Sunday, 24 December 2017

Can Technology replace teacher ?

                                                                   

Hello Readers

Hold on for a second and imagine (I’m telling you to imagine because we human’s are very good at imagining things😉) a world without technology. We can’t imagine a day without our smart phone, how can we imagine world without technology right?

Since from the beginning of twentieth century with the help of every single invention dream became true and now today the world is on our finger. Life became easy with the help of technology.

When we are talking about technology how can we forget to mention Google right?

You can go anywhere; see anything from any corner of the world only with one tap on search button. Google is just like a water tap, water is there but it comes to you when you open the tap, it becomes the source. Just like that knowledge is there, where Google becomes source to reach that ocean of knowledge.

Learning becomes more tranquil with the help of technology. Traditional setup in education is breaking down. you don’t have to attain any university or have to remain present in class. One can learn anything from any corner of the world sitting comfortably in sofa with coffee in his/her hand. Does it mean that technology will replace teacher in future. Answer would be YES because it has started happening in real.

 If you have seen robot movie, which was originally made in Tamil language entitled as Enthiran is a science fiction movie. story revolves around Vaseegaran and his creation Chitti. Chitti's software was updated to give it special ability to comprehend and exhibit human emotions.in movie we find that he  can do almost everything, he cooks delicious food at Sana's home as a experienced chef and by reading Sana's textbook he helps doctor in child birth. you think that it can only happen in movie but it is happening in real world. To view some job where robot already started replacing humans clike here  


An educational robot called Pepper will be the UK's first automated teacher when it enters classrooms at the London Design and Engineering University Technical College in September 2016. The meter-high robot, which already 'teaches' at a school in Japan, is fitted with microphones, HD cameras and 3D sensors to enable it to interact with students and even detect their emotions.                              


                                                 
“One machine can do work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do work of one extraordinary man.”
                                                     - Elbert Hubbard

Technology helps in learning and role of teacher is reduced. It is both T+T (Teacher+Technology). Teacher’s part becomes imperative when it comes to bring technology in classroom and how to use it in learning. even when we do not update are phone's software then it is of no use.just like that teachers have make themselves updated with time,Teachers have to stay updated with today’s trend and equip themselves with the latest technology and that's  how teacher's role becomes essential in today’s time. if teacher would not make themselves to come out from traditional teaching zone then sooner or latter their place will be replaced by Roboteacher.

Monday, 16 October 2017



Midnight’s children movie review

This blog is part of my classroom activity, this is my personal blog and point I have given here is my personal POV , I’m neither against nor in favor of anything my request to reader is not to it take personally.

                                                   



Being a part of East or Third world country I would like to do postcolonial study(sorry for being bit personal) because once we were colonized by British people so that you( Instead of you I should say 'I' ) love to do post colonial studies because it is deeply rooted in our subconscious.

                                                    
Here I would review the move ‘The midnight’s children’ with the help of postcolonial perspective.

Movie is based on Salman Rushdie’s Midnight children.

First Ahmed (Mumtaz’s second husband) gives a new name Amina to Mumtaz after their Marriage. It sounds very colonial that after marriage you have control over your wife. It is consciously or unconsciously gets reflected by female director. Mumtaz accepts the new name happily because you are so much colonized and it is so deep inside you that you don’t even realize that you are being colonized and you don’t deny accepting a new identity given by a colonizer.

Nurse changes child because her lover Joseph said so. Joseph said that by changing the fortune of these two children it will be a revolutionary step. Again religion plays vital role to prove my arguments. A Christian ( No offense) is changing fortune and considers it as a revolutionary step.

When Saleem came to India we saw slum area and poor people, snake charmer, Parvati doing black magic shows backwardness of India. At the same time they show nuclear experiment of 1974 which shows progress of India.

These are some of my post colonial interpretations on this movie.







The Reluctant fundamentalist movie review

                                                               



This blog is part of my classroom activity, this is my personal blog and point I have given here is my personal POV , I’m neither against nor in favor of anything my request to reader is not to it take personally.




Directed by :- Mira Nair

Produced by:- Lydia Dean Pilcher

Written by:-    Mohsin Hamid , Ami Boghani

Screenplay by: - William Wheeler , Rutvik Oza

Based on:- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Starring:-

Riz Ahmed

Kate Hudson

Liev Schreiber

Meesha Shafi

Kiefer Sutherland
(wikipedia)




The reluctant fundamentalist is a story of a young and talented man named Changez Khan who have many desire but soon his desire to achieve his dreams collapse like a castle of cards after 9/11 event. He suffers because of his identity as a khan as a Muslim and specially as a Pakistani and soon he left the city of his desire.


How his life changes after 9/11 attack:-

First when Changez returns from a business trip and there were other colleague also with him, police asks his name and after seeing his name as ‘khan’ in his passport they take him for an inquiry an asks him to take off all his cloths, we can’t describe the feeling and thought was going on in Changez’s mind at that time. There were no words from him he does this silently but we can feel it threw his facial expression that some is going on in his mind. 'My Name is Khan' is best example here; how he suffers because of his identity as a khan.




After this in his office his colleague who ones were good friends of him are not talking to him after 9/11 attack except one who is a black person. Shows friendship between a black and a Muslim or say Pakistani.


His girlfriend Erica uses their intimate details that once ‘I was with a Pakistani’ and he ends the relation with her after that.

After returning to Pakistan he starts serving as a professor at Lahore University. Anse Raviner an American professor at Lahore University is kidnapped and Boby who is an American journalist and undercover CIA informant in Pakistan Arranges to interview Changez khan who is colleague of Rainer, whom he suspects is involved in the kidnapping.

Soon Rainer was killed and Boby receives image of Rainer dead at a same time Changez was texting someone and Boby becomes suspicious and in hurry he jumps to conclusion that Changez killed Rainer and Boby shoots one of Changez’s student soon Boby comes to know that Changez was actually texting his sister.

Thing is that person was bracketed as Pakistani not as human. being as an Orientalist Edward Said in his book says that Orientalist argues against how east portrays west. Same generalization is made here also that all Muslims are terrorist. people become suspicious when you introduce yourself as ‘Khan’. I will conclude with a point that the act of suppressing someone constantly without any reason will lead person to do some thing bad.



Sunday, 17 September 2017




The birthday party Play by Harold Pinter

click here to view scenes from the movie, you can download the text and can attend the quiz also.

· Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?
Two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie. this movie is based on an unpublished screenplay by Harold Pinter, which he adapted from his own play The Birthday party. so we can say that he don't wanted to divert audience's attention from Stanley. may be he don't wanted to give unnecessary importance to Lulu's character. she came on,y when it was needed in last act.
Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie?Where you able to feel the same while reading the text



yes, movie is successful enough in giving s the effect of menace. i would say that movie gives more effect than text, because in text you have to read while in movie visual and sounds plays vital role in giving the effect pf menace. there is one line that


"silence speaks louder than words" but i would say that here in movie "sound speaks more than words". knocking on door, sound of drum, tearing of newspaper by McCain in second act these sounds make us feel uneasy.

Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text
Yes, when Stanley plays drum very aggressively, knocking on door and in birthday party when blind man's buff is going on.
What do you read in 'newspaper' in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by Petey in last scene.

newspaper have its own  significance in the play. Petey is reading newspaper which shows power or higher position in front of his wife Meg or it can be read like he is hiding his reality behind the newspaper. newspaper was torn away by McCain and Petey is hiding it's pieces which shows his fear about falling down his mask which he was hiding behind the newspaper he is hiding the reality of Stanley that he was also torn by two strangers
Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera?
Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it, it shows that Stanley cannot escape from the trap of cage created by two stranger.

"Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles." (Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: Excerpts from the 2005 Nobel Lecture). Does this happen in the movie?
Yes, people have the mercy of one another. Petey, Meg , and Lulu have mercy towards Stanley.
How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics (like painteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?
Yes, definitely movie help in better understanding of the play. visual and sounds played vital role in better understanding of pause, silence, menace and lurking danger.
With which of the following observations you agree:



o “It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."


o “It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin”[3].


I would agree with second observation.
If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?
I won't make any difference.
Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?
My choice of actors would be like this
Petey: Naseeruddin Shah
Meg: Farida Jalal
Nat Goldberg: Nawazuddin Siddiqui
McCain:K.K.Menon
Stanley: Rajkumar Rao
Lulu: Radhika Apte.


Thank you.












Thursday, 31 August 2017

waiting for Godot


 

Here is the link of given task on the play waiting for Godot click here


Here is my response to the given questions

Q: what connection do you see in the setting (‘A country road. A tree evening.’) Of the play and these paintings?

The setting of the play is inspired by painting ‘longing’ by two paintings by Caspar David Freidrich. Act of waiting can be considered as act of longing.

Q: the tree is the only important ‘thing’ in the setting. What is the importance of tree in both acts? Why does Beckett grow a few leaves in Act II on the barren tree?

Tree has its own importance in setting.  In first act tree is barren. Barren tree can be seen as hopelessness and nothingness, Vladimir and Estragon thinks to hanging themselves from tree which can be seen a reference to the crucifixion of Christ. In Act two leaves sprouts from tree which shows hope for the next. Found happiness out of despair and anxiety of human life.

Q:  in both Acts, evening falls into night and moon rises. How would you like to interpret this ‘coming of night and moon’ when actually they are waiting for Godot?

Evening falls into night and moon rises signifies that universe is indifferent to us.  Whatever happens in human life despair, anxiety, absurdity; nature’s cycle goes on.

Q: the play begins with the dialogue” nothing to be done”. How does the theme of ‘nothingness’ recurs in play?

Nothingness recurs in the play. Vladimir and Estragon have nothing to do expect waiting. And that’s why Vladimir says this line ‘nothing to be done’.

Q:  do you agree:”the play (waiting for Godot), we agreed, was a positive play, not negative, not pessimistic. As I saw it, with my blood and skin and eyes, the philosophy is: ‘no matter what- bombs, anything-life goes on. You can kill yourself, but you can’t kill life’.(E.G. marshal who played Vladimir in original Broadway production 1950s).

The play is positive play. Play is not absurd but rather meaningful.  Only dialogue are going on but that is only common conversation, at first reading we may not find it that much meaningful but find it meaningful at deep inside. Waiting signifies hope; process of waiting is process of keeping hope towards something to be achieved.

Q: How are the props like hat and boots used in the play? What is the symbolical significances of these props?

Hat signifies Vladimir’s capacity of thinking who remembers every event of past where as boots signifies skepticism in character of Estragon. He is taking his boot on and off Who forgets things very easily, carelessness towards life.

Q: do you feel the effect of existential crisis or meaninglessness of human existence in the irrational and indifference universe during screening of the move? Where and when exactly that feeling was felt, ever it was? Vladimir and estragon talks about ‘hanging’ themselves and commit suicide, but they do not do so. How do you read this idea of suicide in existentialism?

Yes I do feel effect of existential crisis during screening of the movie; when the sentence is repeatedly said that “nothing to be done” we feel meaninglessness of human existence. Vladimir and Estragon talks about ‘hanging’ themselves and commit suicide but they do not do so rather they come again and starts waiting. Here we find out the existential idea that true challenge is when you face despair, absurdity and anxiety of human life and come that absurdity rather ending your life by committing suicide. In movie Mera nam joker there is a song “
                                                         
                                       जीना यहाँ, मरना यहाँ
                                       à¤‡à¤¸à¤•े सिवा जाना कहाँ  - 



We are born here, we will die here where we will go from here(nothing can be done)In this movie Raj kapoor is playing role of joker is life is full of despair but every day comes in front of people to make them laugh by playing the role of joker in circus he is doing his duty same as Sisyphus.


Q: The subject of the play is not Godot but waiting. Do you agree? How can you justify your answer?

The subject of the play is not Godot but ‘Waiting’. Waiting can be seen different by person by person. Waiting can be seen as death.. Waiting can be seen as desire to complete, for a spiritual person it can be ultimate way of salvation.

Thank you 😊😊😊




Sunday, 6 August 2017

To the light house

This blog  is part of  my classroom thinking activity on the novel 'To The Lighthouse'.
Here is the given task:click here








 

1) Beauty of the novel ‘To the lighthouse’ is human nature and human relations. Writer has not told story in traditional way of describing events but she has concentrated on a small number of characters with their interior monologue. In this novel nothing happens, there are no events only stream of consciousness goes on and on. Use of parentheses say for example James wishes to visit the lighthouse but Mr. Ramsay strongly opposes because of bad weather thus James feels:


“Had there been an axe handy or any other weapon, he would have gashed a hole in his father’s breast…”


This is the inner feeling of James when Mr. Ramsay refused to go. This is how Woolf has made use of parentheses throughout which we came to know that what character thinks at particular time and situation.


2) The novel is both the tribute and critique of Mrs. Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is a tribute as well as critique on womanhood. She is caring and kind who pampers her husband’s ego. Taking care of everyone. Woman full of good-will and no ill-will. Mrs. Ramsay’s character is like a character of आज्ञाकारी and संस्कारी बहू we see in Indian daily soaps. According to her she is happier than Lily because she herself is married while she considers Lily as Poor. She repeats the sentence time and again open ‘Open the window and close the doors’- which signifies that allowing yourself to think but close the door means closing the wider way for change or say not allowing yourself for change.
Both Lily and Mrs. Ramsay’s character presents different personality of womanhood. If we look from modern perspective toward the character we consider Lily’s character more independent.

5) Kunstlerroman means apprenticeship novel that deals with the youth and development of an individual who becomes and on threshold of becoming a painter musician or poet. Throughout the novel if we read Lily’s character she develops as a painter. In the third part she completes the painting of Mrs. Ramsay, and finally she has had her own vision. Same as Augustus Carmichael he is also a poet who is unknown chapter one but his poetry meets unexpected success afterwards. So both the characters develop: one as a painter and another as a poet.

9) On one hand it is a tool for preservation. Against that is also a symbol of change of technology, changing and presumably improving human culture. James is guided in his choice by Mrs. Ramsay and it should therefore be associated with her role as preserver and shaper of culture.Traditional woman who is not allowing the change, and preserver of old tradition.

10) Virginia Woolf with the use of fairy tale subverting the misogyny of the fairy tale. Fairy tale in novel challenges the myth about female desire and dangers of unopposed female will and desire. The real danger seems to be male needs and desire. 

Thank you...😊

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

movie review


As a  master students we are studying modern literature, and as a part of our study we have watched two of Charlie Chaplin movies and in both of these movies Charlie Chaplin had worked as director and producer and actor it is interesting to see that how he satirized things in a comic way.

(1)    Modern time:-Modern time is a story of individual enterprise humanly crusading in the pursuit of happiness. Charlie played a role of factory worker and how he was living his everyday life in a factory like a machine and he gone crazy because of his everyday work. On other hand gamin’s (Paulette Goddard) character represents poverty of 20th century era, when writer were interested in poor and working class. How Chaplin and gamin’s father suffered from unemployment. At that time it was fiction having machinery like that but now in present time  it is reality, slowly and steadily machine started to replace humans, we can put question that whether humans have control over machine or machine have control over humans?
(2 )    The great dictator:-The great dictator is political satire on Adolf Hitler. This is story of a period between two world wars. The story is based on Hynked looking like a Jewish barber who was also a soldier and lose his memory in plane crash. 





      Thank You .......😊

Monday, 26 June 2017



Modern Age:-

Modernism doesn’t speak about contemporary time; but about past time, prim time of modernism is between first war and second war world war (1940-50).questioning everything was important in modernism.


Here is my interpretation on some modernist poems, which is part of my classroom activity.



(1) The Embankment :-T.E.Hulme


Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,


In the flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.


Now see I


That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy.


Oh, God, make small


The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,


That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.


Poet is recounting his past by using the words like finesse of fiddles, musical gathering and flash of gold heels used for women star-eaten blanket is used as negative word. But now what all he need is warmth; which he will get under the blanket of sky where he will get comfort, comfort from the harshness of life.

(2) Darkness:- Joseph Campbell

Darkness.
I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole –
A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.
I look at it, and pass on.


Title itself reflects negativity. Here star is metaphor, by which poet actually means Victorian age , he is not affected with the shine of Victorian age, he just looked at it and pass on.

(3) Image :- Edward storer

Forsaken lovers,
Burning to a chaste white moon,
Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought.


By the title of this poem may be poet wanted to present image of modern age people. White color presents positivity but here it seems in negative sense. Other metaphor are loneliness and drought.



(4) In a station of the metro:- Ezra pound


THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;


Petals on a wet, black bough.



Title itself says that its about Metro. Poet sees various faces and gives it metaphor ‘apparition’. This means ghostly. He compares these faces to ‘petals on a wet black bough”- suggests that on the dark subway platform, the people look like flower petal stuck on tree branch after a rainy night.


(5) The Pool:- Hilda Doolittle 

Are you alive?


I touch you.


You quiver like a sea-fish.


I cover you with my net.


What are you—banded one?


speaker asking person that ‘are you alive?. Person shivers like a sea fish.


which indicates that someone is dying and presents liflessness.


(6) Insouciance:- Richard Aldington

IN and out of the dreary trenches,

Trudging cheerily under the stars,

I make for myself little poems

Delicate as a flock of doves.

They fly away like white-winged doves.


Here poet have used metaphors like deary trnches, trudging cheerily flock of doves, white winged doves.






(7) Moring at the window- T.S.Eliot

They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.

The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.




At first reading of this poem way feel that this poem is about everyday life. But we also can say that this line:- ‘” tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts.”


(8) The Red Wheelbarrow – William carol Williams

so much depends
upon
a red wheel 
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens

This poem is difficult to understand. But f we go on by words like Barrow(stones raised over a grave) Glazed (showing no liveliness) chicken(young man); these words indicates a young man’s death.


(9) Anecdote of the jar:- Wallace stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.


It made the slovenly wilderness


Surround that hill.


The wilderness rose up to it,


And sprawled around, no longer wild.


The jar was round upon the ground


And tall and of a port in air.


It took dominion everywhere.


The jar was gray and bare.


It did not give of bird or bush,


Like nothing else in Tennessee.


Here in this poem metaphor is jar. And poem is about the Tennessee( a state of the united states of America)

(10) I(a, :- E.E.Cummings

l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness



A falling leaf is symbol of loneliness. The word ‘fall’ symbolized in any way. Fall means death, fall of spirituality; fall word also presents the damage caused because of world war and its effect on people.
Modernist literature is difficult to understand, it is absurd, there is hidden meaning, it becomes hard to get the whole meaning of poem.


Thank you....























Friday, 19 May 2017

La Belle dame sans merci


La Belle Dame sans merci is ballad written by well known poet of romantic age John Keats. love and death are intertwined in 'Isabella or the pot of basil','Bright star','the eve of st Agnes' and ' la belle dame sans merci'.
The Fatal women; the woman whom it is destructive to love, like Salome,Lilith and Cleopatra appears in "La Belle Dame sans merci".

The poem opens with an unnamed speaker asking a knight at arms what troubles him. the night tells his strange story. he met a young beautiful woman in the flowering field, who in real is a femme fatal. the knight  came under her influence, perhaps hypnotized by her powerful eyes. he was not able to understand her language, they communicate in other ways. he made a garland of flowers a bracelet and a belt and set her on his warhorse.she found strange food for him. she took him to a cave,where weeping and singing knight fell asleep, he was shaken by terrible dreams of knight , princes and warrior him that he was enslaved by the beautiful lady awakening from the nightmare, the knight found himself  on  the cold  hillside alone and the beautiful lady had disappeared.
  

Yussouf



Yussouf is poem by Jame Russell Lowell. This is poem about Yussouf, who is kind at nature. tribes called him "The Good".


Only a stranger came to Yussouf's tent at night and said that he outcasted. one who needed help and he came to Yussouf for shelter and food.


Yussouf treet him as his honored guest. next day in morning Yussouf gave him gold and told that he has best horse ready for him, and told to escape before his enemies come. stranger fell at feel of Yussouf and said that he is the one who killed Yussouf's son. he was shocked but after that he drew out more gold. he give it to stranger. and said that "here is gold three time more".


Yussouf said that I must give up the thought of revenge. Only then my son will sleep in peace.you have been my guest and i can not kill my guest, and he went off to pray god.

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Monday, 20 March 2017

Deconstruction

Hello readers
Here i'm sharing my views on Derrida's deconstruction.

Like all other terms deconstruction cannot be defined once and all finally. Derrida himself refuses to define the term.
Deconstruction is not destructive activity but an inquiry in to the foundation, causes of intellectual system.
the very conditions Derrida argues is based on distinctions on Binary oppositions.




                                                                                                                                                                    In this video you will find the binary opposition like Superior / Inferior, Master / slave, poor/rich , light / dark. the main idea of this advertisement is after eating this chewing gum you will get sparkling white.but if look according Derradian concept of deconstruction it is breaking the idea of  light or white. all these men are serving in royal palace to give light. at first look we din't get this.but after reading Derrida this ad present opposite binares.



Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Narrative technique



Here I have tried to analyze two Disney fairy tales with the help of structuralism approach and analyzed Barfi movie with help of five concepts of narrative discourse given by Gerard Genette.
Dictionary meaning: A critical discipline which studies a text in relation to other known elements. Including knowledge of author, contemporaneous culture, literary conventions and facts not mentioned in the text but known to intended readers in addition to the text itself.
According to structuralist critic, they believed that in every literature structure is same but it is presented in different manner. Whether it is love story, tragedy or revenge story.
We all are aware about Disney fairy tales Cinderella, snow white and seven dwarves, sleeping beauty etc.In sleeping Beauty we find that Aurora has been cursed that when Aurora pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and die. When Aurora pricks her fingers she falls into


a deep sleep. She can only awaken from if she is kissed by her own true love.
Snow white and seven dwarves:  In this story snow white falls unconscious with one bite of poisoned apple. She lays sleeping over years; her prince arrives eventually to wake her from her slumber. We can see that in these stories prince comes to rescue his princess, structure is same but presented differently.
 
I have done analysis of Barfi movie according to five concepts of Gerard Gennets narrative discourse. Story is in flashback technique. From present time narrator takes us into past.
Order:  In this movie kidnapping occurs rather than murder. A circumstance of Jhilmil’s (Priyanka Chopra) kidnapping is revealed and police thought it was Barfi (Ranbir Kapoor) but  we came to know that kidnapper is not Barfi but it is Jhilmil’s Father.
Frequency is singular.
Duration:  There are two times separation happens between two events. First it is of six years and then again it is of seven years gape.
Voice: voice is concern with narrator there is Intra Diegetic narration. Narrator is Sudhanshu Dutt- who is local police officer in this movie.
This is how I have tried to analyze the movie with the help of structuralist approach.