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Sunday Reading:Chimamanda Ngozi.

 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction.   She is also an excellent speaker. Listening her is an amazing experience. There are  her three most popular talks. 1)  The Danger of a single story 2) We should all be feminist 3) Talk on importance of truth in post truth Era. 1. We should all be feminist Her experience with tag of feminist by okuloma and idea of feminist in mind of people that's why she is happy feminist. In society men always physical strong then women. Men always superior in position and power then women. At same place , same job women will get less salary then men. She shares her experience at hotel , when she alone as Nigerian consider as sex worker. Thus she should be accompanied by men. When she was with man waiter greets man and ignored her. Thus they are products of society. Thus need of equality in rights of men and women . Same ...

Youth Festival -2018 "Ashvariyam "

This blog is part of my academic task.                             Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar  University has celebrated three days of Youth festival which has given the name as Ashvariyam Youth festival. This festival celebrated on 26th October to 28th October. In this festival there were many events like  One Act Play , Skit , Mono-acting , Poetry Recitation , on the spot Painting,  Collage, Cartooning, Rangoli, Installation, Photography , Poster Making , Western group song and solo song , Bhajan , Group Traditional Orchestra  etc. So the task given by Dilip Barad  Sir to watch this events and do critical observation and try to connect with various literary terms.              I attended serval events like One act play, Rangoli , Mono act.  One act play :             ...

Thinking Activity on " The Birthday Party "

This blog is part of my study .For more details  click here,            Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?                         As we discussed in the article that there is absence of Lulu’s in two scenes from the movie, because changes in the film have to do essentially not with the sequence of events or the dialogues but it depends on how we read the texture of the play or find the distinctive characteristic in the character is more important.                  As per my understanding, sometimes it happens that some scenes are relevant to the film that’s why it remains in the film. There is nothing deep into absence of some scene from the text or in the film. It is just because Director can’t omit those scenes from the film because somehow it s...

Thinking activity: Waiting for Godot

 open the worksheet of film screening   click here   1.  What connection do you see in the setting (“ A country road. A tree.Evening.”)  of the play and these paintings? This  painting by Casper David Friedrich,  suggest    the hope with the symbols of country road and tree evening.     “Longing” can be connected with “waiting” . The road and tree present the idea of barrenness.  And the  symbol of the country road indicates the absurdity, nothingness  there is all absurdity. 2.  The tree is the only important ‘thing’ in the setting. What is the importance of tree in both acts? Why does Beckett grow a few leaves in Act II on the barren tree -  The tree has four or five leaves - ?    In act 1 barren tree suggest absurdity in life.    It also shows the impact of world war ll. Society turns into ditch. In the second act tree with  five leaves suggest hope of something ...