Hello readers,
This Blog is a part of Sunday reading tasks. So, on this Sunday I have been on work to interpret these two Gujarati short stories "Intellectual Indubhai" and "ISI No Haath" from "Polytechnic"- a collection of short stories published in 2016 by Mahendrasinh Parmar.
Let's evaluate this both stories:-
1) ISI no Haath:-
In this Story writer talk about that how religion effect on peoples mind. People try to making money from name of religion. On the name of religion people people ready to do any thing. This thing also reflects in to this story. In this story talked about the power of religion who ruined life of common people by ruined their business.
We see that here ISI words meaning is not any kind of terrorist group and not about particular one person.
Here is the meaning of this word:-
I - Ishvar Dabhi
S - Sharad Joshi
I - Indrajit Dholakiya
There are character in this story. This story main message is which type people blind belief on dharma , only for dharma people make whole temple and eared money though God name. They don't think about any other human being situation but they follow dharma as like blindly.
In this we find story related with religion how to the name of religion people try to earn money.
there are three Ishvar and Sharad who lost their business because of the temple and one professor, his university's land turned into temple, so he could't tolerated this kind of land mafia works. Furthermore, policeman's son also lost his job because of the temple. So, every characters have anger towards the temple.
These all are that persons who lost their business because of that Temple.
The son of inspector , who also lost his job only because of the temple.
This story captures reality in a very unique way. The use of metaphors and dialect of Gujarati language is amazing.
Connection with Real life Incidents :
Religion make people blind. Here the son of Police inspector goes abroad. There he was blind flooded by religious people. He decide to left his engineering and join the work of temple. After build the temple religious people left him form there. He faced many problems and couldn't got job.
So this story highly satirised the religion. It's highlight the blind faith. On the name Religious people ruined the life of others. Religion become business to make money nothing than that. This types of thing harmful for society. It is more harmful than wars. Because it attacks on people's faith. It shows the power of religion who controlled intellectualism.
People are totally blind behind the religion and money. And we see that they want to built temple on that land except of University. So it's strange that they don't value of education.They are ready to kill other people only for their selfishness. This is also contemporary event of the world that people will be ready to kill other only for self benefits.At last they are in favour of the temple and do corruptions.
I find that the ending of story is very interesting.Because it has not the usual ending. All three person are now works in that temple who had great hatred for it. And suddenly S.P. Shinge disappears and media tries to find him.so last we can say that this way postmoder write draw these kinds of social issues in literary work , With the use of Fegarative language, use of metaphors and the comic elements makes the story worth reading.
Many times people are think these are not important things to be discussed or talked. Postmodernist literature makes use of comedy, satire and irony to highlight the dark side of the society and social issues.
2)Intellectual Indubhai story:-
Here in this story writer satire on word "intellectual".Intellectual means, a person possessing highly developed intellect. Like critics, Camus, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud etc, who satirized on Political system, religion and many more subjects. In a way writer makes satire on high class intellectuals.
In story we find that we feel that Indubhai is really intellectual person but after further reading we feel the reality.After that he remember western thinkers name .
So here intellectual mind is also one imaginative truth.The writer has included names of many western philosophers, thinkers, critics. In a way he makes satire on Elite class writers. He makes satire on the theory of Charles Darwin about the evolution of human beings, that if we all human are evoluted from same species then why the society makes difference between the majority and minority, it doesn't makes any sense.
Contemporary events:-
Here are some contemporary events like Godhra riots, majority and minority fights, burning train etc. 'Majority and Minority' and 'Burning train' the Post-Godhra riots come in our mind. This story is about the Post- Godhra riots in which many people lost their lives, mass raped of the women, looting shops, burning children and women.
One another example is G.S.T full form is GOOD FOR SERVICE TAX. It is really good for everyone. It is good for upper middle , lower class people who belong to upper class they can't effective more and who belong to middle class they rise voice . so here middle class people condition as like Minority.
The writer has great ability to connect the real life situation and imaginative stories together. He wrote not only about the incidents but also minutely wrote about situation of people and effects of that incidents upon the mind of people.
Thank you....
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