Vinod Joshi's sairandhri

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      This blog is about Vinod Joshi's "sairandhri". Vinod Joshi talk on sairandhri with Zelam hardikin SBS radio. This blog is response to Dr. Dilip barad sir's blog, click here to listen interview.

                            Vinod Joshi

Born: 13 August 1955 ( Gujarat, India)

           Joshi is critically acclaimed in Gujarati literature for elegant Female sensibility in the sounds rhymes and rhythms of his Geets. Motifs in his poetry include intense femininity, solitude, social status, and an indefinable individuality, conveyed image of everyday reality and objects.
         
 Famous work:

         Vinod Joshi known for his poetry and criticism.

• Parantu: A collection of Geets (1984)

• Shikhandi:a character from the Mahabharata (1985

• Radio Natak:Swarup ane siddhant (1986)

• Tundil- tandika: A form of Padyavarta a Gujarati medieval literary General(1987)

• Zalar babe zoothadi:A collection of poems (1991

• Sairandhri (2018)

About Sairandhri:
       
       Sairandhri, a metrical poem composed in prabandha from with seven cantos,49 chapter and 1800 lines . It is based on Draupadi, one of the character of Hindu epic Mahabharata and depicts a distinct world of Draupadi's thoughts feelings as a woman during her exile using various meters, chopai and Dohra. 

     Vinod Joshi with Zelam hardik in SBS radio. Talk on Vinod Joshi's latest poem written in Australia that is Sairandhri. The interview start with Vinod Joshi's famous line:
          "આપી આપીને તમે પીંછું આપો,
           સજન પાંખો આપો તો અમે આવીએ."

      Then Vinod Joshi tells about his work "Sairandhri " that is based on Mahabharata's viratparva ,in which Draupadi hide herself in a servent. In reality she is queen and many other name for her like that Agnikanya, Tejsavini, Krushna,Panchali. But Vinod Joshi said that :

         " મારી સૈરેનદ્રી મહાભારતથી જુદી છે"

        That means Vinod Joshi try to portrayed different look of Draupadi. Mahabharata's writer not portrayed Draupadi in this way. So there is different message for people. That's why Vinod Joshi said that:

મારે મુળ કથાનકથી જુદી વાત કરવી હોય તો જ હું સૈરેનદ્રી લખું ને ?

         This poem's main theme is"Loss of identity". She hide her real self from others even pandava also. So  one who can hide real self and live other way that is the big problem which way she suffer for hide her emotions,her thoughts and  power as queen. Here Vinod Joshi convey different kind of message. Our day to day life we hide  are real self and behaviour. And live life for others expectations. Vinod Joshi said that this poem is about  only ' Woman' not Draupadi and Others.

      Here two character suffer for their identity. Vinod Joshi's Sairandhri fall in love with Karna,in Mahabharata different plot. Many times woman  lost her real identity  for his family. I think the basic concept of the poem is:

"પ્રગટ થાય છે એ કોણ અને આપણી અંદર કોણ છે, એ બહુ જ મોટો કોયડો છે".

Thank you !