SR: Gujarati Short Stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar

Two short stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar : 

Hello Readers 

Today I'm going to write about the blog is a part of Sunday Reading task. So I write about my thought on two gujrati stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar that "ISI No Haath" and "Polytechnic" - a collection of short stories published in 2016.

Let's evolute the stories : 

1) ISI No Haath : 

In this story writer talk about the religious people who always wants money and also try to make money from the name of religion. That we can see religion effects on the people's mind. The name of religion people are ready for keep any work anything. In this story writer talk about such thing. And also talk about how religion become bed for people and we can say that religion ruined the life of common people.

In this ISI nither means a terrorist group nor one particular person. 

  

Here the word ISI means three person.

                                           I :- Ishvar Dabhi

                                          S :-  Sharad Joshi

                                          I :- Indrajit Dholakiya

 

There are three character in this story. The story tell us about People made temple for the name of Dharma and they earn lots of money from the name of Dharma and God. They haven't any kind of sense that they keep wrong and one day their karma was spoil their life in bed way. 

So we can easily understand that the writer write about the some people who keep bed things and the mistake of their spoiled the name of god and also a religion or good religion people. there are three Ishvar and Sharad who lost their business because of the temple and one professor, his university's land turned into temple, so he could't tolerated this kind of land mafia works. Furthermore, policeman's son also lost his job because of the temple. So, every characters have anger towards the temple.

These all are that persons who lost their business because of that Temple.

The son of inspector , who also lost his job only because of the temple.

 This story captures reality in a very unique way. The use of metaphors and dialect of Gujarati language is amazing.

So this story highly satirised the religion. It's highlight the blind faith. On the name Religious people ruined the life of others. Religion become business to make money nothing than that. This types of thing harmful for society. It is more harmful than wars. Because it attacks on people's faith. It shows the power of religion who controlled intellectualism.

I find that the ending of story is very interesting.Because it has not the usual ending. All three person are now works in that temple who had great hatred for it. And suddenly S.P. Shinge disappears and media tries to find him.so last we can say that this way postmoder write draw these kinds of social issues in literary work , With the use of Fegarative language, use of metaphors and the comic elements makes the story worth reading.

Many times people are think these are not important things to be discussed or talked. Postmodernist literature makes use of comedy, satire and irony to highlight the dark side of the society and social issues.

1. Temples

The writer tries to present the mindset of the rioters, who never thinks morally. They never left any place to destroy, even temples also. They follows no religion in destruction.

2. Portrayal of Police

The writer presents SP as an indifference Police who didn't care much about the incident and didn't treats the criminals as the way they are treated. Just because of his personal reason as he himself wants support their act of putting Bomb in temple. Temple ruins his son's career. Therefore all these three characters Ishvar, Sharad, Indrajeet  are not ill-treated in the remind room.

3. Importance of religious work over education

In this story, SP reminds his one and only son who left his masters in Engineering and went to America for the construction of temple. How religion puts its mark on the mind of intellectual, educated people, and how it blinds the people. As it is obvious that after the construction of temple, his son becomes unemployed and then only he  will realise the importance of his degree which he has left in middle.

4.Construction of Temple frustrates the intellectual mind

The Professor Indrajeet Dholakiya, get frustrated with the construction of temple in the area where all the shops, school are getting destroy. It ruins all the business which were going on in that place.

Therefore all these three characters decided to put Bomb in the place where the construction is going on. But caught by police and Bomb was not blasted, it get defused.

2)Intellectual Indubhai story:-

It's story of Indubhai. He was teacher. As teacher he was very honest and kind person. He doesn't allowed students to do cheating in exams. So he was  very honest and moral person. He was very intellectual person that's why he known as intellectual Indubhai. He has read many books. He was very knowledgeable person.

Double meaning of intellectual :

Here writer satires on the political leaders who has great intellectual power by speaking on any subject in four to five languages. So he satirise on the political leaders.Another meaning of intellectual is the person who have great knowledge of things. Indubhai has great knowledge of literature. He was not only intellectual but also emotional person.

  This story was also about suffering of intellectual people. It also highlight the Western thinkers like Nietzsche, Darwin, Milton, Karl Marx, Rilke and Louis Pasteur. Also it describes the Indian literature like Mahabharat , Ramayana etc. Indubhai also teach humanism to the students in his lectures. He talked about thoughts of Gandhiji and other great thinkers.

● Connection with Real life Incidents :

    This story also connected with real life incident post Gothra rights. In this story also talked about from British perspective.

                                       

Writer took examples while describe Majority and Minority crises as "April as cruellest month". In this people burn the houses and trains. Also the Holy books like Ramayana and Mahabharata ,  krishna nu jivan Sangeet, Astitvano Utsav and Satyana prayogo burned.

It can be interpret as loss of morality and humanity into people .  At the end Indubhai couldn't able to be normal because he was intellectual people , he has ability to see the things with deep understanding. He could see the things which others can't see. At the end his humanity , morality and intellectualism loss in front of the cruel society.  It can be seen his intellect become reason behind his sufferings.

    The writer has great ability to connect the real life situation and imaginative stories together. He wrote not only about the incidents but also minutely wrote about situation of people and effects of that incidents upon the mind of people.