Program At Shamaldas college

On the day of 23rd july 2018, we some student of English department, MKBU went to attend “Shri Jayantilal Pathak Smrutidin” at Shamaldas collage, Bhavnagar. At every Thursday there is program of “Gadhya Sabha” where some writers or some who are interested in Gujarati Literature meet there and new written Literature will be read there. Jayantilal Pathak was regular member of “Gadhya Sabha” and in memory of him there is also talk on “Train”. As he worked in Railway and have many beautiful memories with train.

Our sir, Dr. Dilip Barad is invited for talk on the novel by Khushvant singh “Train to Pakistan” and Dilip sir very aptly prove that how every event of novel is connected with train. He also says that as English is become link language of world, same way train also become link of country. He also connected train and Indian society and very well explained that as train has first class, second class and third class, same way our society also have upper class, middle class and poor class. In train all are travelling in same train everyone’s destination is also same but how they differs as one is traveling with A.C on and others are traveling by standing they don’t have seat also. He also talks about the novel and important role of train in the novel.

There is also book released of four books by two different writers. “Try English” and “લે, તુ પણ જો ને” both by Harish Mahuvakar and “Once Again” and “કિરદાર” by Ajay Oza. Book released by the guests and family members of writers. After that the professor of Gujarati department Dr. Vipul Purohit talked about the Guajarati collection of essay by Harish Mahuvakar and told us about some of his favorite essays from the book. The essays are mostly on travelling which writer does sometimes alone sometimes with his family, and the adventures which he does.

Then the famous writer Jayantilal Ratilal Gohel also known as “My Dear Jayu” he talked about the book by Ajay Oza “Once Again”. He is very well known in Gujarati Literature. He wrote short stories and novels. But I find him very narrow minded because when at the end of the program we all student of English department went to meet him and click a photo with him but the first question he asked is “Are you from English department or Gujarati department?” we told him we are from English department then he suddenly says, “What you all have to do with me.” Why this type of behavior with us just because we are studying different language. By his this behavior he proved the words of Dilip sir, he always says that, “Love what is written not the person who has written”