Vaidehi Hariyani

In my Graduation syllabus, I had a book named “ The Winged word”. This anthology is edited by David Green. It is anthology of poems compiled for the students of English literature in the B.A courses of Indian Universities. The chronological order, in which the poets are arranged in this book, helps the students to note the development of English poetry from one age to another. Referring to this book after a long time span, gives me a immense joy. There are many poems in this book. We were given some selected poems to study during three years of graduation. The poems which were in my syllabus are as follow:-    1.)   I Find No Peace – Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)    2.) My Friend, the Things That Do Attain –Henry Howard (1517- 47)    3.) The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd –Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)    4.) The Nightingale – Sir Philip Sidney (1554- 86)    5.) Since There’s No Help – Michael...

This blog is a part of my classroom activity…. Click on the below image to have a look at the activity. Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett.In this play two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. The play is divided into two acts.  Here are my responses for the classroom activity given above. 1.)     The setting of the play is “A country road, A tree, Evening ”. This setting is inspired from two paintings by Casper David Friedrich's “Longing”. In both the setting of the play and these paintings, we find the play of ‘ hope ’ and ‘despair’ in human life. 2.)     Tree is the important symbol in both the acts. In the first act tree is barren, so it suggests the loss of faith and spiritual degradation among the people after World War 2. In the second act we find some leaves on the tree, it suggests hope. People were lost but there is a little hope t...

Hello friends, Today I attended the third programme organised by the Women’s Development Cell of Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. After the last experiences of the programmes organised by the development cell, I was not much excited to attend this event. Ohhh! You forgot what happened in the past programmes????? No worries!!!! Click on the below image to rewind and see. The title of the programme was “Humour with Hormones”. This family programme or public awareness programme was amalgamated with Quawali – Bhavai – Dance. The keynote speaker of the event was Dr.Kala Shah (Senior Gynaecologist, Ahmedabad). She was going to talk about the Menopause and Andropause in a very light way. The event started with the speech by Dr. Zala sir (VC,MKBU). The speech by our VC was good. According to him, Whenever we talk about women empowerment we refer to names like Bachendri Pal ,Kiran Bedi etc. Women empowerment means to make women strong in ...

Hey all, During the last visit at the Central Library, I issued two books.....   1.)   “Koik var thai ke…” by Varsha Adalja. This book contains different Gujarati short stories. Varsha Adalja is a Gujarati feminist novelist, playwright and negotiator who won the 1995 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for her novel Ansar. She is also a dramatist, writing for stage plays, screenplays, and radio. This collection of short stories reflects the human desires and how these desires are suppressed time and again by the society, family and other sources. One of the stories which I liked the most is “Koik var thai ke…” It is a story of a girl named Shalini, who reflects the typical obedient girl. She always listens to her parents and the important decisions of her life are also taken by them. Shalini loved Solanki and wanted to marry him, but she had to marry some rich guy. After 15 years they meet again, and the things have changed. Shalini represents no...

Last week had a combo delight of two films  “ Pink”  and  “Parched”. Two films…..Two different paths…..same destination….. Both the films come with a different texture and different atmosphere. Pink took us into the so called classy life of urban population; with Parched we enter the vicinities. There are many similarities between both the movies. Both represent the struggle of women against patriarchy. Both the movies shows that how women are subjects of this misogynistic society. Women are ordered how to behave, what to wear, how to talk and much more. Women of urban area are  judged by what they wear, consuming alcohol, coming home late etc., while Rural women have different things on which they are judged like to be widow or infertile etc. In short, women are treated as subjects on whom judgement is to be passed. The films have a great star cast whose acting will give you Goosebumps. In the film, “ Pink ” Amitabh Bachchan will...

On 20 th September 2016, I got a wonderful chance to attend a seminar on the prominent Gujarati poet Labhshankar Thakar . It was organised by the Bhavnagar Gadhyasabha . It was the seventh event under the ‘Rajatparv’ of Gadhyasabha . There were many well-known figures of Gujarati Literature like Dr.Chandrakant Topiwala, Suman Shah, Vinod Joshi, Rajesh Pandya, Minal Dave, My Dear Jayu, Paresh Nayak and Prabodh Parikh , who talked about the works of Labhshankar Thakar. The seminar “ La. Tha. Sarkhi Vat ” was organised in the old Court Hall of Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. We were also fortunate to watch a documentary film on Labhshankar Thakar “ Manas ni Vat ”, directed by Prabodh Parikh and produced by Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. Frankly, I didn’t have much idea about this seminar. The day before the event we had a talk on Film Appreciation by Prabodh Parikh, which lead me to join this event. Also I didn’t have much idea about the prominent poet La.Tha. , exc...

Hello Friends, This Blog is a part of my online blog task for Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse”. Click here to see the worksheet of the blog task. My responses to the questions are given below:-        1.) “ Life is Simple, People are Complicated ” This thought can be justified with the help of the novel ‘To the Lighthouse’. Virginia Woolf used the narrative technique “Stream of Consciousness’” in very effective manner. We as human very well know how thinking makes our relations so much complicated. How people have a variety of thoughts every minute which makes life more complicated. Virginia Woolf presents the hidden thoughts of each and every character. For example: James hatred for his father…. “ Had there been an axe handy, a poker, or any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his father's breast and killed him, there and then, James would have seized it.” – Part 1 Thus, the writer has used the effective technique to represent t...