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  Thinking Activity : The Birthday Party  Hello readers! Here I wrote about tasks for studying purposes . Here is my task on thinking Activity : The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. The birthday party is played by pinte.  The task is given by Dilip Barad sir.  The Birthday Party : The Birthday Party (1957) is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London by Encore Publishing in 1959. It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays.  Here is some questions about Film Screening: ‘The Birthday Party’ - a British drama film (1968)- directed by  William Friedkin (The Birthday Party) -  based on an unpublished screenplay by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, which he adapted from his own play The Birthday Party (Pinter, The Birthday Party). Post-Viewing Tasks: 1 )  Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie? It is very difficult to know the director's intention behind omitting Lulu’s scene because it doe...

Thinking Activity : Waiting for Godot Hello readers! Here is my blog on thinking Activity Waiting for Godot. Academic task is given by Dilip Barad sir, department of English. Here is sir's blog to know about task. And also here is recoding video of Barad sir's lecture while showing movie screening of waiting for Godot. The movie "Waiting for Godot" is directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. In this 2001 movie, Barry McGovern and Johnny Murphy played Vladimir and Estragon, whereas Lucky and Pozzo were performed by Alan Standford and Stephan Brennan, respectively. Here are some questions. 1 ) What connection do you see in the setting (“A country road. A tree.Evening.”) of the play and these paintings? In this picture two people are there. Both have desire. This picture suggests that two people are waiting for something. But In picture " Longing " is the theme of this painting. So Samuel Beckett was inspired by this painting and then he wrote " Wai...

Sunday Reading : EcoCriticism Hello readers! Here is my task on EcoCriticism as Sunday reading which is given by Dilip Barad sir, Department of English. We also had an online Talk on 'Ecocritical Thinking: Sitanshu Yashaschandra's 'Tree Once Again' by  Devang Nanavati.  EcoCriticism : Ecocriticism is an umbrella term under which a variety of approaches fall,this can make it a difficult term to define. As ecocritic Lawrence Buell says, ecocriticism is an “increasingly heterogeneous movement”.  But, “simply put, ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment”. Salient features of Ecocritical stands :  # Earth centrism # Environmental Justice # Post colonial approach to ecological issues. EcoCriticism :    Goal and strategies : 👉 Eco Sensitizing the human psyche. 👉 De- acceleration in the speed of our March towards eco suicidal future.  👉 Integration of insight from numery disciple of knowledg...

Existentialism : Flipped learning : Asked questions. Hello readers! Here is my blog on Existentialism: flipped learning and asked questions. This task is given by Dilip Barad sir. Here is sir's blog to konw more About task. # Though on video resources Video 1. What is existentialism ? John Paul Satre referred to himself as an existentialist and founded the whole movement.  Existentialism starts with Kierkegaard despite the fact that we can apply the term existentialist to many great thinkers and writers such as Kierkegaard Nietzche, Dashefsky, Kafka etc.. all give great definition to existentialism. Video 2. The Myth of Sisyphus : The Absurd reasoning  In this video we will be talking about an absurd reasoning Camus  start thai essay by bringing our attention to an Intriguing and somewhat unusual stat he writes.  The meaning of life is the most urgey of questions for Camus suicide is an individual act he says..  We are concerned here adults that with the r...

Breath : Interpretation Challenge and Video shoots.   Hello readers!              Here is my blog on Samuel Buckett's Shortest Play "Breath". This task is given by Dilip Barad sir. If you want to know, Click here to know more about blogs.             There is an Interpretation of Shortest Play by Samuel Buckett's. Giving Interpretation of Shortest Play is thirty seconds only. Martin Esslin first gave the term 'Theatre of the Absurd.' He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969. Few of his notable works are Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days and others. If we look at the script of the play, it is as follows. CURTAIN Up 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and immediate inspiration and slow increase of light together reaching maximum - together in about ten seconds. Silence and hold for about fi...

Film review : Postcolonial Film : Midnight's children, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Black Prince and Abdul and Victoria. Hello readers! Here is my blog on Film review: Postcolonial Film: Midnight's children, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Black Prince and Abdul Victoria. This task is given by Dilip Barad sir, department of English. Here is the sir's blog to know more about this blog. Author Biography Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India, on June 19, 1947, just two months before the protagonist of Midnight's Children, whose birth coincides with the moment India receives its independence. He attended school in Bombay and in Rugby, England. Film reviews : Midnight's children :   Midnight's Children is a 2012 Canadian - British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name. A Film by Deepa Mehta 1917 - 1977 India Colonial.  Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize, Great Britain's equivalent of the U...