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When we were studying the play waiting for Godot at that time we also see the play titled as Breath. We came across this play because that also comes under the Theater of Absurd. To give complete understanding of theater of Absurd our sir has take the example of this play. The word Absurd means the meaningless. In philosophy its talks talks about the lacking any meaning that gives purpose of life. The Theater of Absurd   is post world war two designation for particular play of absurdist fiction. This idea comes in late 1950s. This idea began with existentialist  philosopher Albert Camus's assessment in his essay " The Myth Of Sisyphus" ( 1942 ) that the human situation is essentially Absurd, devoid of purpose. Though no formal Absurdist movement existed as such, dramatist as divers as Samuel Becket, Eugene lonesco, Jean Genet, Artur Adamov, Herold Pinter and few other. They share the pessimistic vision of humanity struggling vainly to find a purpose and to control it...

Here in this blog I will talk about the texts which are in our Syllabus. But before explaining or giving summery of this text first let me talk about the idea of postcolonial studies. This all units are explained us by prof. Balaji who is from central university of Gujarat. Basic understanding of Postcolonial  Studies :  When one Postcolonial Studies the basic understanding is that the literature which is written after the Colonialism and which talk about the the cruelty done by that power is postcolonial studies. Till the time I have not studied this I have also this limited idea. But letter on our sir has explain the broader idea of postcolonial studies. The Peter Berry explain that postcolonial is critic and question the thing colonies tell about us, there Interpretation about us. Whenever universal significance is claimed for a work then white euro centric norms and practice are being promoted by a silent of hand to this elevated status and all other  corre...

When we talk about teaching of language or any other think we must know that how or with which kind of method students learn. If we talk about perticular English language then we found there are several methods which help students to learn that language. Methods like, Grammer translation method. The direct method. Audio lingual method. Total physical response method. Suggestopedia method. Silent way of teaching. Here I am answering some questions which are part of ELT task. 1.  Which method appealed you the most? If we talk about the method then first we must see that whom we are teaching.  Teaching method are always must appropriate to the students rather than teacher. According to me if the students are from primery level then Total physical response because in this students can have fun and learn. If we are dealing with the students of high school then according to me Direct  method is appreciated because because when they went to higher educati...

Girish Karnad was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. He was died this year.  When we talk about Girish Karnad We found that he has lived very controversial life. His statement sometimes become so controversial. When we see this, the statement of Harold Pinter in his Nobel speech (2005) looks very appreciate. "There are no hard distinction between what is real and what is unreal nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both." As writer we found one thing is true but as citizen the same thing must be wrong. It is our duty to found the truth. Here in this blog I try to look up to some write-ups written as obituary on the demise of Girish karnad when he passed away on 10th June 2019. When we talk about Girish karnad We see that he was famous for his literary contribution but in part of his p...

Vinod Joshi is postmodern Gujarati poet, writer and critic. He wrote geet, sonnet and long narrative poems. His latest work is sairandhri. If one wants to read this one first must know about who actually she was. This name sairandhri has mythical context with Indian myth Mahabharata. Sairandhri is a name of Draupadi during her 'agnatvas'. Very few people know her by this name because she was more famous as Draupadi, panchali, Yagnsani, Krushna. According to Mahabharata after Drut and chirharan prasang pandav got the punishment of  12 years of vanvas and 1 year of agnatvas. During this year they lives in king Virat's place. Here Draupadi took the name of Sairandhri and leaves as dasi. In this book Vinod Joshi took the name of Draupadi' s agnatvas and wrote about her. The person who born to become Samrangi ( queen) of Hastinapur but become dasi of other queen. Person who lost her identity. Woman who divided between brothers. Poet not only talks about th...

This blog is part of my pre task on Edgar Allan poe's story. He was famous for his short story. Edgar Allan Poe   was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.   In this blog I try to answer the question asked by Dr. Jay Mehta. Who will going teach us this story of Poe. 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!   In this task sir has gave us two story first is માનસંધ ( Mansang ) by Dr. Jaynt khatri.   And second story is for listing; પાનકોર ડોશી ( pankor doshi ) by zaverchand Meghani.  In the both The story we found that form The very bugging we see that the both the story starts with the night.  In the first story author clearly say that it is very dark night. In the second story poetry talks about the night which...

When we talk about the literature one of the best way to learn it is movies. Because movies are not just for entertainment but we see that it also best preserver of time and history. Movie shows us that what type of practice are there is society when they released. The movie which are made from any written work of Literature allow that work to reach to more people. Because the people who are illiterate as well as don't like to read much they can come to know that thing from Movie.  Here we see that the movie Midnight's children is made from Salman Rashdi's book Midnight's children. And the Movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist is shows us the practice of the time as well as the mindset of particular people who lives in that region. 1. Midnight's children :  The Movie is a Canadian- British adaptation of the Novel  The Midnight's children written by the Salman Rashdi As I mention that the movie is adaptation of Novel so let me first give some basic ...

Shashi Tharoor    is an Indian politician, writer and a former career international diplomat   who is currently serving as  Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from  Thiruvananthapuram ,  kerala , since 2009.  Book : An Era of Darkness  The full title of the book is An Era of Darkness: The British Empire In India. If we talk about how idea of the book and book it self come to exitance  it has own story. Actually Tharoor went to Oxford Union in 2015 and take part in debate. The topic on which he gave speech is "Does Britian owe reparations to it's on former colonies?" The speech went viral. Subsequently his publisher. Flores the idea to transform speech into book. So, in this way the book An Era of Darkness comes.  The book is results of speech which has given in Oxford Union. So let me first identify some of the key points from speech.  The very first thing he talks about the economic condition of colonies was actuall...

Edward said is a professor at Columbia University. He is author of book orientalism. First what is orientalism? So   In  art history ,  literature  and  cultural studies ,  Orientalism  is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the  Eastern world . These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West.  Here in this blog I will talk about the Edward Said's view on Orientalism. To write his views I will take help of one of his interview.  Information about Interview :  Executive producer & Director : Sit Jhally Producer &  Editor : Sanjay Talreja Introduced by Sut Jhally University of Massachusetts-Amherst Video recording of interview :  View of Edward Said :  We can divide interview in parts by information which is provided in interview.  1. Introduction 2. The Repertory of orientalism 3. Orientalism & Empire 4. American Orientalism 5. Or...