End of March 2020

 And end of the March

I found that, 

An enemy of the people is people,

Whatever shelter u have is the only your  wall.

Able to prevent unwanted air to you.

Though....

Alas! Nest seems nasty now

I think same, 

As Gulliver finds the ugliness of close to faces! 

Memories from Lockdown/ year 2020

 When everyone is in hurry to leave this year let's see quick recap of this year 2020. People says humanity face so much pain in this Pandemic. Some may lost their loved ones... Some may lost their jobs etc., But I personally believe this year teaches a Life lasting lessons. Here, I am pasting some cuttings of my diary pages of lock down period...

30/3/20

आजकल तो लगताहै की हा सचमैं  मैं  Buckett का Vladimir  या Estragon ही हु। Waiting for Godot or don't know for what...  सभी  ने ये लॉकडाउन मै मीडिया मैं इतना कुछ भर दिया है की एक ऊबन सी हो गई है। अरे, जिस रोजबरोज के जॉब के चक्कर से इतना ऊब गये थे उसकी लिए वापस रो रहे है। सच में , ये मानव मन ही जिसको जो भी मिलता है उसमे कुछ कमी लगती है। बचपन में ओशो के एक किताब में पढ़ा तब की एक बात याद आ रही है की... मांगने में जरा संभल के रहना... क्योंकि अक्सर ऐसा होता है की...

मिल जाए तो मिट्टी,

और खो जाये तो सोना।

और बेशक ये सच है।

31/3/20

And end of the March

I found that, 

An enemy of the people is people,

Whatever shelter u have is the only your  wall.

Able to prevent unwanted air to you.

Though....

Alas! Nest seems nasty now

I think same, 

As Gulliver finds the ugliness of close to faces! 

* When Sushant suicide.

Dramatically I would like to say.. please कोई ये कहे दो की हा ये सब जुठ है या सपना है। 

But Deep down I'm feeling I love the way he passed away. No noise...Just like a sudden break...He split up from life!

 Yes, I am talikng about Sushant Singh one of the charming actor of Bollywood. He will live timeless in our heart... In 34 years of life he made splendid memories in our mind. His charming smile will never fade up. 

 People do grow apart & it's unfortunate.. period!!!

Memorable Lines from Alchemist.

 “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ...

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

From

~ Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

New Day!

 Old ways, 

Everything seems quite green, seeds I sow  in past of memories

I believe, never go back, look back

But, the air, Air is still full of smell 

Smell of  breathe…breath of happiness

Happiness which never get

Though in search of it ever

& I found

Happiness is myth;

Myths are always attractive.

….

Obsolete routine is hatred of these days

And today , much fascinating 

With the innovative change 

I wanna retouch it,

The new sun rays….

The new day! 

Independence Day Speech/Anchoring

1. Welcome....

"Freedom should not be something you have to deseve. It's something you just naturally have. It's something that no one can take away from you. So, let's celebrate freedom.... HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY. 

I warmly welcome our esteemed Principal Sir, Reputable Teachers & benevolent students. 

2. Flag Hoisting....

On this auspicious day we all assembled here on this online platform to celebrate our 74th Independence Day. 

So, for that first of all let's salute our flag with the deep faith in our word...great pride in our soul...& extremely glowing dreams in our eyes.

Please everyone stand-up and take your position and follow the command.

3. National Anthem....

Independence day's celebration is undoubtedly incomplete without the national anthem. So for that I would like to request all of you please stay in your standing position and respectfully take part in singing our National Anthem. 'Jan Gan Man....'

4. Raising slogan....

Vande Mataram....(2)

ay Hind...(2)

5. Speech By Class Teacher.

So, I .....(Your Name) from the core of my heart congratulate to you all for being part in this Online independence Day Celebration. It's a total noval idea or like a new beginning in this century. ONLINE became the most used and lived word in this year. Covid-19 has changed our settled lifestyle and we start forming the new ways of living life... Celebrating the life...& We can say Independence means only that our control over our decisions. But, we must have to remember Rabindranath Tagore's words...

" Men, Money and Materials can not by themselves bring Victory or Freedom. We must have the motive power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits. " 

Along with we should always remember that 'The service of Indian means the service of millions who suffer. It means the service for ending of poverty, ignorance, diseases & equality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from the every eye. 

Let's make our country independent from all the unseen boundaries.

I would like to conclude with again Tagore's word... 

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high...                                    

Where knowledge is free....                         

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake." 

Wishing you all very Happy Independence Day.!

Resources: 

https://www.learnesl.net/comparing-script-for-independence-day-at-school-2/

Webinar 2020 MKBU/Literature & Epidemic

• Why we carry so much load on our soul???

Well, general answer is, We Human being can think. Thinking makes us different from all the living thing on the planet. Same as about current situation of covid-19. People all across the world are reading, writing, watching, listening and being victim of this disaster.

In this pendamic, Our Pro.Dr.Dilip Barad, Dept of English.MKBU University has come out with an outstanding idea of 'National Conference' as Webinar on 'Literature and Epidemic'. It's really an innovative as well time demanding step towards learning. So on 16th & 17th May 2020, with the scholars of all over India, I participated in this Webinar. Click here to know all about this webinar 

• 'Literature and Epidemic'

Under this topic people are studying the diaries, movies, novels, newspapers, news, social media, cultures, images, art, mythology, psychology of human mind & behaviour, cause & effects of pendamic, and everything related to the corona, ebola, Spanish flue, plague, mercury, Nhn1 and variety of disease which human's past generation has faced.

On this various plenary speakers as well paper presenters shared their views and widen the horizon of our knowledge. Nearly 80 scholar presented their paper and 12 Plenary speakers shared their innovative, creative and deeply studied knowledge with us. It was like a lot of work to be done in a very short period of time. Though where there is a will, there is a way, same with the very heartily everyone made this webinar successful.

• Most concerned or talked topic was - How would the world after covid-19? How life will reshape in different manners. Fear of disease will shape the humanity in different way. Psychology of people will change... People will start feeling frighten from people. Touch, smell even in the air we will feel the virus for a long time...

• Online shopping-online transaction will increase and along with it Online learning will fastly emerge. Teachers and students both have to be ready with the new ways of learning technology. Despite, what to teach, How to teach will become more serious question. The same way what and how to learn online will be issue of the students. Apart from it, Education through technology is very expensive. Will Our government  able to tackle with upcoming challenges towards education??? This is the point to think upon.


• Experience as participate of online National conference.

The new way of learning (Though as student of Dept. Of English MKBU, I used to study with online classes but this webinar is something beyond it)
To listen the great speakers live on the one platform it's an amazing but what is more fascinating is, you can listen all the speakers at your home in your comfort. Even you can share your comments and appreciation to make webinar more live or to leave your footprint there. Though holding mobile phone for hours in a hot summer day, watching continuously to the mobile screen is not an easy task. And at the end of day your exhausted use of data not allow you to open anything!  By experiencing this we can understand that more than us it's very rigorous task for organizers. So, Heartily Thanks to Dr. Dilip Barad Sir, Miss. Vaidehi Hariyani Ma'am and from Great speakers to all the tiny dots. We (the Learner) are  hoping for this kind of conferences in future too.

I would like to end with The famous opening lines from Charles Dickens' seminal novel on the French Revolution: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..."

Here, I am sharing some of the screenshots of this two days webinar...

Me & My Mother

I never wrote on my parents especially for my mother. I always longing for motherly love. I always believe that she sees me as her competitor or treat me like I'm an adult one. She is mother and I'm daughter this the only lacking thing in our relationship.

Almost all the days in our family starts with bitter conversation of my parents same like quarrel. As my mother never miss the chance to be rebellious in front of anyone. May be reason for quarrel is our dept or absence of  wealth.  She is straight forward in replying anything to anyone. My father expecting too much from her in fact in all the tiny things, but she never flow with it. It's from my one of the great concern that my father too never accept things from her as things are.  Apart from it, He always believe that if he is unsuccessful today only because of my mother that she didn't support him. Thus, ever if I take the side of my father she starts thinking that I'm same like my father and against of her but it's not real thing.

There is always one repentance in my life that, when I was in menstruation period very first time... She saws the blood on my bottom wear though she didn't clarify what it is? where I was total unknown to this physical change. It is the thing always gives tears in my eyes. What she teach me is all about how to maintain clarity of home. If I spend my whole  day in house chores or in cooking she will start loving me for that. I feel how to care for children's liking or disliking is the lacking in her. She never thinks that how to spend the life is everyone's own choice. As far the concern of how to use time is dependent on own choice but if she found me holding book for more than hour she starts interrupting.
In this all cases she found me as mature that I don't need any of her advice at all, but though she keep on finding my faults in whatever things I do.


I saw many mothers boasting about their daughters. I never wants that type of mother. In fact I'm used to with my mother. Everyday we have some happy moments too. All this write up doesn't mean she is not taking care where  I'm sick or etc., She is always there but somehow she always puts me alone to tackle with everything if it's making Mohanthal very first time or fighting with myself for existing. Even I should say I like to celebrate my birth day but before that birth my mother faced a painfilull months. I'm very  unknown to it. I should sacrifice my everything for that painful days &nights of her! After all my existence is only boon by her.   At last, I just want that at least she should feel pride for her daughter that her daughter is not same in the crowd.


Today, I got this boldness to write the truth it's all cause of her.The reason behind it's the only that I learn it from her behaviour... How to speak truth!

 Happy Mother's Day 2020.

#CoronaEpidemic 

#lockdown effect #StayHomeStaySafe.

Dead Leaf

No story can describe the character which m living...
What should I called to myself...
Or how I should define me...

A vulgur portrait on canvas???
Broken Wings?
Bird in Cage?

Chained in golden threads...

Clamor in a air,

Colour of clouds, 

Dead leaf on tree, 

Eternity of emotions,

Endowed one to bear all,

Flame of cremation,

Flower of rose on burial..

Glory of ruined?

Height of monster?

Ivory of ignorance???

Jubiliation of breathing..

Kidnapped in rituals,

Light of lamp,
Melody of mourn...
Nest....who's always search?
Oomph of their omissions?
Pity on presence?
Queen of cards?
Ray of hope...
Silence of responsibility?
Treasure in a trunk?
Umbrella of colours?
Vision of blind??
Words of book,?
I think
I remain as XYZ. (In everyone though...  I'm No one)
As....
Rat's nest
Or
Mirror of thousands dead leaf???



Pause.
What m doing?
Why is it necessary to define me?
Why only end justifies the meaning?

From Teacher's desk...

When I decided to do job. I thought teaching profession will teach me a great things... As when "One teaches Two learns."

Same when we becomes the part of any institution, we come across it's variety of events except teaching as Teacher! From this experiences here I like to share one interesting anecdote.

When school is far from home, students gets a lot of free time. This free time of kids and teenage creates variety of inventions as well issues. Among them one is their bad use of language in conversation. And as a concern teacher it's not a moot point. I found it as serious problem cause small kids do likewise as a consequence.

But, to tackle with secondary's students' rowdy nature is like entanglement. Although, I try to give them challenges as an interesting Riddles ..

RIDDLES

1. Give the maximum words which is the same while reading/writing from starting or ending side.

2. If you remove the first letter the pronunciation doesn't change. Remove the last letter as well and still it's same. Even if you remove the first, third and last it stays the same. Remove everything and it's still empty! Give the word...

3. Which is the word is bunch of silent words? (Clue- word is having five letter but pronunciation is in one word only!)

Except this and other Riddles like this, I found one idea worked a lot and it is this ....
I gave them one word 'Enthusiastically ' and now students have to make maximum spellings/words by using letters which is used in word enthusiastically.! & It might surprise you that  students made nearly 250 spellings ! It's really great. They start thinking in one direction on one idea... They started checking in text books and dictionary. For searching word they start reading! Any how they wants to win.

This lead me to think that new generation comes with new demands and if we update ourself with new ideas, surely we can lead students in right direction. I found it's really working idea for language learning but how to continue it? Of course It's teachers task!

Stop complaining...
Start thinking for solution.


One of my friend's (Vipul Dabhi) interesting comment on this blog.

Well observed. 
• But #Children are the #Yield of a society. Their behavior reflects the atmosphere in which they live.
• The 'learning' is a two way process. A good teacher, first, always look from students' perspective because that what helps in widening the mental horizon of a teacher. 
• As you mentioned in your blog,  #Update, yes it is core thing in learning. 
• Creativity is important in learning.
• Involve students in some activities. Know students' s interest also.  If the interest is not valid then tell some fable.
•Specially in primary and secondary school. 
• It is quite tough job to be a teacher in a school.

Picnic At Kankariya

29 February
Leap year
Saturday
Kankariya Picnic
Elite Senior Secondary Boarding School

'When we are traveling
We are actually not traveling
We are planning & on all the way checking that everything is going according to our plan or not...!

29 february, Children were waiting for it from many days and finally the day comes with so many excitement in the morning.

As the Kankariya is known as 'The heart of Ahemdabad'. Kankariya lake have many fascinating points. We enjoyed many of them points like
- Nocturnal Zoo
- Atal Express Train Ride
- Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden


It was my first experience of picnic as a Teacher and to tackle with small kids and primary students is not an easy task at all. I feel we are taking responsibility of student's saftey as well their enjoyment and it's very responsible task.

Though, I feel it was a memorable day with lot of experience. I enjoyed with co- teachers and my enthusiastic students. At the last I have to say Thank you to Principal Sir as well Jayesh Sir & Ishan Sir for making all the arrangements. 

The Romantic Age(1798-1837)

This period coincided with French Revolution which was carried against oppression. The literature of this period valued emotions, passion and individuality in place of reason and intellect.

Introduction of Romantic Age

The romantic period in English literature begins with the publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and ends with the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Romantic period coincidence with the revolution in French and American and therefore it is also known as The Age of Revolution. The French Revolution was a battle to achieve equality and remove oppression incurred by opperessive King Louis XVI. People of France were angered by increased taxation to support their country's involvement in the American Revolution, oppressive feudal system, crop failure and other economic difficulties. The French Revolution began in 1798.

The effect of French Revolution did not confine to France only. It started a revolutionary fervour in England. According to David Cody, " The French Revolution was not only a crucial event considered in the context of western history, but was also perhaps the single most crucial influence on British, Intellectual, philosophical and political life in the 19th Century. "

The writers of the Romantic period were inspired by the ideas of the French Revolution and tried to translate these ideas into the realm of literature. The diverse political changes and the triumph of democracy in the period ended with the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832.


Social and Economic background of the Romantic Age

Towards the end of the 18th century major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transport and technology took place in England. The first phase of Industrial Revolution was from about 1750 to 1850. Industrial Revolution had its own problems and it also led to social unrest among the working class who were left jobless due to advent of machines.


These major technological and sociology economical changes, resulted from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The first phase of Industrial Revolution was from about  1750 to 1850. Coal and the steam engines were the main driving forces of this phase.

While England was being radically transformed by the Industrial Revolution and turned into the most industrialised nation, it also led to social unrest among the working class. It generated a violent class conflict between employers and workers, most notably in the Luddite Riots of 1811-12, when textile workers in the north of England attacked the new mills and machinery, which had put them out of work.

However, the Romantic movement in literature is characterised by a shift from the structure, intellectual, reason approach of the 1700’s to use of the imagination, freedom of thought and expression and an idealisation of nature. While, Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century had valued emotion, passion and individuality. They turned from impersonal works to works of more subjective, personal nature.



Literary Background of the Romantic Age

The romantic movement in literature is characterised by a shift from the structured, intellectual and reasoned approach of the 1700s to the use of imagination, freedom of thought and Idealisation of nature.

Romantics valued emotions, passion and individuality in place of logic and reason. Instead of embracing politics as writers of other eras might have done, the Romantics turned to nature for self fulfillment. They were turning away from the values and ideas of the previous era, embracing new ways of expressing their imagination and feelings.

Though Romantic period consists of two generations of poets like...Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Shelley.  The essence of romanticism was that literature must reflect all that is spontaneous and unaffected in nature and in man and be free to follow it's own fancy in own way.  Coleridge and Wordsworth best represent the romantic genius of the age, though Walter Scott had a great literacy reputation and Byron and Shelley had larger audience.

The age produced a new type of  novel which seems rather restrained now but which in its own day, delight a large number of audience whose nerves were somewhat excited and who reveled in 'boggey' stories of supernatural terror. These are called Gothic Novels.

Characteristics of the Age.

*Free Expression

Defining the nature of Romanticism may be approached from the starting point of the primary importance of the free expression of the feelings of the artist.

* Emotions
The importance the Romantics placed on emotion is summed up in the remark of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich that “the artist’s feeling is his law”. To William Wordsworth, poetry should begin as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” which the poet then “recollect[s] in tranquility,” evoking a new but corresponding emotion the poet can then mould into art.

* Imagination
To express these feelings, it was considered that the content of the art had to come from the imagination of the artist, with as little interference as possible from “artificial” rules that dictated what a work should consist of. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others believed there were natural laws that the imagination—at least of a good creative artist—would unconsciously follow through artistic inspiration if left alone.

As well as rules, the influence of models from other works was considered to impede the creator’s own imagination, so that originality was essential. The concept of the genius, or artist who was able to produce his own original work through this process of creation from nothingness, is key to Romanticism, and to be derivative was the worst sin. This idea is often called “romantic originality.”


Not essential to Romanticism, but so widespread as to be normative, was a strong belief and interest in the importance of nature. However, this is particularly in the effect of nature upon the artist when he is surrounded by it, preferably alone. In contrast to the usually very social art of the Enlightenment, Romantics were distrustful of the human world, and tended to believe that a close connection with nature was mentally and morally healthy. Romantic art addressed its audiences with what was intended to be felt as the personal voice of the artist. So, in literature, “much of romantic poetry invited the reader to identify the protagonists with the poets themselves”.

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How literature Shaped me?

From very beginning of secondary education I start taking much interest in books. I love my lonely dark morning with books and horror midnight with books. Journey started with Panchatantra stories, Bakor Patel's stories, Arabian nights and Amar Chitra Katha's mythological books. Than interest grows and I started reading Writer like Ashwini Bhatt, Chetan Bhagat, Priykant Parikh, Harkisan Mehta, Sudha murty, Rabindranath Tagore, Jay Vasawada and various other self help as well as story book catches my eye on variety of subjects. Sometime, in the worry of what will happen next in novel makes me worried even in dream. While reading I am living the characters of that book. As Tagore says We Humans feels immense anxiety and joy of fictional character! I feel I am the part of that story or this is similar story of my! But it's all about like reflection of my memory. I don't know When books start cursing or curing myself.

What was the understanding back then and now? Can We Question Knowledge system ?

If there is question like, Does literature make you nicer people? and Make you more lonely and curse your loneliness ? In answers of this question, I would like to say that Yes, I used to read literature in my graduation or even in school days but my understanding of what is literature in real sense is developed during my master studies under the guidance of Dr. Dilip Barad. He made me able to read beyond the words. In this two years of my master studies numbers of books reading decrease but I developed my thinking ability on characters and life in literature. I really learn that to take education means to go through darkness to light... तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय. Darkness of social as well as mental bondages. Real education is What makes you free.. ! There's no boundary line of mind. I grown up with definition of education as सा विद्या या विमुक्तये but now I get it the real essence of this definition. Which means the true education makes you more liberal, free from all kind of bondages and wider our horizon as much as possible. But, As J.K. Rowling says in Harry Potter series that, 'We Muggles believes that truth will come out' but, it will not come out automatically we have to seek it. Similar thing God Says in Chetan's One night at the call centre.

Think about what you really want and what you need to change in your life to get it. If I try to tell about everything in few words, Samuel Beckett's...

" Every Tried, Every Failed... No matter. Try again, Fail Again, Fail better.

What Is Literature? back then and Now.

Well, understanding and defining literature is not everyone's cup of Tea. Still I will try to present my understanding about literature. When we say literature is a mirror to the society we somehow forget that we are also part of society. Society which is group of individuals. Each have their own Identity, suffering, dream and far away all this things Everyone have their own story to live with various colors of emotions. And literature is the clothe of this emotions, means...literature means Words...Words... and Words. latent meaning of it is real beauty to see. But, metaphor of clothe for literature is I found most appropriate as per my views. As in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' Polonius gives advice to his son Laertes. His words are... "Apparel oft proclaims the man" is expressed in modern times as "The clothes make the man"; meaning that people forms judgment about others based upon the clothes that they wear. The same happens with words... what you speak it will decide your personality. And literature means voice of society, it speaks for society to the society.

My literature review when I entered in dept. of English.

Jiffy blink

We went to her home...
Sorry, I didn't feel if it's home at all, let me again start,

We went to her shelter...(it's quite apt.)
As my school need urgent teacher. I found her as qualified one for the empty place in school. But again one bitter experience of casteism got as sugar coated sour pile.

I assure you by sinking into her eyes that, yes really she wants to be free from the golden cage of parenthood or rather to say she just want to try a new taste of life. But it was just for moment like jiffy blink.

So without much ado. I try to exit as I was not interested in their fake reasons of avoiding this opportunity. I felt so sorry for her condition. I was worried whether she will ever can feel golden chain as obstacle.

But soon I found mtslef as less confident and a bit embarraced. And as for the topic of feeling less able infront of rigidity. Infront of their sunken state of mind. Why still some of the regions are not free from the severe mentality. Now these days of kings And queens are gone. It is the era of knowledge information and internet. If we will not match legs with the time our story is no more...The modern education is on awakening of proper interests, attitudes and values building essential skills.

Though, even today as I look around, I found women all around me going about their lives with purpose and determination.

After all, I hope someday she can identify the difference between shelter and home. And I walked out....