Vaidehi Hariyani

Hey all, On 22/8/2016, I got chance to attend an interesting movie screening of a documentary “Rivers and Tides” at #DepartmentofEnglish #MKBU. “Rivers and Tides” is a 2001 documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates sculptures from natural materials such as rocks, leaves etc. The director follows Goldsworthy in his journey of art and questions about his inspirations, frustrations and goals. It was released again in 2003 with addition of melodious Background Music. (Wikipedia) If you are an entertainment lover……Don’t Watch It!!!! It is an utterly wonderful film with beautiful representation of Art in Nature and a deep philosophy of life. This movie can be watched with two different angles.      1.)   Art at the centre :- Nature itself is a beautiful creation. Everything in the nature has a pattern which creates art. The art in the Nature and The art which can be created using nature is superbly captu

Hey all, During the recent visit to the Central Library, MKBU… I issued two interesting books. 1.)   Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction – Damien Keown This is a wonderful book on the introduction of Buddhism. It gives us a glimpse of the teachings of Buddha and the integration of Buddhism in daily life. It also deals with how Buddhism is different than other religion. This book gives us as much possible information in all the chapters like on the Buddha rebirth, Buddhism in Asia…etc. but if you are craving for more deep knowledge then read other works on Buddhism. This is a very short introduction so you can’t find much in this. After learning the theory of post colonialism, this book can be questioned. It is written from a “Western” perspective. 2.)   The best Gujarati short stories of 2006 This book is a collection of short stories in Gujarati, which were quite popular during the year 2006. There are many interesting stories dealing with human relations, polit

Hey everyone, While studying postcolonial literature, we saw an another interesting film on 4 th August,2016 at the Department of English, M.K.Bhavnagar University. This blog is also a part of our academic activity.                                                                           CLICK here to follow the link. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is a political thriller film based on the 2007 novel “The Reluctant Fundamentalist ” by Mohsin Hamid , directed by Mira Nair . It was released in 2012. The film features Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead role. The Historical canvas of this film is the American Dream and 9/11 attack . This film deals with Capital Fundamentalist and Jihadi fundamentalist in a parallel way. Techniques used in this film are Monologue and Frame story. The event in the film was unfolded by using Flashback Technique. The plot begins with the kidnapping of Anse Rainier , an American professor at Lahore University. After which an A

Hello friends, As a part of academics, I got a chance to attend movie screening of the film adaptation of “ Midnight’s Children ” at the Department of English, MKBU. This blog is also a part of academic TASK given below:-                                       CLICK HERE “ Midnight’s Children ” film is based on the famous novel by the Booker prize winner Salman Rushdie . The film is directed by Deepa Mehta and screenplay by Salman Rushdie. The film features many versatile actors like Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas and many more. It was released in 2012. The novel was published in 1981. The films deals with the historical events like partition of India, Birth of Bangladesh, Emergency of 1975 in India etc. at the backdrop and the story of two boys in the front. We can say History and fiction goes parallel. The genre used by Rushdie in his novel; “Historiographic  Metafiction ” can be observed in the film as well. The film tells story of the two boys, Sa