapter we come to know about project tools and the questions they support. Project is Visualizing Broadway. These projects are very useful for academic purposes. 

In the 3rd chapter understand for meIt consists of topics like Data can be stored in a variety of different file types. Read on to learn about the major file types that you will encounter in Digital Humanities projects, along with the advantages and limitations of using each one. Specifically, we will cover plain text, CSV, Text, JSON, HTML, XML, Binary, MP3, and WAV file types. 

In the Chapter 4 is quite difficult. In this chapter I have learnt how to do commands. Also come across some of the interesting words like command language interpreter (CLI) character user interface (CUI)

Here are the name os some project:

China Biographical Database 

The Imperria Proejct

Neural Neighbors

 The Oxford Friars Project. 

Harvard Library Scanned Maps Project. 

Digital Giza 

Professor Racha Kirakosian discusses her medieval manuscript text editing project with one of her students, Eleanor Goerss.

Professor Kelly O'Neill describes her work called The Imperiia Project, a historical mapping and study of the Russian empire.

A library is often the first place, or among the first places, that you might turn to when looking for data and other sources that you want to incorporate into your research. Libraries face many new and exciting challenges today as they grapple with how to help researchers produce digital scholarship, and how they will store and disseminate that digital scholarship when it's finished. 

2) Complete at least one thematic activity from CLIC Activity book. Write your interpretation of the activity.

Now I would like to discuss CLiC activity. This is a very interesting activity for digital humanities. The full form of CLiC is Corpus Linguistics in Context. It was also a useful Activity to read the data. 

This CLiC activity gives us every little information also. Let's understand it through some examples :-

In this activity we have to look at the noun chin. We can find different ways in which the noun is used to describe fictional characters. To begin with, we can check how frequently chins appear in Dickens compared with other authors, or compared with general usage. You can also try !

Activity 9.1 Looking for chins in Dickens :-

1. Go to the CLiC Concordance tab (http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance).

2. Select DNov – Dickens’s Novels in the “Search the Corpora” box. DNov is a corpus of all of Dickens’s novels. 

3. In “Only in subsets”, make sure “All text” is selected. and select the subset “All text”. 

4. In ‘Search for terms”, enter chin. Hit Return. 

Here is what I got -

This will give you a set of concordance lines in which chin appears across Dickens’s works. 

Thinking activity in poem Deeno Dan

 Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, was known for reshaping the structural framework of Bengali literature and music. Rabindranath Tagore has been described as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter, yet words fail to capture the exact extent of his contributions to the Indian subcontinent. 

Deana Daan poem :-

Said the royal attendant, “Despite entreaties, king,

The finest hermit, best among men, refuses shelter

In your temple of gold, he is singing to god

Beneath a tree by the road. The devout surround him

In numbers large, their overflowing tears of joy

Rinse the dust off the earth. The temple, though,

Is all but deserted; just as bees abandon

The gilded honeypot when maddened by the fragrance

Of the flower to swiftly spread their wings

And fly to the petals unfurling in the bush

To quench their eager thirst, so too are people,

Sparing not a glance for the palace of gold,

Thronging to where a flower in a devout heart

Spreads heaven’s incense. On the bejewelled platform

The god sits alone in the empty temple.”

At this,

The fretful king dismounted from his throne to go

Where the hermit sat beneath the tree. Bowing, he said,

“My lord, why have you forsaken god’s mighty abode,

The royal construction of gold that pierces the sky,

To sing paeans to the divine here on the streets?’

“There is no god in that temple,” said the hermit.

Furious,

The king said, “No god! You speak like a godless man,

Hermit. A bejewelled idol on a bejewelled throne,

You say it’s empty?”

“Not empty, it holds royal arrogance,

You have consecrated yourself, not the god of the world.”

Frowning, said the king, “You say the temple I made

With twenty lakh gold coins, reaching to the sky,

That I dedicated to the deity after due rituals,

This impeccable edifice – it has no room for god!”

Said the tranquil hermit, “The year when the fires

Raged and rendered twenty thousand subjects

Homeless, destitute; when they came to your door

With futile pleas for help, and sheltered in the woods,

In caves, in the shade of trees, in dilapidated temples,

When you constructed your gold-encrusted building

With twenty lakh gold coins for a deity, god said,

‘My eternal home is lit with countless lamps

In the blue, infinite sky; its everlasting foundations

Are truth, peace, compassion, love. This feeble miser

Who could not give homes to his homeless subjects

Expects to give me one!’ At that moment god left

To join the poor in their shelter beneath the trees.

As hollow as the froth and foam in the deep wide ocean

Is your temple, just as bereft beneath the universe,

A bubble of gold and pride.”

1) The poem was written 120 years (approx.). Can you find any resemblance between the poem and the pandemic time?

In this poem related to present time. The title of the poem, which can be assumed to mean, 'Donating to the destitute,' has been making the rounds on social media since A On the same day, deaths from Covid-19 in India crossed the 40,000 mark, the fifth highest in the world, even as the country recorded its biggest single-day surge in fatalities at 918 on Wednesday, with the count crossing 900 for the first time.

2) Why do you think the King is angry with the Sage?

In poem to character are portrayed one is King and another is Sage, so King is angry with the sage because the sage doesn't accept the proposal of the king. King offered him a beautiful temple for living there and for worship. But the sage denied his offer by saying that God is not there in the temple, God has gone away with the poor people. There is no need for this beautiful temple if you can't help poor people who are your (King's) responsibility. The sage speaks truth and all we know that,

"Truth is always bitter !"

So that's why the king thought that the sage was insulting my decision. The sage hurts the ego of the king. This is why the king is angry with him. 

3) Why do you think the Sage refuses to enter the temple?

So in the poem the Sage refuses to enter the temple, Because he believes that there is no God in temple. He think that God is leave this gold temple and live in under the trees because their poor people live in under the trees.

So he denies that if no God in temple that whyt

 am I staying there and what i do there? 

4) Can there be any connection between the text of the poem and the verdict of Ayodhya Ram Mandir?

Mey be this poem connect with present time ,Yes we can find the connection between Ayodhya Mandir Nirman and this poem .In the poem, a saint reminds the king that he turned away from helping the suffering poor even as he built the temple at a cost of 2 million gold coins. In the course of the conversation, the saint reminds the king that the poor masses were left devastated without food or shelter in a recent drought. At the time, the king had turned them away when they sought help but he is now glad to spend his gold on the grand temple.The English translation of a 120-year-old poem by Nobel laureate and freedom fighter Rabindranath Tagore is going viral on social media, a day after the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. While the event, which was led by PM Narendra Modi, has been celebrated by many, several others have expressed their grief at what this means for the secular fabric of the country. So this connection we find between poem and Ayodhya Mandir.

Feminists criticism & Queer theory thinking activity

 Hello readers, 

   Today I am disscus about feminist criticism. So Feminist criticism, or gender studies, focuses on the role of women (or gender) in a literary text. According to feminist criticism, patriarchy, in its masculine-focused structure, socially dictates the norms for both men and women. Feminist criticism is useful for analyzing how gender itself is socially constructed for both men and women. Gender studies also considers how literature upholds or challenges those constructions, offering a unique way to approach literature.   

So what is feminism :-

According to Merriam-Webster, it’s “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” and “organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.

 Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unjustly within those societies. Efforts to change that include fighting against gender stereotypes and establishing educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women that are equal to those for men

Reel and the Real; Portrayal of Gay Men in Bollywood Films by Himadri Roy

Bollywood films have played a significant role in widening the discourse around gay rights in India

Hindustan Times | By Chintan Girish Modi

Smooch: Contrary to popular belief, this kiss is not the first ever expression of sexual intimacy between two gay men in a Hindi film.(Ayushmann Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan)

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Key Concerns of Feminism(M.H.Abrams)

1.The basic view is that Western civilization is pervasively patriarchal

2.It is widely held that while one’s sex as a man or woman is determined by anatomy, the prevailing concepts of gender

3. The further claim is that this patriarchal (or “masculinist,” or “androcentric”) ideology pervades those writings which have been traditionally considered great literature

4.gynocriticism—that is, a criticism which concerns itself with developing a specifically female framework for dealing with works written by women, in all aspects of their production, motivation, analysis, and interpretation, and in all literary forms, including journals and letters.

5.One concern of gynocritics is to identify distinctively feminine subject matters in literature written by women—the world of domesticity, for example, or the special experiences of gestation, giving birth, and nurturing, or mother-daughter and woman-woman relations—in which personal and affectional issues, and not external activism, are the primary interest. 

6.Another concern is to uncover in literary history a female tradition, incorporated in subcommunities of women writers who were aware of, emulated, and found support in earlier women writers, and who in turn provide models and emotional support to their own readers and successors. 

7.A third undertaking is to show that there is a distinctive feminine mode of experience, or “subjectivity,” in thinking, feeling, valuing, and perceiving oneself and the outer world. Related to this is the attempt (thus far, without much agreement about details) to specify the traits of a “woman’s language,” or distinctively feminine style of speech and writing, in sentence structure, types of relations between the elements of a discourse, and characteristic figures of speech and imagery. 

Seminal Writers and their works

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),

John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (1869), 

Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949)

 Mary Ellmann’s Thinking about Women (1968),

Judith Fetterley’s The Resisting Reader

 Patricia Meyer Spacks’ The Female Imagination (1975)

Ellen Moers’ Literary Women (1976),

 Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own:

British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1977); and

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic (1979;rev. 2000). 

Nina Baym’s Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820–1870 (1978); and Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (2009). 

Example :-

Stree (Hindi) | Dir. Amar Kaushik :

One of the most striking features of Stree is its comedic inversion of the fear of occupying public space, as men avoid going out at night for fear of a malevolent spirit that stalks and attacks unsuspecting male victims. They are also advised not to go out under the guise of safety and protection during the night, post 10PM. Starring Rajkumar Rao as Vicky in this horror- comedy, the film overtly tries to shift the feeling of claustrophobia, hostility and fear that comes from occupying space which is all too familiar to women, onto men, and this is a result of a spirit who seeks revenge for being disrespected.

The genre works well to convey its message of misogyny and gender based violence in an accessible, satirical manner and makes for a fitting addition to this list for its unapologetic inversion of everyday realities to expose the reality of living in a patriarchal society as a woman.

Queer theory -

Queer theory is often used to designate the combined area of gay and lesbian studies, together with the theoretical and critical writings about all modes of variance—such as cross-dressing, bisexuality, and transsexuality— from society’s normative model of sexual identity, orientation, and activities.

So you can say the, Queer theory is a term that emerged in the late 1980s for a body of criticism on issues of gender, sexuality, and subjectivity that came out of gay and lesbian scholarship in such fields as literary criticism, politics, sociology, and history. Queer theory rejects essentialism in favor of social construction; it breaks down binary oppositions such as “gay” or “straight”; while it follows those postmodernists who declared the death of the self, it simultaneously attempts to rehabilitate a subjectivity that allows for sexual and political agency. Some of the most significant authors associated with queer theory include Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Michael Warner, and Wayne Koestenbaum."

                      - From the Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, in Credo Reference

Seminal Writers and their works :-

 Judith Butler, in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), described the categories of gender and of sexuality as performative, in the sense that the features which a cultural discourse institutes as masculine or feminine, heterosexual or homosexual, the discourse also makes happen, by establishing an identity that the socialized individual assimilates and the patterns of behavior that he or she proceeds to enact.

“Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,” 1977, reprinted in Within the Circle: 

An Anthology of African-American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, ed. Angelyn Mitchell, 1994; and Ann Allen Stickley, “The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview,” in Conditions: Five Two, 1979.

Example:-

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga :

Rajkumar Rao and Sonam Kapoor play the lead in this one. As for the story, Rao falls in love with Kapoor who tells him about her sexual orientation and that she's in love with another girl. Rao, a struggling actor, then decides to help her unite with her love as she faces extreme opposition from her family and the society for her choice. The film is a light watch with multiple comic blasts and has an energising cast including Anil Kapoor. 

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Ecocriticism and Marxist Criticism thinking activity

 Hello readers,

Today I am going to discusse ecocriticism. In the simplest possible terms, ‘Eco Criticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment.’ It was proposed by the pioneer or the father of this theory in the USA, Cheryll Glotfelty. And I hope, even if this EcoCriticism or Green studies as a theory is not so popular, those who are curious in this field must be knowing it already. The study of nature as presented in the pieces of literature is what that has been the playground of the people concerned with this rather new movement in literary theories. As per the term Eco-Criticism, it only came into the major play after the attempts of Cheryll Glotfelty, right since the 1989 WLA (Western Literature Association) conference.

Key Concerns of Ecocriticism

reigning religions and philosophies of Western civilization are deeply anthropocentric

Prominent in ecocriticism is a critique of binaries such as man/nature or culture/nature, viewed as mutually exclusive oppositions. 

 Many ecocritics recommend, and themselves exemplify, the extension of “green reading” (that is, analysis of the implications of a text for environmental concerns and toward political action) to all literary genres, including prose fiction and poetry, and also to writings in the natural and social sciences. 

There is a growing interest in the animistic religions of so-called “primitive” cultures, as well as in Hindu, Buddhist, and other religions and civilizations that lack the Western opposition between humanity and nature, and do not assign to human beings dominion over the nonhuman world.

Example :-

Ecocritics believe that we also have to investigate the concept of nature itself. Societies frequently view their own hierarchies and codes of conduct as natural, rather than as artificial and man-made. Literary texts can help us realize how human beings use nature for their own ends.

A great example of an ecocritical reading of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is Scott Hess’s article “John Clare, William Wordsworth, and the (Un)Framing of Nature.”

Hess argues that Wordsworth treats the daffodils like a photo on a postcard. Wordsworth doesn’t involve himself in nature. Instead, he looks at nature from afar (like a cloud), and leaves as soon as he has had his fill. In other words, Wordsworth acts like the tourist who comes by once and snaps a quick picture before moving on. In the end, Wordsworth seems more concerned about his own feelings than about nature:

Marxism in Simple Terms :

If you live in America, you know how it works under a capitalist system, meaning there are different socioeconomic classes. You may hear these classes called upper, middle, and lower class. However, you might also hear words like blue-collar worker, working poor, white-collar worker, etc. All these different terms define where someone stands on their society’s socioeconomic ladder. Some classes struggle, while others rule the corporate world.

To analyze and remove this struggle, Marxism came into play. To define Marxism in simple terms, it’s a political and economic theory where a society has no classes. Every person within the society works for a common good, and class struggle is theoretically gone. Sounds simple right? Not so much. Actually, many horror movies and dystopian books are written based on trying to create a classless, utopian society. Now that you know what Marxism is, explore where this theory came from.

According to Marxists, and to other scholars in fact, literature reflects those social institutions out of which it emerges and is itself a social institution with a particular ideological function. Literature reflects class struggle and materialism: think how often the quest for wealth traditionally defines characters. So Marxists generally view literature "not as works created in accordance with timeless artistic criteria, but as 'products' of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era" (Abrams 149).

Marxism is derived from the great philosopher Karl Marx. Marxist criticism, in its diverse forms, grounds its theory and practice on the economic and cultural theory of Karl Marx (1818–83) and his fellow-thinker Friedrich Engels (1820–95), and especially on the following claims: 

1. In the Marxist literary analysis, the evolving history of humankind, of its social groupings and interrelations, of its institutions, and of its ways of thinking are largely determined by the changing mode of its “material production”— that is, of its overall economic organization for producing and distributing material goods. 

2. Changes in the fundamental mode of material production effect changes in the class structure of a society, establishing in each era dominant and subordinate classes that engage in a struggle for economic, political, and social advantage. 

3. Human consciousness is constituted by an ideology—that is, the beliefs, values, and ways of thinking and feeling through which human beings perceive, and by recourse to which they explain, what they take to be reality. An ideology is, in complex ways, the product of the position and interests of a particular class. In any historical era, the dominant ideology embodies, and serves to legitimize and perpetuate, the interests of the dominant economic and social class. 

Example :-

Marxist Perspectives in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

This essay focuses on analysing Heart of Darkness from two different critical approaches, mainly a Marxist approach developed through the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as well as a feminist approach and sets out to discover both strengths and limitations for each approach. Marxist critics view “literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate”. This means that Marxist critics look not only at the “sociology of literature , but also take interest in how novels get published, and whether they mention the working class”.Marxist literary criticism looks at literary works from the social institutions in which they originate. Theorists of Marxism believe that ‘even literature stems from a specific ideological function, which is primarily based on the background and ideas of the author’, in this case Joseph Conrad. 

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Thinking activity an astrologer

Hello readers, I am Kishan Jadav and a student of MK Bhavnagar University. In this blog I am going to discuss some of the interesting questions about 'An Astrologer's Day' As we all know, ‘An Astrologer’s Day’ is a very fascinating short story.

R. K. Narayan was born on 10 October 1906 and passed away in 2001. In his long career he published fourteen novels, over two hundred short stories, a memoir, two travel books, innumerable essays, and two plays. His first novel was Swami and Friends (1935).

Among the best-received of Narayan’s 34 novels are The English Teacher (1945), Waiting for the Mahatma (1955), The Guide (1958), The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961), The Vendor of Sweets (1967), and A Tiger for Malgudi (1983). Narayan also wrote a number of short stories; collections include Lawley Road (1956), A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories (1970), Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (1985), and The Grandmother’s Tale (1993). In addition to works of nonfiction (chiefly memoirs), he also published shortened modern prose versions of two Indian epics, The Ramayana (1972) and The Mahabharata (1978)

.Here , I put the movie adaptation video ;

1] we faithful is the movie to the original short story?

In the story and the film adaptation, we can see that there is so much correspondence between a story and adaptation. In both are plot is going the same way as it is in the story. Both are match many things. And represent the some situations of the original story. But original story and film adaptation, Just two scenes are there which are not in the original test. One is the astrologer’s wife at the initial part and his reveal of his crime through the story of money. 

2] ]After watching the movie, have your perception about the short story, characters or situations changed?

 In this question is very complicated because all sence are important, all situations is important, characters are important, but My Answer is yes that after watching the movie, my perception about the short story is change and the last part of the movie is fearful. Because this Film adaptation is very high level of fear. One person to another person kill. So from the starting, we were thinking that it is a story about Astrologer who is getting from people by telling about their personal life or by solving their problem but at the end we knew that he has killed the landlord and came to the city. It's a terrible situation where we don't know who are our friends and who are enemies because all are praying for him as a god.

3] Do you feel ‘aesthetic delight’ while watching the movie? If yes, exactly when did it happen? If no, can you explain with reasons?

yes, I saw one big tree in the film adaptation.. Those under the tree play children, prayer one woman, one astrologer, and balloon's salesman . so this is the seen of recall one village symbol. All things are represente feel the aesthetic delight. So when film is open one big tree, you can swa this all things are represente of naturally.

4] Does screening of movie help you in better understanding of the short story?

Yes, By watching the film screening it stucks into our mind that how all the thing happening in the story works and it also denotes that how each ane every small thing can make huge change.Ee get to know that it arouses curiosity as something might have taken place on a particular day. The title is very interesting and creates curiosity in the mind of the readers. The writer extended the word with a particular purpose as it was used by Churchill.'Everyone has his day'.

5] Was there any particular scene or moment in the story that you think was perfect?

According to me , the communication scene between an astrologer and Guru Nayak is as appropriate as in the story. The last ending of the story was perfect moment in the story .

 6 ] If you are director, what changes would you like to make in the remaking of the movie based on the short story “An Astrologer’s Day” by R.K.Narayan.

Yes, i would like to change some things, some incidents, attitudes of some characters like Guru nayak blindly trusts on an astrologer. It should not be like that only. He should not trust him blindly. He should think about it at his own.