Visit to an Art Gallery : Ajanta Exhibition

Ajanta Exhibition 

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                      Today I'm going to write about my experience of visiting an art gallery of Ajanta Caves Paintings.

                       On 26th September,2021 Me and My classmates of Sem-3 were visited Shree Khodidas Parmar art gallery exhibition about paintings of Ajanta Caves.

India have large History about Caves of Ajanta and many others Caves. And they all have their own Historical moments for that we all remember that today also. And you want to refer more about Ajanta caves for that go threw the link given below...

Ajanta Caves

Also the Image we can see of Ajanta Caves..

અજંતાની ગુફાઓ મહારાષ્ટ્ર રાજ્યના ઔરંગાબાદ જિલ્લાના અજંતા ગામ પાસે આવેલી છે. સહ્યાદ્રી પર્વતમાળાને કોરીને ઘોડાની નાળ આકારે અહીં કુલ 29 ગુફાઓ આવેલી છે. વાસ્તુકળાંની દ્રષ્ટિએ અજંતાની ગુફાઓ મહત્વની છે. અહીંની ગુફાઓને 2 વિભાગમાં વહેંચી શકાય 1) ચિત્રકલા આધારિત ગુફાઓ અને 2) શિલ્પકલા આધારિત ગુફાઓ. આ ગુફાઓના ભીતચિત્રો અજોડ અને ઉચ્ચકક્ષાના છે. આ ચિત્રોનો મુખ્ય વિષય બૌદ્ધધર્મ છે. અજંતાની ગુફાઓ તેની અનોખી કળા સમૃદ્ધિના કારણે માત્ર ભારતમાં જ નહીં પણ વિશ્વભરમાં પ્રસિદ્ધ છે. ચિત્રકલા, શિલ્પકલા, અને સ્થાપત્ય કલાના અપૂર્વ સુમેળરૂપ આ ગુફાઓમાં થયેલા ક્લાસર્જને ભારતીય કલાને વિશ્વમાં ગૌરવ અપાવ્યું છે.

When we visit Art Gallery from there we meet Raju Chauhan sir and he told us about the Paintings that they all paintings were painted in same size and same way from the real paintings of Ajanta Caves. He also told that in those paintings all painters were used natural colors like red Indian colors etc... Ajanta caves paintings were painted in darkness because Ajanta Caves were 'U' shaped so sunlight can't reach there. And all the paintings painted by students of Khodidas Parmar's students from Bhavnagar. And all the paintings were amazing.

The Ajanta paintings became famous all over the world. They were often compared to other styles, but it soon became clear that they represented an indigenous style and a unique vision. The artist at Ajanta added extra dimensions to their work, so that a sense of touch was implied, and the volume of the painted figure could be conveyed to the viewer.

 Bodhisattva Padmapani 

A painting in cave number 1 of Ajanta caves, this is Buddha’s former existence portrayed as a painting. Cave number 1 of Ajanta caves is known for some of the most elaborate carvings and sculptures from the life of Gautam Buddha.

SR: Breath: Interpretation Challenge & Shooting a Video

Interpretation of Breath play: Samuel Beckett

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                  While studying 'The Theatre of the Absurd' and Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' in our Course, our professor discussed the film version of Beckett's Shortest play 'Breath' - thirty-seconds play and assigned us one of the most creative tasks to interpret this shortest play and shoot a small video. 

Interpretation of Breath play : Samuel Beckett 

Breath is a play written by Samuel Beckett in the 1969. It considered as a smallest play ever written. It is only about 30 second play. It also considered as experimental play. This play can be interpretated many ways. The play consider as absurd play. Here I tried to interpretate play. 

Meaning of the Breath :

Breath means both life and death. In life it consider as the symbol  of action. Sometimes person so much habituated of breathing. Person doesn't realise its actually importance for live life. The play reflects the reality of human life. It reflects meaningless and Existentialism. Meaningless in the sense that people has no any purpose of living life. We live life just waiting for death. Breathing help us to reach ultimately death. So Breath is the symbol of Bridge between life and death. 

The script of the play:

CURTAIN Up

1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds.

2. Faint brief cry and immediately inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about five seconds.

3. Expiration and slow decrease of light together reaching minimum together (light as in 1) in about ten seconds and immediately cry as before. Silence and hold about five seconds. 

CURTAIN Down

 Picturization of the play

The script is very short and perhaps it is written for the dramatization purpose. So, I've tried to shoot a video following the original script and also used crying and breathing sound.

Interpretation of the Play

If one tries to interpret such a short play, it can be said that it covers much absurdity and meaningless. As we know that Samuel Beckett is associated with Theatre of Absurd, his another play, "Waiting for Godot" is also an absurd play.

The title of the play Breath is very significant. It refers to life. The script of the play contains miscellaneous rubbish. This suggests boredom and anxiety. The brief cry also signifies life but it also suggest disgust, anguished, stressed, haphazard, pessimist and gloomy thinking. The play is very short so, this also significantly suggests that life is very short. All we have to do is just breath and cry. Crying for status, power, money, recognition, attachment, acceptance and what not. The beginning part of script suggest birth, as the light inspires and grows. The end part suggests death as the light and the sound gradually decreases. But the setup is very rubbish, so it suggests that life is nothing but a rubbish stuff, spread hither and thither. No matter how human tries to decorate the life, it will remain rubbish and coarse. This also relates with Albert Camus's Myth of Sisyphus.

Existentialism: Flipped Learning

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                              Here I am going to wrote about Existentialism. This is my Flipped Learning task. This was given by our professor Dilip barad sir from Department of English Bhavnagar University. 

Existentialism

Video-1  

             

First video is about what is existentialism in which many thinkers talked about the existentialism and Philosophical suicide meant nothingness in life and also a very good ideas about individuality, passion and freedom..

All know define the Existansalism by Je suis existentialism. Associated within is not conciderd to the face existanalist. Start with Kierkegaard. Apply to many a great thing.

Kierkegaard

Nietzsche

Dostoyevsky

Kafka

Keidegger

Shestov

Hesso

Sartre, Beauvoir.

This are the faithful companion. Believing and not believing in God that time we look at individuality, freedom and passion.

Women who committed adultery shall be stoned to death.

No sex before Marriage 

The universe is less than 6000 years 

This is the center of the universe.

Video-2

           

This video is about the philosophical suicide and the myth of sisyphus. The cause of the death is absurdity. Meaning of life is the most important camus individual act. He says relation of suicide act. Absurdity face in the question. Because of life is absurd. Try into common belief refusing to grant meaning to life. We know that this divorce between man and this life, The actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. All healthy men having thought of their own suicide, it can be seen, without further explanation, that there is a direct connection between this feeling and the longing for detah.

An Absurd Reasoning Camus start desplay but braining on exist. He write,

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." 

Video-3 

Feeling of the absurd philosophical suicide        

 

The Notion of Philosophical suicide. This video talked about the philosophical suicide and this problem come out from A total absence of hope, A continual rejection and conscious dissatisfaction. From this method people escaped from absurd life.

The feeling of the absurd is not, for all that, The notion of the absurd. It lays the foundations for it. People try to escape from this absurdity because other one can live in a physical suicide on a physical suicide, individual state of mind needs to stay her or himself pertinent state of individualine, Sudha question of God and it is stand in front of us that one can her rational and can free for the all kind of structures of society. 

Video-4 

Dadaism and Nihilism has nothing to do with each other, there is only one similarity that both are fed up with arbitrary values of life. they do not want such values invented by others.

In this video the very well know concept of dadaism and Nihilism denotes idea of life so that basic meaning of dadaism is a quest for change or creation is the primary goal of the Daizam and the IT arises. The absurd doesn't frightened me because, from a more elevated point of view, I consider everything in life to be absurd.

Video-5

Is Existentialism is gloomy philosophy? Every life is full of anxiety, despair and absurdity, but we are free to choose our own path of living. Every individual choose his/her way of life but when result is not good then they escape from this situation that is not fair practice. Existentialism is differ from Nihilism. After world war-2 People's life became miserable and full of despair. Everyone tried to find the meaning of life.

In this video we can see there exist racialisam is a very gloomy philosophy then an anxiety disappear absurdity can tack place and we never faced this argument in the arena of Existentialism. Existentialism is often accused of being a gloomy philosophy while there's a truth to this claim, we must look at the whole picture.

Video-6 

Much difference between Existentialism and Nihilism. Existentialism believe in subjectivity like individuality, nothingness, absurd life while Nihilism believe in objectivity like everything is illusion in life.

 In this video, I briefly explain why  Existentialism and nihilism are two distinct movements. Many people says Existentialism and Nihilism are the same thing, but actually not very meaning of Nihilism is that something which is loss of individuality. Nihilism is a concept of passively accept the life. Also give the new concept that responsibility to fight against suicide call rebellion. 

Video-7

Existentialism ask question of existence that why I am here? what is life? Divine perspective and human perspective. Human were not design by any supernatural power, existentialism see the life from religiously, scientifically and philosophically and raise question about human existence.

In this lacture we look at the history of Existentialism examine what for Existentialists is the key concern of philosophy, discuss the phrase existence precedes essence, and differentiate between Existentialism and Nihilism. 

Video-8 

Existentialism and Nietzsche: Nietzsche's Existentialism talked about that human being is everything, there is no need any supernatural power to govern life. Like God is dead so human being can make their own rules and be like superman or ubermensch.

The clear concept of Existentialism is that we do not need to believe in the constructions and rule we have own disciplines and ruled social constructions and already Seth rules don't it have the universal morality which leads that governs all of us. In this video I get know very interesting concept and I am very impressed with it that it is " ubermensche" which is connected with what's good and bad. 

Video-9 

Existentialism is a way of life and understand life deeply. Existentialism says about what I am. Eric Dodson said that it is honest and shows reality of life and accept your fault and your abilities.

This video is a fairly personal description of what attrects me to Existential thinking, and of waht I get out of it. This one is also something of a companion - piece to my recent video on Existentialism and human development. It is a kind of quest between good or bad for to be or not to be in a general sense we can say that it is a fight between mind and heart of a person. 

Video-10

 

I like the idea in this video is that only we can give reason to our choice or we can say that there is no reason for choice is just a choice. There is no meaning of life but meaning is given by us to our life.

The last video we can see this was a idea of Existentialism is that waht gives life meaning what is the meaning of life, what is the purpose of life. Existentialist every meaningful thing is a meaningless here we can find the concept of Nihilism, connected with the belief of ultimate meaningless of life. In this particular last video I like the concept of theory of theology. 

Answer-2 

I like the video-8 "Explain like I'm five: Existentialism and Nietzsche that human being have the power of everything it means human being can make their own rules and be a superman and he/she can do whatever they want. And also they win every time. They always keep that what they want.They have not any kind of pressure, rules and regulation also. That's why i like...

Answer-3 

Flipped learning is best to learn from anywhere, I like it most because it provides us content with appropriate pictures and signs so it would easy to understand the content. Flipped learning also very beneficial for four basic skill LSRW, through this learning we can improve our listening skill from native speaker and also we can improve our memory to remember the speakers words and note down. And also we can learn how to pronounce spells. At last, I can say that we can learn from anywhere in our time through flipped learning.

                                            

Thank you...

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SR: Gujarati Short Stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar

Two short stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar : 

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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.