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A poem by Sahir Ludhianvi

आप, आप क्या जाने मुझको समझते है क्या मै तो कुछ भी नही | इस कदर प्यार इतनी बड़ी भीड़ का मै रखूँगा कहाँ इस कदर प्यार रखने के काबिल नही मेरा दिल, मेरी जान मुझको इतनी मुहब्बत ना दो दोस्तों, मुझको इतनी मुहब्बत ना दो दोस्तों सोच लो दोस्तों इस कदर प्यार कैसे संभालूँगा मैं मै तो कुछ भी नही | प्यार, प्यार एक शख्श का भी अगर मिल सके तो बड़ी चीज़ है जिन्दगी के लिए आदमी को मगर ये भी मिलता नही ये भी मिलता नही, मुझको इतनी मुहब्बत मिली आपसे ये मेरा हक नही मेरी तकदीर है मैं ज़माने की नज़रो में कुछ भी ना था मेरी आँखों में अब तक वो तस्वीर है उस मुहब्बत के बदले मै क्या नज़र दूँ मै तो कुछ भी नही | इज्ज़ते, शोहरते, चाहतें, उल्फतें , कोई भी चीज़ दुनिया में रहती नही आज मै हूँ जहाँ, कल कोई और था ये भी एक दौर है, वो भी एक दौर था आज इतनी मुहब्बत ना दो दोस्तों कि मेरे कल के खातिर कुछ भी ना रहे आज का प्यार थोडा बचा कर रखो थोडा बचा कर रखो मेरे कल के लिए कल कल जो गुमनाम है कल जो सुनसान है कल जो अनजान है कल जो वीरान है मै तो कुछ भी नही |  (This is original poem by Sahir Ludhianvi

Change

And then suddenly you realized that you have been drastically changed. What you were and what you are now, are two different persons. And some times it may happens that after realizing the change you may not like what you are now. And a point comes when you feel that you were better than now, and even wish to be what you were but now it's late, but remeber it's never too late. A person can not be same for a life time, People(everything in nature) change with the time, they may not be that much changed by appearance but by mind they would have changed radically. "We do change with the time"-everything except for change in the world changes. But wait, if the same thing is happening with you than it is OK no need to worry-but need to be careful. It's not only you and me feeling the same., but generally people feel, like they were better than present. Many of the poetry written on the same subject and theme- the poet or poetess wants to go back to his or her childho

For the aspirants of UGC/ NET/SET

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After an absence of short period of time one more time my blog has called me. Actually, this time I have came to it, yeah! It remains silent for much of the time. But it always waits for me whether I care or not, it never said no to me. And this is the most beautiful thing regarding my blog. It provide me place to write, it gives me freedom to write whatever I wish without any kind of excuse or argument. It never says no. This time it is for the aspirants of GSET(State Eligibility Test) and NET(National Eligibility Test). An exam which certifies one for the post of Assistant Professor(A highly respected job)in government colleges. According to the rules of UGC(University Grants Commission) NET or SET is minimum qualification to be an assistant professor. And for that NET exam is conducted at national level twice a year by CBSE( www.cbsenet.nic.in ) and SET (for Gujarat GSET  www.gujaratset.ac.in ) is conducted by respective state, time of GSET exam is not fixed but they arrange

Of writing

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Why the worlds most of knowledge begins with Plato or Aristotle? Is it because they were super human being most knowledgeable persons until now, or is it because we have history which starts from these two intellectuals. My answer to this question is related to third part of these answers above mentioned. Yeah of course it is because our history or let me be precise our documented histories starts from Plato, not only in matter of the history but in other fields of knowledge too. As he is called the father of philosophy right but what if he would have not documented that philosophy- human memory is very short we forget things in very short time- he is still remembered its only because he has documented his philosophy and his knowledge regarding things and its nature. No doubt they were prodigy in these fields but they would have been forgetted if they were/are not written anywhere. Writing is not just an activity to learn the language only, but it is the process to immortalize yo

MADARi movie review

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After long time there has been an urge to write something, to check out that it is still alive in me, after reading so much literary history and criticism I'm fed up of reading now it's time to scrutinize what have you learned. Words are bubling in the hemisphere, they are racing with each other to come out, through the veins, to the tip of my fingers and wanted to be black and white at somewhere. In this write up I'm going to talk about recently released Bollywood movie MDARI-2016.  This movie will inspire you to think, it will melt the frozen part within you, and for politicians this movie is trial. Madaari (English: Puppeteer) is a 2016 Indiansocial -thriller film directed by Nishikant Kamat . It is produced by Shailesh Singh, Madan Paliwal, Sutapa Sikdar, and Shailja Kejriwal. The film stars Irrfan Khan, Vishesh Bansal, Jimmy Shergill , Tushar Dalvi and Nitesh Pandey and was released on 22 July 2016.(Wikipedia) Though it is not liked by much of the audience

What is literature ?

Literature has always been there with human race, since from the very early stage of human race. Literature is not the thing which had came only after the invention of writing technology and human habit of recording. In its childhood literature was full of fantasy and imagination of abstract ideas and experiences.in this stage literature was basically in oral form. It was not like Hegel's concept about history "that what is written only that can be called literature". It is very nerrow way of looking at literature. Thus one has to bore in mind that literature not always written thing. The history of literature is the history of human race and its development. As the human race developed from stage to stage, so the literature.  As human race has gone through several stages of developments in the same way literature has also gone through several stages of developments. And these developments turns out as the genre of literature, and in each stage it has develope

How does literature form me ?

Life itself is like a train which has been started its journey from certain station, and destined to reach the last station- the final destination. These two stations are conformed which can not be denied. But in between these two stations there comes lots of other stations, it stops for a while and then again move on. In this train before five years I have aboard from the station called literature and now the next station of this train- called life is soon going to come. But before it come let me look back to my experience of this journey, how it was ?, what I have learned from this journey? What kind of changes it has bring? Let me confess " studying English literature was not my choice but only option for better career," but it is truth I learned from life and from literature that what you like today you may not like sometime after, the same thing happened with me as the time passes I started to like literature. Let me begin with my early collage days because

Swamp Dwellers by Wole Soyinka

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The swamp dwellers is a play written by Nigerian play wright sole Soyinka. The subject of the play is the contemporary picture of Nigeria. The story of the play is breaking of the family as effect of colonialism in Nigeria in the early twentieth century. Makuri is father in in the family an elder person. ALU is mother in the family. This couple has two sons respectively Auchike and Igwazu.   The nature and personality of both son are contrasting. Igwazu has respect for the tradition, his parents, and his village. Auchike has no care about his parents, he is self-centered person. Igwazu lives with his parents in village where as Auchike living far from parents In some city since last ten years and has not send a single letter or money to his parents neither he visited the city in these ten years. When the play opens six month has been passed since Igwazu with his wife Desala gone to city And he is going g to come home today. Igwazu gone to city with hope of earning more money as the

Points to think over The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

1 What is the meaning of phrase ‘Blood Money’ in Veronica’s reply email? Most of the secrets in the novel are revealed in the end part of the novel. Including the old retarded fellow, the meaning of the letter, and the significance of Adrian’s page of diary. All the confusion created during the narration are solved at the end except for the phrase “Blood Money.” As we know after reading the novel that Sarah Ford the mother of Veronica has left 500 pound and other documents. Veronica calls that 500 pounds blood money. Generally we use the phrase blood money for the money which is earned by mischief, or by committing some kind of crime. This phrase is most disturbing to the narrator Tony Webster. Many times he tried to understand why Veronica calls it blood money? but he never get the answer. As now we know the fact that there was a relation between Adrian and Sarah, and as it was mentioned in the letter sent by Sarah to Tony that Adrian was happy during his last days; obvi

Digital Humanities

Digital humanities, also known as digital computing is a field of study research , teaching and invention concerned with the interaction of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is the methodological by nature and interdisciplinary In scope it involves investigation analysis, synthesis and presentation in electronic form. It study how these media affects the disciplines which they are used. And what the disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing. It is also the networks of people who have been working together sharing research arguing , competing and collaborating for many years. It founds its origin from the conversation with Andrew McNeillie. A. there is long data text based processing, and so the research in the fields like stylistics, linguistics and authors contribution studying, all heavily associated with English department. B.Second is that it has long association between computers and composition C. Hypertext and other form of lit

Brief views about Preface to Lyrical Ballads- William Wordsworth

Basic ideas of Wordsworth, in his ‘The Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ The main difference between classicism and romanticism are as below: Indian the time of romanticism the poets were free to think and imagine, and free to express whatever the feel. Whereas Indian the classicism the function of the poetry is to provide knowledge and the driving force behind their creation is intellect. So we can say that In the time of classicism the poets were restricted, they were not allowed to think, or to imagine and to express what they feel. Classics were imitating or present city life, and they follow Greek and Roman tradition. Whereas romantics were imitating the rustic life and they idealize the nature. Here Wordsworth does not ask who is poet, because it does not matter to him cause he did not want to concern the man who he is, and it’s not important to him. Because what matters to him is the quality and the skill what makes him poet The word diction means the effectiveness and the degre

Archetypes of Literature by Northrop Frye

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In literary criticism the term Archetype is used to show the recurrent narratives, designs, pattern of action, character types, themes and images which can be seen in wide variety of other literary works as well as in myths, dreams and even social rituals. And after much time reoccurred in works they become universal forms of pattern and symbols. And thus when the attentive reader read it, he finds that pattern. The archetypal critic tries to find this pattern, symbols and myths in present literary works. In this Fry is trying to prove that literature can be study systematically, and criticism can be the organized body of knowledge.  As physics as a branch of knowledge learns Nature, but only partially, and not in totality. The same thing is criticism do with the literature and art. It learns literature but not the really literature itself, means it also like the physics learn partially. So criticism also can be called science, and it tries to learn literature systematical

My views regarding the “The Birthday Party” by Harold Pinter

1. The two scene of the Lulu from the play is omitted in the film. We often contradict with what we have said in past and what we realize at present. May be this is the reason why Harold Pinter has removed those two scene while writing a script for the movie.  The second thing is that a writer will always try to make his work perfect in the film version of the play he might find it unnecessary thus he removed it. These scenes were not of importance because though these scenes were removed in the movie it doesn’t make any difference in its effect.  2.  It has been said that technology always provides better things than it was. The same is the result with the play Birthday Party.  In reading you may not feel the same kind of menace and fear, the fear of unknown dangers. But while watching movie the menace remain there on the screen as well as in the mind of the audience. As simply reading will not provide the same kind of the effect, the movie is successful in making of the menace, we

My views on Deconstruction theory

The deconstruction is the theory/practice of reading which questions and claims to subvert or undermine the assumption that the system of language provides grounds that adequate to establish the boundaries, the coherence or unity, and the determinate meanings of the literary text. It is a new way of reading text, it goes beyond the traditional way of reading texts. What he says that text has in itself has some elements that deconstruct the structure of that text. It differs from structuralist view, that meaning lies within the text. Deconstructionist says that the work is made of words and words have no definite meaning. It is the reader who creates meaning, word can’t give meaning.  In his essay Structure sign and play he gives terms like Decentering the center:-  Derrida deconstructs the metaphysics of presence. There is nothing like truth apart from language. He tries to prove that the structurality of the structure does not indicate the presence, its free play of sig