Minkal Italiya

"The Nightingale and Rose" “Nightingale and Rose” is a famous short tragic fantasy story written by Irish playwright and poet, a very popular literary figure in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde who was also a spokesman of the 19 th century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake. He was known for his acclaimed works including ‘The Pictures of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The importance of Being Earnest”. Besides these factors he also remains in talk of town because of his brilliant wit, flamboyant style of writing as well as imprisonment of homosexuality. The short story is about a undying and altruistic love, in a typical Wilde style, the narrative deals with irony, sarcasm, paradox and surprise as well. “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses’, cried the young Students; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose.’ The story begins with boy’s quest for red rose, the girl demands him to bring red rose then and ...

"Ghashiram Kotwal" “Ghashiram Kotwal” is a Marathi play written by one of the most well known Indian dramatists of 2oth Century, Vijay Tendulkar. He is known for his Marathi writing which deals with various issues related to contemporary social,political, economical and cultural life in Maharshtra. In the “Ghashiram Kotwal” he also used historical reference, and used in such a way that it become a universal in the play. The play was written in 1972 as a response to the rise of a local political party, Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. The theme highlights contemporary scenario through the character of Ghashiram Halwai, his journey shows how a men in power give rise to ideologies to serve their purposes and later on destroy them when they are not needed more or become useless. Tragedy of corruption and power The plot spins around Ghashiram Savalda, a North-Indian Brahmin from Kanuj and Nana Phadanvis, chief minister of Peshwas in Maharashtra. The play is divided in t...

“The Old Woman” As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. As the spent radiance Of the winter sun, So is a woman With her travail done. Her brood gone from her, And her thoughts as still As the waters Under a ruined mill. From the ages, we observe that everyone praises the beauty of young women in every possible way but only few are there who praises the beauty of old woman. Though it is a very short, significant lyrical poem is written by an American author , mythologist and lecturer Joseph Campbell. The poet in a very realistic way compared the old woman with naturalistic elements in order to bring out beauty in her agedness. “The poem shows blessings and beauties of an old age lady by using figure of speech, metaphorically she was compared with white candle and with the spent radience of winter sun”. In the very first stanza of poem, the poet compares the beauty of old lady with a white candle in holy place. How meaningf...

“The Daffodils” The most famous poem in English language “Daffodils” also known by title   “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a lyric poem written by Romantic poet Laureate William Wordsworth, who along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballad. In this collaborative work poetry was defined in new light which is quite different than poetic style and structure of eighteenth century. Along with the beginning of romantic era, nature was thought to be a proper subject matter for poetry as well as the much emphasis was put on use of simple language, imagination, originality and poetic freedom. In contrast to the exaggerate language of poetry in earlier time, simplicity of language became a landmark in poetry which enables everyone to understand the meaning of it.   Though the many poems written during that period by John Keats, P.B.Shelley, Coleridge and so on, Worswroth’s Daffodis can ...

This blog is response to the task assigened here in the classroom...    "The Da Vinci Code" The “Da Vinci Code” is a 2003 blockbuster mystery thriller novel by best known American author Daniel Gerhard Brown widely known as Dan Brown. Though the novel is a very rich in term of symbols and clues, it remains the subject to criticism and intellectual debate. In 2005, Time Magazine’s editors, while naming him one of the 100 Most influential people in World, credited him with, amongst other thing, “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewing interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; and spiking tourism to Paris and Rome”. From this famous novel, under the same name in 2006 mysterious thriller film was directed by Ron Howrad and written by Akiva Goldsman. “Da Vinci Code” movie follows symbologist Robert Langdon as he investigates a murder in Paris’s Louvre Museum and discovers a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the assumptions o...

Reflective blog: Expert lecture on "Waiting for the Barbarians" by R.B.Zala  'The more you know, the more your critical mind may suffer' The reading of any book is not at all easy task but it doesn't mean that one can quite reading or read it only to get entertain. Talking about Waiting for the Barbarians, it is a worth reading novel written by twice Booker Prize winner novelist,linguistic and critic J.M.Coetzee.  "Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt"   - J.M.Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians  Waiting for Barbarians is not that much fantastic novel which deals with magical realism and so on but it can be considered as fable of post-colonial literature as well as it can also be viewed as within the context of the development of literary allegory. It is the story of people who are considered as 'Other' by civilized people. Once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the bar...

Welcome Readers! This blog is a part of thinking activity assisgened in classroom Click Here to know more about it..                                "The White Tiger" "The White Tiger"   is a debut novel written by Indian author Arvind Adiga ,  was published in 2008 and won the 40 th Man Booker Prize in the same year as well. This ground breaking Epistolary novel moves further with the binary narrative of Indian society in a letter from having seven chapters, which is a hard hitting on the naked reality of India, striking in different cultures and compromises two faces, brighter and darker side of India in a term of exploitation of various sections in rising India through the character of Balram Halwai- a modern Indian hero. His views on rich and poor India get more crystal clear when Arvind Adiga quotes, “The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor-...