Report on Activities - June-Nov 2019

A Report on the Activities - June-November 2019

This is a photo-report on the activities in which students of the Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar (Gujarat - India) participated or organized or carried out as team work.

All these activities are carried out between June and November 2019.

A Report on the Activities - June-Nov 2019 from Dilip Barad

Arundhati Roy's Novels

Arundhati Roy's Novels: 'The God of Small Things' and 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'

About the Author:

Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. (Read more)

More about her activism and summaries of her novels:

Early in her career, Roy worked for television and movies. She wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), a movie based on her experiences as a student of architecture, in which she also appeared as a performer, and Electric Moon (1992).^[8] Both were directed by her husband, Pradip Krishen, during their marriage. Roy won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1988 for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones. (Read more)

The God of Small Things:

The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.

The God of Small Things was Roy's first book and only novel until the 2017 publication of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness twenty years later. She began writing the manuscript for The God of Small Things in 1992 and finished four years later, in 1996. It was published the following year. The potential of the story was first recognized by Pankaj Mishra, an editor with HarperCollins, who sent it to three British publishers. Roy received £500,000 in advance and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries.

In 2013, Talkhiyaan, a Pakistani television series based on the novel, was aired on Express Entertainment. ( Read more)

Why should you read 'The God of Small Things':

Set in a small town in India, "The God of Small Things" revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, who are separated for 23 years after the fateful hours in which their cousin drowns, their mother's affair is revealed, and her lover is murdered. The book is set at the point of the twins' reunion and confronts the social mores of India. Laura Wright dives into Arundhati Roy's masterful storytelling. [Directed by Martina Meštrović, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott].

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness:

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, The God of Small Things. It has been translated into 50 languages, including Urdu and Hindi. (Read more)

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Reviews of this novel:

• A patchwork of narratives
• A scarring novel of India's modern history
• Fascinating Mess
• अरुंधति की किताब, जिसका हीरो एक हिजड़ा है

Her belief as an Author:

‘The point of the writer is to be unpopular’

Quizlets - Postcolonial Studies

Quizlets on Postcolonial Studies

Click on the links to open online quizzes on various topics of Postcolonial studies:

1. Postcolonial Studies - Key Concepts

1. Orientalism - 'An Introduction' - Edward Said

1. Black Skin, White Masks - Franz Fanon

1. A Tempest - Aime Cesaire

1. Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie

Rang Mohan Youth Festival 2019 - task to write reflective blog

Rang Mohan Youth Festival 2019 - task to write reflective blog

Youth Festival is an amazing opportunity to experience various artistic expression of the young generation. It has almost all sorts of artistic events and hence it becomes 'fair of art' and 'fountain of youthful exuberance'.

Youth Festival shall never be missed out by students of art, literature and literature. It provides rare opportunity to apply literary theories on the artistic expression on the university campus by students of their own age. The critique of the artistic expression of students by students is an ultimate test of Matthew Arnold's 'personal fallacy'.

The following task was given to students to write reflective blog based on below given points to ponder:

All students shall write at least one blog on their observations of various Youth Festival activities. Here are some points to ponder upon:

1. Themes represented in various tableaux of Kala-yatra - 25/9/2019 - From Samaldas Arts College to Law College, Sardarnagar. 4 pm to 6 pm.

2. Major themes in dramatic events like One Act Play (एकांकी), Skit (लघु नाटक), Mime (मूक अभिनय) , Mono-acting (एक पात्रीय अभिनय).

3. Can you apply dramatic literary theories propounded by Aristotle (Tragedy), Ben Jonson (Comedy of Humours), Dryden (Play), Martin Esslin (Absurd theatre), Irving Wardle (Comedy of Menace) on the dramatic events presented in Youth Festival?

4. Can you categories One Act Play or other dramatic events as sentimental / anti-sentimental comedy, comedy of manners, classical tragedy, modern tragicomedy or bollywoodish theatre performance?

5. Poetry: In poetry, we have only one event in Youth Festival. સ્વ રચિત કાવ્ય પઠન: If you get chance to listen poems (as it will be in classroom and may be all do not get chance to occupy space) - write on themes, metaphors used in the poems, types of poems (sonnet, lyric etc).

6. On last day, before or after valedictory, all art events like cartooning, painting, collage, poster making, clay-modelling, installation will be open for public display. You can study themes, satire, didacticism, aestheticism in all these artistic expressions.

7. Lastly, write on which ever other events you attend and along with it, overall feeling of experiencing Youth Festival - ponder upon this - it is known as 'festival of youthfulness' - युवानी का महोत्सव.

Submit the link of your blog/s as assignment submission. If you are writing more than one blog, submit all links together.

Here are some worth reading blogs by students:

1. Kavisha + additional blog
2. Mehal
3. Nirali
4. Ravina
5. Rohit
6. Samiya
7. Sanjay J
8. Tamsa

Mind Your Language - Four Seasons

Mind Your Language - Season 1:

Mind Your Language - Season 2:

Mind Your Language - Season 3

Mind Your Language - Season 4:

Glimpses of Youth Festival 2018 - English Department

#YouthFestival2018

Congratulations to SSCCM team and Prin. Dr. Hetal Mehta for winning general championship third consequetive time, and KPES team ( Chirag V Vyas, Jagat Bhatt) for being Runner Up.

The students of

Department of English - Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University got three ranks:

1. Zankhana Matholiya - third in Rangoli;

2. Vidhya Pandya - Second in Western Solo;

3. Vidhya Pandya, Niyati Pathak, Riddhi Joshi, Jagruti Vasani, Dipti Gohil and Avni Dave - Western Group Song.

Other photos can be viewed here: 

https://www.facebook.com/dilipbarad/media_set?set=a.10156950419312472&type=3