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Interpretation Challenge play Breath by Samuel Beckett  Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both English and French. Thinking activity according to this link https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2014/09/interpretation-challenge-breath.html 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 is thirty-two seconds one play. But here video created various way. My review on the video of the play- 1) Brea...

Thinking Activities according to this link https://jaynmehta.blogspot.com/ On 16th August to 19th August we have guest lecture for Edger Allan Poe short story explain by Dr.Jay Mehtasir. This are the five short story:- 1) The Fall of House 2) The Purloined Letter 3) The Gold Bug 4) The Tell Tale Heart 5) The Cask of Amontillado 01) Make a comparative study of 'The Tell-tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat'. ‘The Tell tale Heart’ is kind of self conference story while also self conference story. Both story narrative style is different because we can not decide who is ‘The Tell tale Heart' story narrator. In this story, the narrator is ‘I' so how can we decided who is narrate he or she. This is a story of a servant killed his Ower because of his ower queer eye. While 'The Black cat' story related to one person killed the cat because of his ego hurt then he killed his wife also. Both story crime reason one hatred eye. One is person eye...

Reflective blog – Teaching of Professor Balaji Ranganathan (Date- 19-21 August 2019) We have guest lectures for Postcolonial studies by Balaji Ranganathan. This session is fruitful for us. And I would like to special thanks to our professor Dilip Barad who introduced most of the units before the guest lectures. Balaji sir had also well explained this hard paper teaching us easy way. We have post-colonial studies paper. In this paper such interesting units – 1) Black skin white mask 2) Imaginary Homelands 3) Orientalism 4) A Tempest In the first lecture Balajisir introduced post-colonial studies then sir said main ideas of first unit Black skin white mask by Frantz Fanon. This unit divided in seven chapters – 1) The Negro and language 2) The woman of colour and white man 3) The man of colour and white woman 4) The So-called dependency complex of the colonized 5) The lived experience of the black man 6) The Black man and psychology 7) ...

Methods of English language teaching For doing anything methods are most valuable role full fill for lerner. There are teaching methods                                                                                        1) Grammar translation method- This oldest and traditional method of teaching. Particularly in India, this method is used as English is taught as a second language. 2) The Direct method Learning the second language without the help of other languages. 3) The Audio Lingual method This method used to improve communicative competence in learner. This method based on linguistic theory and behavioral psychology. 4) Total physical Response method This method is based on learning through physical activities. 5) Sugg...

The Artist, the Citizens and the questions  Click here Girish Raghunath Karnad, the Karnataka film actor, director, writer, and playwright died 10 June 2019 at the age of 81 due to multiple organ failure. After his death so many controversy happen but not more shown by journalist and which we know controversy that may be real or some fact also. Because we are living in post truth area so we have difficult to justify what is truth and what is false. Here I want mentioned one quotes – “There is no truth there is only perception.” After Girish Karnad death most of journalist or social media show his favorable view. And also few journalist given  controversial obituaries. Karnad was great critic and always criticized other Indian writer like he didn’t like Rabindranath Tagore drama so he easily said as critic Tagore’s drama like boring. One of the famous Journalist Shri Sandeep Balakrishna in his article published in Dharmadispach. Sandeep characterizes Gir...

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe us most famous an American writer. He was writer as well as critic . Most of he famous for his poetry and short story. He used mysterism in his story. He was one of writer whose income depend on his writing even he managed everything. His story create different kind of interest on reading so I am curiously waiting for this unit. PRE-THINKING TASK is:- 1. Read the first Gujarati story and listen to the audio recitation of the second story. Observe how the two wordsmiths work wonders through words! (Absolute obsession of alliteration Mansangh short story by Jayant Khatri and Pankor Doshi by Zaverchand Meghani both story are really interested. And use of language pure native Gujarati, it called valgar or Varnacular language. I observe Mansangh story two wordsmith work wonders through words like  એક તો એ અંધારી રાત હતી'.  નીરસનીજૅન વાતાવરણ Here story started at dark night we can say that author create fearful soundings for reader. Sec...

Post-colonial studies on movie- Midnight's Children and Reluctant Fundamentalist Midnight's Children is a 2012 Canadian-British film basedon Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel of the same name. Midnight's Children film directed by Deepa Mehta. It was the one of the success movie at that time.        It is story of Saleem Sinai, he is protagonist character in the movie. Saleem Sinai tell his life story to Padma. In the movie we can see that Saleem life journey and also he mentioned his mother life journey as like he started his story settings at Kashmir with his grandfather. How his grandfather as Doctor and he loved his patient and married with his patient. Then story move on in Agra. Then his mother story started his mother first marriage with Nadir Khan then second marriage with his father Ahmed Sinai. Again settings it is changed Ahmed is business he moved away with his wife Amina to Mumbai. In the Mumbai they meet William Methon, he is Britisher. His physical r...

Then and Now Colonialism, Imperialism and Post Colonialism What is Colonialism ? According to Oxford dictionary- Colonial word comes from the Roman ‘colonia’ which meant ‘farm’ or ‘settlement’, and referred to Romans who settled in other lands but still retained their citizenship. Pitterbarry mentioned this words- What is ADOPT, ADAPT and ADEPT ADOPT:   Write upon Western Writers. ADAPT:  To get Mastery upon anything. ADEPT:  Write upon Indian. Ania Loomba- Ania Loomba is an Indian literary scholar. She is the author of Colonialism/Postcolonialism and works as a literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Loomba researches and teaches English literature and early modern culture, postcolonialism, the history of colonialism and postcolonialism in South Asia, as well as postcolonial literature and culture. Ania Loomba mentioned the OED describes it as: “a settlement in a new country … a body of people who settle in a new loc...

Edward Said on Orientalism This task according to this link -  Click Here Introduction- Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said ,he was was a professor of literature at  Columbia University a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of post colonial study. His famous post- colonial book is Orientalism. In this book he discusses what is Orientalism and defined the West and the East because most of people have assumed against some of countries so he tried to reveal that assume that present reality for countries. His more focused on post colonial country. Because he believed Britisher colonialism is responsible for most of participantion of most of Empire.   What is Orientalism ? Orientatlism by Edward said is a conical text of culture studies in which he has challenged the concept of Orientalism or the difference between East and West. For example the Arabs are defined as uncivilized people and Isam is seen as religious of the terroris...

Thinking activity according to this link  Click Here Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, writer and a former career international diplomat. His speech video:- Speech at Oxford Union: Looking Back at the British Raj in India: The University of Edinburgh Exclusive Interview By Karan Thapar On His Book 'An Era Of Darkness' He debates as post colonial critic and he is give evidence of British ruler what they  done unfair with India. And he also mentioned which type British exploited Indian's people. Like • How Britisher destroyed Indian's handwork business which is well known before their ruling and Industrial revolution through Indian people became Out of work. (unemployment). • Before British ruler India belong to wealthy country but during their ruling India became poor and poor. Because they carry high level tax from middle class people that why rich became more rich and poor became more poor that kind economic conditions it became completely c...