Dr. J.H. Khan

Interaction with J.H. Khan

Department of English has organized guest lecture for students. On 16 to 18 August, Department of English invited Dr. Javed Hussain Khan and mandaliya sirs. J. H. Khan sir dealt with the ELT and Mandaliya sir dealt with Metaphysical Poetry. We had a lecture of Khan sir, His teaching styles really amazing. We had discussion on several topics. He said that “We keep on competing with ourselves” and he called students as a “Young India”. He also shared information about Net/Slet Exams.

In his first interaction on English language teaching, he talk about diffrence of teaching english, English  as native langage and english as a Forign language, both should have different needs and different ways to learn and teach. He taught us that how to articulated sound in language and in language thir is different parts of it . he also included what is general English and what is English for specific purposes, communication it is a ta to perform. There is difference between ESP and EAP and the information about semantics and pragmatics. He has influence on English language and he says that Language is a social institution and it is a product of culture.

·       Teaching style and our Experience

He is very good and knowledgeable person. I have got the idea about ELT that how that is different from other, how can I explain it in exam. He taught that if you will worl hard definitely you will get success in life, only  you have burning desire for that whatever you want. He mentioned this sentence manier ‘nothing is impossible’’ he has much knowledge about ELT. Javed sir’s 3days class will also helpful for my exam. I can explain it properly, concept of Elt and other things are cler in my mind. I have learnt so many things are clear in my mind.

Thank you.

The Birthday Party

Q-1 Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?

In this movie I found two scene of Lulu. To give the particular shap to the work also writer may be prefer to include extra things and reduce something that burden the content part of the work. Another point, I think of lulu’s personality that has no such significance to carry out the flow further with some special effect. Sometimes it happens that some scenes are relevant to the film that’a why it remains in the film. There is nothinf deep into ansence of some scene from the text or on the movie. It is just because Director can’t omit thise sceene from the film bexause somehow ir showa human nature, characteristic and xonditon of the society in that time.

Q-2 Is movie successful in giving us the effext of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text ?

We can seee the effect od menace in the movie because while reading the play we can sense that Stanley has a musterious past which we are mpt omformend about. I felt this while reading the lonf conversation between McCann, Stanley and Goldberg.

Q-3 Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie ? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text.

I feel the lurking danger whenthe scene of strangers come in Meg and Petey’s house. Standley ask some question of meg, why are they coming here ? who are two strangers ? so I feel two are danger for the Standley. I feel lurking danger, somethinf will happen, this party is going to end very bad, very danger.

Q-4 What do you read I ‘newspaper’ in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, piexes are hidden by Petey in last scene.

Basically newspaper is symbol of connectivity between an individual and outer world, but here in this play it also gives the remembrance to Petey for his impotency by  Meg’s insistence to him for repeatedly reading the incident regarding the greagility of a woman. Moreober it is torn into pieces by McCann. And in last scene his afotd has been hidden by Peetey. He tries to hide the whole incident.

Q-5 Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man’s Buff and is positioned at the tom=p with a view of room like a cage when Standley is playind it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of Camera?

Camera is play vital role in this play in these position od camera. Standley  and McCan wants to coness the truth from Standley so both are planing to trap Standley with game of blind’s buff.

Q-7 If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?

Movie is perfect so in the movie I do not change anything..

Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?

Standley – Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Petey – Anupam Kher

Mag  - Shabana Azmi

Goldberg – Monoj Bajpai

McCan – Ifran Khan

Lulu – Huma

Guest Lecture by Pro. Balaji Ranganathan

14-16 Sept. 2018, Department of English has organized three day guest lecture of Dr. Balaji Ranganathan. In these days he dealt with Paper of Postcolonialiam. He taught us,

1)  Black Skin White Mask

2)  Orientalism

3)  A tempest

4)  Imaginary Hamelands

5)  Net- Slet Remedial class

First he discussed about the ‘Black Skin white mask’, its eight chapters. He taught its chapters very uniqueness and gave fantastic examples. He said that white man sealed inhis whiteness and black man sealed in his blackness, your color is biologicall so you’re observed by not your skin but your culture. Second he said that Fanon talk about sexuality as base in human nature, then he talk about the inferiority complex. How color of skin is natural but it becomes cultural. How white people think about black people.

Second He discussed about the ‘Orientalism’ and ‘A templest’ by Aime Cesaire. He explained the unit orientalism very well and provide some good information about India’s Condition before independence and after independence. He tought us about  ‘A tempest’ by Amie Cesaire make us understand the difference between ‘The tempest’ by Shakespeare and ‘A tempest’ by Amie Cesaire and also adivice to read original text. Then he talk about how to bet Net and Slet or compititive exam. And also talk about ‘Imaginary Homeland’ by Salman Rusdie.

Thank you

Orientalism

1)  Orientalism helps to create and shape entire new fields. It also used in English, history, anthropology, political science and cultural studies. It gives deep information of people of middle east people about their culture and behaviour. We come to know about them yet we never meet. Orientalism questions the reasons behind the impression of any community or nation as a bad and why the whole community and nation have to suffer because of the mistakes of one or two groups from that community.

2)  In Western Countries, the representation of East by media was in such a way that all western people were thinking about Eastern people as a Black magicians and mysterious people. They were not aware of the culture of East and that is why they have considered it as mysterious place, the word ‘mysterious’ itself creates the feeling or horror. So as a result the human side of Islamic and especially Arab world are rarely found in any Western country’s movies and in people’s mindset. Orientalism is the creates an image outside of history of something that is placid and still and eternal. Which is simply contradicted by the fact of history.

3)  Said’s analysis of Orientalism is not just a description of its content but a sustained argument for why it looks the way it does. it’s an examination of the quite concrete, historical and institution context that creates it. Specifically Said locates the construction of orientalism within the history of Imperial conquest.

4)  The difference between British and French Orientalism on the one hand and the American experience of the Orient on the other is that the American one is more indirect, much more based on abstractions’ in the past, British and Franch orientalism is direct and how the American Orientalism is indirect. It question the power system in terms of media, popular culture and globalization.

5)  Gramsci says, ‘therefore the task at the outset, is to try to compile an inventory’, in other words to try and make sense of it, and this seems to me to be the most interesting sort of human task. It’s a task of giving history some shape and sense, for a particular reason, not just to show that my history is better than your or my history is worse than yours. I am a victim and you are somebody who’s oppressed people or so on, but rather, to understand my history in terms of other people’s history, in other words to try to understand, to move beyond, to generalize one’s own individual experience to the experience of others and I think the great goal is in fact to become someone else.”

Shashi Tharoor (sunday reading)

Shasi tharoor is an Indian politician, writer. Shashi Tharoor is member of Parliament, he given postcolonial argument. He written a book on that ‘An Era of Darknes’. He asserts that Britishers are not developers of any colonies. According to him real thugs of Hindustan are Britishers, in the time of free trade they are looting the Indians. Many Indian words they take dictionary, in this way the word loot is a Hindi word and they taking the word in their dictionary. In this way he try so make a satire on make a satire on British Empire. During his nearly three decade long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker and administrator at the highest levels serving as Under secretary general during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organization.

We see that damage economical, psychological and also human lives in India by British. The huge massacre at Jaliyanwala bagh, which no one can forget. This is just a instant memory, there is much more than this. Shashi says, Indians do have tac system but it is liberal, like when there is draught, at that time peasants got relaxation from tax but Brits are not like that. What British does is they broke the trade which was practiced in India. India’s cloths, he gave two name of city Dhaka and Murshidabad, both are famous for their cloths but Brits take all raw to England make cloths there and tell it to India in double prize they have sold Indians their good with double Prize.

British flourished textile company in India by ‘made in India’ hallmark of high quality. That is private profit of English and public risk of Indian. Many Indians died because of them. During second world war in the great Bengal phenomenon, 4 million people died because of churchill’s decision of splay and policies. For them Bengali metters less. They are colonial enterprise only creates violence and racism. In India 15 to 20 % people died by starvation. He gave example of Begal family. During the Second World War 4 million people died because of starvation. Britishers make money from the poor Indians by various kind of taxes and make their own country rich, day by day.

Thus, we can say that Tharoor’s arguments makes good sense regarding the reparation. Because India was reach before the arrival of British and without the Britisher Indi can progress.

Waiting For Godot

Ans:  This painting suggest the hope with symbols of country road and tree. Longing can be connected with ‘waiting’ the road and tree presented the idea of barrenness the symbol of the country road indicates the absurdity, nothingness.

Ans: Important of tree; with the two sides of perspective , first positive side, where barren tree of very initial act become growing in the second one that may shows the sign of Godot’s coming it may be the sign of hope. In another side it is nature rule, it has nothing. Another interpretation of some  new growing bud can be as the sign of better condition of human beings after time passes though they are victimized from war.

Ans: Evening falls into night and moon rises, Night means End of the days,  Moon rises’it is showing time passing very quickly but their hope doesnot die. Night and Day is like Aggrivement and Enjoyment. We write that nature never wait for anyone, anythings, it goes on….

Ans : In the movie version director showing debris. It likes absurdity and human predicament also debris is totally useless but it will be recycle. So the director vision to show that kind of both characters are debris kind of lifestyle because they are useless.

Ans : Samuel Backett comes with idea of ‘Nothingness’, but it leads to the something else. Play opens with ‘Nothing to be done’. But here nothingness is means something to be done but somethind did not done, so Nothing itself is action. There is no motivated action, the sense of nothingness play the pivotal role in determining the every aspect of the play. So Nothingness creates everything in ‘Waiting for Godot’.

Ans : Yes, I agree with the positivity of the this play because they are waiting for Godot nothind happen in entire play only wait for Godot same it is related with universal idea for cycle of birth, death, rebirth and waitinf for hope everyone what ever they do ultimately they are doing wait for death.

Ans : in this play boot symbolizing carelessness and irresponsible lifestyle of person toward society.

Ans : According to me; Godot is the an object of desire. We constantly thinking about the meaning of life. We want to achieve goals, becomes successful. But the ultimate we are waiting for death, so everyone wanted we all are become free from the meaningless life. The Godot is our medium to reach the celestial city, which is the journey of body to soul.

Ans:Yes we can interpret the political reading in which Vladimir stand for Russia, Pozzo stand for Italy, Lucky for England and Estragon stand for France. So we can connect this to the world war in which these all countries destroyed by Godot means Germany. (Hitler) In this play Vladimir asked boy that ‘Godot beating’ the boy replied ‘yes’. So we connect Godot with Hitler, who destroyed many countries and killed thousand of Pozzo and Lucky.

Ans : In the both acts boy and Vladimir do same conversation. In act 1 Vladimir told boy to tell Godot that you saw bus. But in act 2 Vladimir told boy to tell that you saw me. So in cat one he cares about Estragon bo]ut in second act he become self center person who doesnot care about Estragon. It shaws how situation changes the mindset and behaviour of the person.