Aeshvariyam Youth Festival 2018

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University has organized Youth Festival 26-27-28 Oct 2018. This Youth Festival host is ‘Takshsila institude of Science and Management’. Normally Youth Festival is for Students, Students are participant and show his/ her abilities, skills.

Generally Youth Festival is for entertainment, enjoyment, shown the skill and abilities of students but as a student of English Literature and criticism, Dr. Dilip Barad sir has given a task to observing the events and apply the Terms and theory on the event. Like,

1.   One Act Play/Skit :

 Aristotle’s Poetics

 Dryden’s Definition of Play

 Martin Esslin’s Theatre of Absurd

 Davin Compton’s Comedy of Menace

 Approaches, (Feminism, Psychoanalysis, cultural studies, biographical approach, Mirroring of the moment etc)

2.   Mono Acting

Thematic study,

Mythical characters,

Historical

3.  Poetry Recitation

Theory of Coleridge (Poem v/s Poetry & Imagination, Fancy)

Wordsworth’s definition (Spontaneity & Simplicity)

T.S. Eliot (Theory of Depersonalization)

I.A. Richards (Figurative Language)

Cleanth Brooks (language of Paradox)

Deconstruction

4.   Lalit Kala

Thematic study

Political satire

Mirroring of contemporary society

Post Modernist painting

Traditional v/s modern

Thus sir has given us the real test of our observation power, literary sensibility and our skills to apply classroom learning in real life situation. As we learn English Literature and criticism last 4 or 5 years, we learnt many theories and approaches, terms and many other thing in those days. So as student of literature we have to apply all the theories, terms and approach in real life. I am very excited to apply all the theories and term to this events but somehow I could not observing all the events, but here I try to apply all the theories and approach in my personal observation of society and some personal also. Let’s begin with the Youth Festival,

1)  One Act Play/Skit

I have observing only two play. One is ‘Sikka ni triji baji’ and second I forget it name. Sikka ni Triji Baju is the satire on society. Society is abusing the third Gender, they does not accept the Kenner. It is not a tragedy that we can apply the theory of Aristotle. But I have seen the another play, ‘Adhuri Tasvir’ where we can apply this theory. The prince is fall in love with the servant, she also the servant of the king so she have good reputation in the town. The prince came his uncle kingdom, and there he met the chandrakala (servant) and fall in love. The prince is good in painting, and write a poem. When his uncle know about his love with his servant, He killed Chandrakala. Before killing the prince is drawing her painting. but the painting still remaining, the prince became a mad and chandrakala came (Ghost) and give a chance to complete her painting. The end of the play Prince has died with painting. This play follow all the six elements of tragedy like Plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle and song also.

According to John Dryden, “Drama is a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humors and the changes of fortune to which it is subject for the delight and instruction of mankind”.  This definition I would like to apply in our Department’s performance, ‘Sikka ni Triji Baju’. According to Dryden the Drama is a just and lively images of human nature, which we also find that in this play, the Kenner is the represented the real situation of human mind and also nature. ‘Rekha’ is the main character of the play who is kinner or the third gender. This play made a ‘just and lively image which is Dryden talk about. When the third gender born the society does not accepted it so they make their society, like Rekha, kajal. When it born the kinner came and take it, why because of the society, the parents of the kinner, they want to live with it but the society force to leave it as Rekha’s parents leave him. However Rekha does not feel he is nothing or he is a third gender person but he believe that it’s a God’s Gift. Live a life with passion, he does not believe that it is a weak point. the subject of the play really given biggest moral. if we want to apply the Feminist criticism, we find the both of the example like they give freedom and also Ligation of family. In this play the character likes Sarda (Mother of tusar), Alpa (Sister of tusar) both are free to do as they want and the character of Mina (Wife of Tusar) is in ligation, she cannot take a decision. She wants to live with Kiran (Third Gender’s child)but Sarda and tusar doesnot want. Here we can also see some events of Rekha’s past (Psychoanalysis) like when he is in childhood his parents left him without telling him. This events was in his unconscious mind which he suffered a lot. This play is reflection of society of course today Government gives Rights for third gender but somehow this decision became a fail to real society (Rights of 377) still society does not give priority to it, still they does not want to give him employment, job etc. As I say I saw two Plays, which one is connected to historical concept.

Second thing I did not attended the Mono Acting or the poetry recitation. So could not interpret it with the critical approaches and terms. But here I would like to interpret my own poem. According to Wordsworth, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”, in this definition Wordsworth define two contradiction, like ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling, and another side ‘emotion recollected in tranquility’. it means the poet would then express those powerful impressions spontaneously with ease and felicity without any imposition of restriction in point of language or poetic diction. Immediate impression has a blending of both important and unimportant impression. When they allowed to rest for some time, only the important impression remain in the memory, and unimportant ones was away. In this Youth festival we find that (I take a review form participant of Poetry recitation) the poets are not write effective poem immediately. As a rule of Youth Festival. Participant should be written in limited time. So we can say that we cannot apply this definition of this event. But we can appy T. S. Eliot’s theory of Depersonalization. Because somehow poet apply his own life experience to his works, whatever in form, like my first published work ‘Drasti; Ashatitv ni khari anubhuti’, When I got this idea form Dilip sir (teach us Feminism), and also Ganesh Mahotsv (Svk), during the Mahotsav I have been going to see to the Ganesha and there I see theboard, where written the Women are not allow to enter, who wear a Jeans Top (Western cloths)  and many other thing. When I was going to Rajkot for migration, I started to write, I did not want to apply this insult to my work, I only want to write on feminism. When I have completed it I saw the my personal experience are mingled with my story, it is not only about my experience but every poets/ writers.

I have also attended the Mime, which I saw two or three mine, normally mime is the well performance because it leaves to audience to interpret and understood their self. The second thing is that most of the theme of mine is the current problem like Child abuse, Machines etc. As I also attended Western Group song and also Quiz. I have attended some parts of the Youth festival but I tried to observe all the things/ events very critical.

Thus, I attended the three day Youth festival in Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. This is my observation of Youth festival, and tries to interpretation.