Vaidehi Hariyani

Hello Readers,       In this blog you will find two powerpoint presentations prepared by me and my group members. Our teacher Dr.Dilip Barad gave us group reading task on the two following topics:- 1.) Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies 2.) Technoculture and Risk It was a great experience to study in group. We can learn so many things from our group members as well. Postcolonialism and cultural studies from vaidehi Hariyani Technoculture and Risk Theory from vaidehi Hariyani Here I would also like to share my experience regarding presentation of Technoculture and Risk. In risk theory we see that as soon as the risk becomes real it turns  into disaster. It happened with me as well. As soon as I went for my presentation the pen drive got corrupted and I couldn't play it. Thanks to my teacher Dilip Sir, that he taught us to be ready with Plan B, if plan A fails. So this risk could not become disaster for me. I presen...

Recently we had a classroom activity- Group reading and discussion.My group had four girls Monali, Tejasvi, Brijal and myself. The topic of my group was “Post colonialism and Culture Studies”. It was an amazing and wonderful experience working in a group. Thanks to our teacher Dr.Dilip Barad for this new learning method. We discussed many things in class like the influence of Hollywood films on Indian and other culture, How the Third world represents the First world and so on. We have lots of example of films directed by foreign directors and in which India is shown in a bad way. Are they alone showing us in a bad way or are we doing the same thing?????????? Here I would like to talk about the treatment given to foreign women. If we look at the movies from postcolonial perspective, we see that Hollywood movies portray Indian culture or Indians in a bad or say in a dark way. We question that why Indians are looked down by the Third world nations. But we shou...

Hello Readers, This blog is a part of my Classroom activity given on this blog . It is impossible to define Deconstruction like Philosophy or Literary criticism once and for all.   Jacques Derrida himself doesn’t define it. Deconstruction is not a destructive activity, but it is an inquiry into the foundations of everything. Post-Structuralist critics go deep into the foundation of text and then they try to undermine it. Derrida says that every text contains element which can deconstruct itself.   As per Derrida,   “Each and every text is read as event and events can be read with different perspective.” He also throws light on free play of meaning. The meaning of one word is set of another word, so one word leads to another and so on. Derrida says “FINAL MEANING IS ALWAYS POSTPONED.”  He also talks about Phonocentricism and logocentricism as well as Metaphysics of Presence. He denies western tendency to privilege speech over writing by...

Hello Readers, This blog is a part of my academic  activity which is given on this blog . In literary theory, Structuralism is an approach to analysing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure .There are many Structuralist critics like Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard  Genette , Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss etc. Structuralist critics found basic common structure in every work. As all the human beings  have a same structure from inside, similarly literature has basic structure and it is same everywhere whether it movies, TV serials or advertisement etc. Here I would like to refer to  Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature " Frye  identified common pattern in every work of art. So he talks about the totality of literature. According to him all are connected somewhere . And when we do criticism from this perspective, It is Archetypal criticism. And Archetypal critics finds this sort of recurring pat...

Hello Friends,                    Sharing with you a beautiful write-up by Robert.M.Drake, a self-published writer from Miami. Hope you all will enjoy!!!                                                         Too Hard To Try It is important to visit that place inside you. That place no other human is allowed to enter. There you will find no fear. You will find the laughing sun and you will love there and rise there and fall there and break there and put yourself back together there. Let that be the only thing you live for and let it take you back where you began. To begin within, I swear... that might be the most beautiful thing in the world. DO SHARE YOUR VIEWS ABOUT THIS WRITE-UP THANK YOU...                   ...

PREFACE OF “LIKE THE FLOWING RIVER”- PAULO COELHO When I was fifteen, I said to my mother: ‘I’ve discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.’ ‘My dear,’ she replied sadly,’your father is an engineer. He’s a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?’ ‘Being someone who writes books.’ ‘Your uncle Haroldo, who is a doctor, also writes books, and has even published some. If you study engineering, you can always write in your spare time.’ ‘No,Mama. I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.’ ‘But have you ever met a writer? Have you ever seen a writer?’ ‘Never. Only in photographs.’ ‘So how can you possibly want to be a writer if you don’t really know what it means?’ In order to answer my mother’s question, I decided to do some research. This is what I learned about what being a writer meant in the early 1960s: a.)   A writer always wears glasses and...

HELLO FRIENDS,                        I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ANOTHER ANALYSIS OF A BOLLYWOOD FILM SONG "JIYA...MEIN NA JIYA" FROM THE MOVIE "GUNDAY" Movie: Gunday Singer: Arijit Singh Lyrics: Irshad Kamil Music: Sohail Sen Starcast: Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Year: 2014 Song title: Jiya जिया … मैं   ना   जिया रेज़ा   रेज़ा   मेरा   जिया मैं   बेगाना   सा था   दीवाना   सा मुझको   तेरी   चाहत   में   बसा   दिया हो   लिखूं   हवाओं   पे   मैं नैनों   से     नाम   तेरा हो   साये   से मैं   हाथों   के साया   लूँ   थाम   तेरा इश्क़   का   तू   है   रब जिसके   चारों   तरफ़ मेरी   बाहों   के   घेरे   का   बने   हाशियाँ जिया … मैं...