Arundhati Roy's life and work

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This blog is about famous Indian author Arundhati Roy. She is famous for his novel  The God of Small Things which won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 1997 and became the biggest selling book by non- expatriate Indian author. first of all I am discussed about her life and some of the facts. And then answer of three questions asked by Dr. Dilip barad sir as thinking activity.

Arundhati Roy :

Her full name is Suzanna Arundhati Roy . She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

Born: 24 November 1961 ( age 58 )

           Shillong, Assam.

Notable work : 

• The God of Small Things ( 1997)
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Other work :

• Power politics (2001)
• The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2002)
• War Talk (2003)
• Public Power in the Age of Empire (2004)
• Field Notes on Democracy : Listening to Grasshoppers (2009)
• Broken Republic : Three Essays (2011)

Notable awards :

• Booker Prize ( 1997)
• Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Coriting (2011)
• Sydney Peace prize
• National Film Award for best screenplay
• Lannan Cultural Freedom Award in 2002

She spent her childhood in Aymanan in Kerala, which has also been written about in her semi autobiographical book the God of Small Things.

She also got  into acting. Her Second husband filmmaker Pradeep Kishen cast her for a minor role in the television serials on India's Independence movement and on two Films Annie and Electronic Moon. She attracted attention in 1994 when she criticised Shekhar Kapur's film review titled " The  Great Indian Rape Trick", and charged Kapur with exploiting Devi and misrepresenting both her life and it's meaning.

She has also written against many government politics of India, Sri Lanka and the US. She was recently criticised for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nomination a tragedy and calling Modi the Most militaristic and aggressive Prime Ministerial candidate.

1.  If you are asked about Arundhati Roy what will be your answer?

If any one asked about Arundhati Roy and my answer is this, she is versatile genius. Because she worked in various fields like authorship, as an actor, screenplay writer and work for human rights etc; One of the well known Indian English authors. Her first novel is The God of Small Things.  She won the Booker Prize for this novel. In her novel we find that current problems of India. Very beautifully she discussed each and every things.

 2. If you are  asked about two novels by her what will be your answer ?

My answer is  The God of Small things and second is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 

1. The God of Small Things :

This novel is her debut novel.  In which she talked about untouchability, social exclusion, feminism, postcolonial cosmopolitanism and childhood experiences of fraternal twins, whose lives are destroyed by the ' love laws '. And also I t throws light on some important things of life how love is always associated with sadness, how a person's childhood experiences affect his or her  perspectivism and whole life. The novel highlights the situation of women in the society.

2. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness :

This is the second novel by Arundhati Roy. Twenty year after her debut novel in 2017 she published her second novel. That is translated into 50 languages , including Urdu and Hindi.

In this novel she talked about unbearable truths of society such as wretched condition of Dalit, humiliated life of Transgender, mediocre government, rape, murder and more over the story is about the marginalized group of people. Who are victims of injustice, inequality and prejudice. The novel is the multidimensional and multi layered story. She is born in upper class family but looks at society for the viewpoint of marginalized community. She also mentioned terrorism in this novel.

3. If you are asked about her perspective towards life what will be your answer?

That is a difficult question for me to answer Arundhati Roy's perspective towards life. We can say that she expressed her life in her works. So her work through we get idea about her perspective towards life.

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Matthew Arnold : Characteristic of good poetry and Criticism

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Welcome to my blog. This blog is  part of thinking activity that is given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. Here i am going to write about Matthew Arnold and his view about good poem and criticism. So first of all we have to know about who is Matthew Arnold.

• Matthew Arnold ( 1822- 1888) :

Matthew Arnold was the English poet and literary critic. He was the son of the prominent English headmaster Thomas Arnold. Matthew Arnold belongs to Victorian era.  If we look at his literary career then we find that he himself divided in his work in three parts : 

                    1) poetical,

                    2) critical,

                    3) Practical.

Study of poetry : 

According to Matthew Arnold Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty". He Said that poetry should be criticism of the life. And also Matthew Arnold said that poetry interpret life in two ways :

First is  the choice of excellence action. The poet who is appeal to great primary human feelings in permanently in the time.

Another thing is grand style - the perfection of form , choice of words drawing it's force directly form the matter which it conveys.

His touchstone method :

In the touchstone method he condemns the French critic Vitet, who had eloquent words of praise for the epic poem Chanson de Roland by Turoldus, saying that was superior to Homer's Iliad. Arnold's theory that in order to judge a poet's work properly. According to him critic should compare it to passage taken  from the works of great master of poetry and that these passages should be applied as touchstone to other poetry. And also he added that a single line or a passage should be applied as touchstone to other Poetry. He said ' short passage and single line will serve our turn quite sufficiently.

 He also talked about many author's poetry like Chaucer, Robert Burns, Dryden and Pope.

According to him the Chaucer, Dryden, Pope and Shelley fall short of the best because they lack " highness seriousness". And also included the best and ideal poet are Homer, Sophocles in the ancient world. Dante, Milton  moderns Wordsworth. He also mentioned that he likes word not for his poetry but for his " criticism of life ".

And also he wants to talk about fallacy and judgement. There are two types of fallacy that is Historical fallacy and other is personal fallacy.  That is all about Matthew Arnold's view on Poetry and the criticism of life.

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Frankenstein movie screening

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Welcome to my world. Here in this blog I am sharing my viewpoint on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the movie Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh. Mary Shelly's work we find that the real representation of her life. As thinking activity i am giving my viewpoints.

•  task :

1) what is the difference between novel and the movie ?

If we read the novel Frankenstein then and then we find the difference between novel and movie. So the essential part is to read a novel. If we look for major difference  then we can say that in novel Shelly don't introduce lady Monster. But in the movie Kenneth Branagh introduce lady Monster as a character. Otherwise the movie is faithful to the novel. So here we can say that the perspective of Kenneth Branagh is different from Mary Shelly. That's why he introduced new character.

2) Does the movie help you to understand narrative structure of the novel ?

Yes , definitely the movie helpful for us to understand the narrative structure of the novel. 

" Images speak louder than words".

Visual media always better for understanding the exact words and things. So the movie through we clarify the narrative structure that is used by Mary Shelly. How narrative changed with particular scene and situation. 

3) Do you think the movie is helpful to understand the viewpoints of different characters ?

Yes, when we see the movie is helpful to understand the viewpoints of different characters. When we read the book at that time we imagine the character and his thoughts. But in the movie we listen to the voice of character and his style and all the things. So the movie is helpful to us. How they think and how they react on other things that we find in the movie.

4) What do you think about the creation if lady monster in the novel and Elizabeth' s look of a Monster in the movie ?

In the novel we see that monster wants to a partner. With whom he spent his time. And he forced  Victor Frankenstein to make a Lady Monster. What is the importance of Lady Monster in novel. Because of Monster's misdeed Victor destroyed Lady Monster. When Monster killed Elizabeth after that  Victor try to alive Elizabeth and go through the process of Monster. Elizabeth's look is similar to the Monster. Here we can say that now time Victor don't feel fear from her. He makes monster for his loved ones that's why his perspective is change towards his second creation.

5) Think about victor's acceptance of Elizabeth and rejection of the Monster ?

Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist and narrator of the main portion of the story. He was studying in Ingolstadt. He was made a Monster. But he doesn't like his creation. He made eight foot tall, hideously ugly. Victor reject his creation. But we think for lady monster then his perspective is different. Elizabeth is beloved of him, may be that's why he likes Elizabeth's monster. He made a monster that is an experiment for him and he was not attached with him that's why he rejects the monster. And Elizabeth is the beloved of him and without her he not live life. That's why he accepted the Elizabeth.

6) Do you think the director is faithful to the Novel ?

The movie Frankenstein is directed by Kenneth Branagh. All over the novel Frankenstein is covered by him. Wec say that at some point director is faithful to novel, But we can not say that director truly faithful to novel. For example, in the novel we can not see the character of lady monster, but Kenneth Branagh came with the character. 

Workshop on quality and Authenticity of wed resources

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Welcome to my blog. Here I am writing about my experience and my viewpoint on workshop.  On the day 19th November 2019 one workshop was organized by Dr. Dilip barad sir at Department of English, Bhavangar, Gujarat, India. The workshop is about

  SEER : Source Educational Evaluation Rubric.

In this workshop sir gave information about What is the essential thing to find out qualified web resources for our research. In this digital era each and every person deal with Internet for their research.

What is the need to do all the things ? Is that to Know about right information. If any person doing research and who is relying on particular source then that is harmful for research. And also for those websites have good quality they remaining.

Second part is about The plagiarism spectrum. Plagiarism is the good for research. Many students doing cut, copy and paste in his research work that is the bad use of technology. But here we have a solution for this kind of problem.

The Turnitin site gives us a rubric in which we find that these five things:

• Authority :  Is the site well regarded, cited, and written by experts in the field.

• Educational value: Does the site content help Advance educational goals?

• Intent: Is the site a well regarded source of of content and viewpoints?

• Originality: Is the site source of original content and viewpoints?

• Quality: Is the site highly vetted with good coverage of the topical area?

Here I am taking three site and gone through this rubric.

	Cliffnotes	SparkNotes	Wikipedia
Authoritative	2     Site is regarded reputable information  that is also cited.	3      This site is the well regarded and content written by scholars.	2    In this site we not find that particular author.
Educational value	3    In this site we find that valuable content with points.	3      well discussed with various topics	4      This site's educational value is high and content that exceeds instructions goals.
Intent	3   To inform learner with well regarded information and some of the facts.	3     Site gives information with particular part wise.	3     This site is not highly well regarded his job is to inform.
Originality	2    Site regarded original sources but combining with repurposed content.	3    Site offers original and well regarded Content.	2   Every person add his view on this site, so that is not reliable.
Quality	3     This site is good quality and good content.	3     Quality is there and one more thing  is there that is information come with topics and points.	4     Content is the high quality and also established good coverage.

In this table green number is represent the points that I have given the particular site. That is the rubric evolution of the web resources by Turnitin company. That is the three example of site.

This is the way to find out an authentic and qualified web resources for our assignment and research. In this digital era we don't rely on one source. But we have to gone through each and every source and then decided that which is appropriate one.

So , overall this workshop is fruitful for us. All students got aware about the authenticity and quality of the web resources. We all thankful our head of the department, Dilip barad sir for arranging this type of workshop.

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Duality of nature

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Welcome to my Blog. In this blog I am going to Express my personal view on nature. What is nature for me. How nature  affect in my Life. Which way I have learnt a lesson from the huge part of nature. Assurable I can say that you all interested in nature , but our attechment link with nature that is different one.

 Duality of nature :

In this image we can see that there are two types of nature. Both is important for nature.

Nature for me as a character, with whom I spend my time. When I feel I am alone at that time I feel nature with me. When I was very happy and sad that time also I would like to sit with nature.

Many times people said that whenever they upset and at that time nature make them happy. But in my side nature help me in both (upset and happiness ) times.

Specially in nature I would like to see the flow of the water.we Know that stream of water is clean and pure . But the those water who don't have flow , that became sullage. Another situation of water that is flood. In this situation water became harmful for humanity. That through we can say that  nothing is permanent. As William Wordsworth 

" Fairest of all rivers, loved to

To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song,

And from his alder shades and rochy falls,

And from his Ford's and shellows, sent a voice

That flowed along my dreams."

 If we see only the beauty of the Nature that is not fair. Let see disaster of the Nature. Like that Flood, Hurricane, Tornadoes, Volcanic Eruptions, Earthquake, Tsunamis and other geological processes.

 When we see that the disaster of the nature that time we all helpless. 

(Natural beauty of my village)

Many English writer who express his or her view on Nature. Like that John Keats . Who is the see the wonder of the nature and also he feels the mystery of the Nature . His view on Nature we see in following lines :

" Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find ,
The sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft lifted by the winnowing wind"

Nature is not only beautiful, glorious but they gives us many life changing message. Like in every monsoon we see that in a heavy flow of water little tree, those are very flexible who survived successfully. And those who not flexible they fall in down with the water. This incident give me a fine message that ' in every stage of the life we have to very flexible and go with the flow'. That type of many messages we got from the nature. That's why I like nature.

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