Fiction and Lies

This blog is part of my academic activity. We have asked to share our views on what according to us is fiction and lie. Here is my response.

It is told in sanskrit shloka that, "The world of Poet is greater then the world of Bramha (creator of the world as per Hindu myth)" and many reasons are also given to prove that statment and one reason is that that "The world of Bramha" has rules but "The world of Poet" has no rules there for "The world of Poet" is greater. Here having no rules doesn't mean anything else but a new world which is alternate of the world in which we live and that is called "alternative fact", which is a pure imagination and pretending of something but claiming something which is imagined is lie. 

For example, once a person died it can not be live again and this is fact but in Mary Shelly's " Frankenstein" Victor give life to a dead one which is purely imagination or fiction or we can say this is "alternative fact" but claiming that it is fact that Victor gave life to dead is lie, which any literary writers never does. So it is like "alternative fact" or "alternative world" of literary writers and not lies.

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Stop Telling Sharmeens And Adigas to Photoshop Reality - Moni Mohsin

This blog is part of my academic activity. We have asked to share our views on the artical of Moni Mohsin, who is a author. She has shared her views about the mentality of society where people are telling writers to photoshop the reality. She boldly denies it. Here is her words, to read click here.

She is saying that stop telling writers like Sharmeen and Adiga to photoshop real face of society. If society wants them to write good things about themselvse then change the self not the views of writers. Here after reading her artical I am sharing my views.

We can say that hypocracy is in the blood of indians and not only indians but everyone who only wants to show a good picture of everything and try to curtain every bad things which are alive in between them. That is the reason, no matter how much hate the two family has but when they are front of others they are like having a very good relationships, they never show problems.

The response of people is negative on the works which shows some harsh reality of that place may be because that places are colonized and they want to show their colonizer the greatness of thier place though we can not find such greatness. If literary writers or any art form shows the bitter reality it doesn't mean they are anti-national, they have feelings for nation and that's why they are showing that dirty picture of reality to bring some change. This is the work of art to show which is curtained, and if nation have problems with the writings they should change themselves in such a way that no writer can find a picture to write something harsh.

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Mario Vargas Llosa and Contemporary Issues

This blog is part of my academic activity. Here we have asked to give our views on contemporary issues. On which Mario Vargas Llosa has also shared his views. To read his views click here.

The word or ideas like liberals, nationalism, populism, greatest challenge to democracy, intellectual honesty, literature and morality, political correctness and freedom all are have many dimension which changes with places and people. Here are my views on this topics.

Liberals are those who think differently then others and there is always resistence front of liberalism and this resisting voice is that much strong that it can suppress the voice of liberals, but the voice of liberals should be respected because the liberals are also part of this society and they just show their freedom of everything which still bind others.

Nationalism as Mario vargos also says that it is racism, to believe that the belongingness of some land or race give you priviledge you started thinking your superiority on others which creates violence. Violence is always harmfull, it doesn't matter that in which form or on what name it is done.

Literature and morality, both are the way different from each other. Literature is at first place only for enjoy though it always have some kind of meaning but it is not neccessory also. If you can't get the meaning but you enjoy it is worth of literature. It is not lecture of saint, it is mainly for pleasure. Morality has its own place in literature, but if it doesn't have it doesn't mean as weak literature.

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Mario Vargas Llosa's Interview

This blog is part of my academic activity. We have asked to read Mario Vargas Llosa's interview and share the ideas which we like the most from interview. Here are some ideas from interview which I like the most. To read the interview of Llosa click here.

"I think it is right to denounce abuses against women. These abuses are everywhere, so I have total sympathy for this movement as far as it is for more justice, more democracy, more equality of opportunities for women and men."

"If you respect literature you must accept not only the very idealist, altruist vision of human beings but also the infernal vision of them."

"You cannot attack literature for our vices and prejudices and stupidities. I think this is very important because I am convinced that the feminist movement’s voice should be heard, but I don’t accept this idea of censorship for literature or for culture in general."

"Young people today tend to think that images can form modern creative citizens. They don’t. Images create a passive citizen, more easily domesticated than the citizen formed by ideas. I am certainly convinced that ideas are much more important than images."

"words are acts and that you write things that could make a difference in history or solve problems. Writing was a way to participate in the creation of a different kind of society: freer, more just, more liberal."

"Probably historians are more accurate, but it doesn’t matter. The way literature impregnates the imagination is what matters."

"All writers are autobiographical. In some writers, this is more explicit and obvious, in others more hidden. But I don’t think you invent anything out of nothing. The main point of departure is always the personal memory of actual experience."

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Oneness of literature

This blog is part of my acdemic activity. Here we have asked to see oneness in literature, with the comparison of "The Waste  Land" by T. S. Eliot and the short story "Joke" by Anton Chekhov.

Literature is like a river, water of river makes it's own small different ways and flaws in different directions but the root is same. According to Northrop Frye, all literature seems to follow basic archetype. The skeleton is same the body is different. Every new literature has some connection with the old one and with that connection it makes it place in existing building of literature. Every literature has some signs and symbols, sometimes the signs and symbols are same but meanings are different. As every writer has it's own reason to write, to put certain symbols, and to give certain message through symbols. 

Here the lines from "Waste Land" and Anton Chekhov's short story "Joke" has some same symbols like environment, going down on the sled. In "Waste Land" it's about childhood memory the hidden meaning is sexual perversion, but in "Joke" has visible meaning of lust. In"Joke" there is only lust and name was given of love. So both has some similarities. Which also signifies oneness of literature.

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"Pahredar piya ki" TV show

This blog is part of my academic activity.

"Pahredar Piya Ki" was a Hindi serial. Which was broadcasted on Sony Tv. In this serial they are showing a woman married to a boy with the purpose of protecting him from his evil family members. The age of girl is 19 years and the age of boy is 9 years. This is what made this show talk of the town. Many believes that this show is regressive and many thinks it is progressive. We have asked to give our views. Here is my opinions about this serial.

I think that "Pehredar Piya Ki" got controversy because they show woman as protecter and woman is older than man character and that is the reason why all wants to ban it because they never accept woman in power position. If the position of woman and man is changed than society don't have any kind of problem then they don't remember child marriage also. Other reason I thought that may be whatever reason is there, I don't think that marriage is the only option if she wants to protect him she can adopt him too. Marry to a 9 year old boy is not a solution. And to compelete my point I want to say that in this world nothing is perfect, everyone has some kind of problem with everything you can not make happy every people but it doesn't mean you start baning the things if it is so then one day may be everything is ban you have free choice if you like it watch it, if you don't then don't watch it.

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Post Truth

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"Post Truth" has choosen as the word of the year in 2016 by Oxford Dictionary. According to Oxford dictionary Post Truth means, " relating to or denoting circumstancee in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."

We have asked to write our understanding of Post Truth. As per my understanding post-truth is simply means remaking of truth. It is something that powerfull people make for their comfort zone and, its presentation is so powerfull that society starts believing it as truth. It has very strong effect that people don't feel need to question it. Post-truth mainly can be found in politics or in name of religion or nation, where they atteck on people's emotion and make them emotional fool.

If we take example of movie "PK", the Baba defines pk's remote control as the broken stone of lord shiva's weapon just for publicity and money. He plays with people's faith. Same thing heppens in movie "Oh My God", when Paresh Raval is in comma, all saints making viral the roumor that Paresh Raval is god's Avatar. Only for making money and these all things heppen in name of god, that is the reason people don't question it and starts believing it blindly.

While in play "Othello" by Shakespeare, Othello kills Desdemona because Iago constatntly attck on Othello's mind that Desdemona have affair with Casio on the contarary Othello knows very well that Desdemona and Casio are best friends even he forget that Casio is the one who delivers their messages. Othello never have doubt on Desdemona untill Iago plant a seed in his brain and make some post-truth and make Othello believes that Desdemona cheating on him and he kills her wife and Iago does all these things for his personal revenge.

If we give comman man two choise either he live and make country proud or he commit suicide or kill other innocent people for country or religion, a comman man normally choose the first one but terrorists are ready to die and kill other people in the name of religion or country. They missuse people's feeling for nation or religion and make any person ready to commit suicide, they constantly hammaring on brain or repetation of some words which make people stop thinking logically and they become ready to kill innocent people and commit suicide.


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