Functions of mass communication.ppt

 

Functions of mass communication from SanjayJogadiya

Character analysis waiting for the barbarians.ppt

 

Character analysis waiting for the barbarians from SanjayJogadiya

The white tiger.ppt

 

The white tiger from SanjayJogadiya

THinking Activity: The Sense of an Ending

 

1.  How do you understand memory and history with reference to your reading of this novel.

Ans :

The novel speakes of the memory and history which has different parameters. The novel constructes aspects about the memory. We keep our memories but we can not rely on that. We constructes our memories through our perspective. Memory records about what happened, perhaps it is not recorded as it is. The first part is about 'imperfection of memory'. As Adrian refers "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentations." We can say great history to personal memory. Inadequacies of documents can't makes the certain history. As in the novel Tony remembers imperfect memory in which he can not thinks of his deeds. History and memory both are very much connected because history is the part of our memories. Tony’s own tale of his student days is quite unreliable.

2. How do you understand the concept of suicide with reference to your reading of literature ranging from Renaissance play Hamlet, 20th cen Existentialist philosophy and this 21st cen novel The Sense of an Ending?

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First novelistic suicide pattern merged in nineteenth century. Authors like Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf include theme of suicide in their writing.In Shakespeare' s Hamlet Ophelia committed suicide by some particular reason. But Hamlet was mentally upset man though he doesn't think to like this.

If we see suicide in 20th century Existentialist philosophy,then we can recall first Waiting for Godot. It is based on Existentialism and Vladimir and Estragon wants to committed suicide but they can't do it. They have not any responsibility in life though they don't do that. They have nothing to live life but they can't die also. If we see it as philosophical way that it means is when people are not able to maintain meaning that they are most psychotically vulnerable.By the reading of The Sense of An Ending, there are two people commit suicide,Robson and Adrian. Both have different reason but why Adrian committed suicide is not clearly visible. Robson escape from his responsibilities and choose to die. He has fear about lost of his morality and how society will treat him after knowing the reason.But Tony Webster has not done this all things though he was the reason of damage of someone's life. While character like Adrian who think that they have enjoy the life so now the time is coming to die and he committed suicide.

Sahitya Akademy Awardee Poet Arundhati Subramaniam: Where God is a Traveller

 

In this Poem when God travels often focuses on the minute details of everyday life, but also sees in those details, the hints of Godhead, an Uber-reality. When I asked the poet, "If I were to call you the Mira of the modern age, would I be an ignorant follower of Prapancha Krishna?" He laughed, not annoyed, but pointed out that his poems also mention Shiva, Kartikeya, and others. Muruga, Krishna, and other divinities appear to be enchanting incarnations, made up of elements of our contemporary reality and sometimes denied by him. This is also evident in middle age. In 'Efigrams for Life After Life', Arundhati Subramaniam clearly describes that, when life suddenly turns, we will learn to find profit in our losses.

 

This is a theme that has nothing to do with Mira: How to lose the kingdom of the earth but regain the (divine) self. As Subramaniam puts it, "Bhakti (devotion) is the spirit of these poems - away from an enthusiastic, functional or intellectual antithesis of devotion. I think we have often turned devotion into an animus animal." This devotion in his poems also reflects the transition of his life since I came in contact with him in the 1990s. "Previously I thought my public personality would be about the 'arts', and my private self would be about 'spirituality.' Many different splits exploded, and the poems in this volume show it. But what about the second part: between the poet and the reader? "Some will see you as highly intellectual. How accessible do you think your poems are?"

 

 

Subramaniam recalls that when she was 13 years old, she met T.S. Part of Eliot's poems was stumbled upon. She didn't understand it all, but "I knew I was in the presence of beauty and mystery." She did not know who Eliot was. For 13 years, she was his invention.  "We all want as much mystery as clarity. Beauty - and truth - are in the pattern. Both a hundred-watt luster is good for shopping malls, not for poetry!" Subramaniam adds that she likes Randall Jarel’s comment, people don’t stop reading modern poetry because it’s hard: they find it difficult because they stop reading it.