Post-truth

I am going to explain my views regarding this word post-truth. Post- truth is a new word which become popular now a days because of media. Media present the news in most effective way. Media wants that their news should directly affect the mind of the readers. These types of extra effect leads to the lose of facts and evidence. The basic truth loses its value and whatever comes out is post-truth.
I would like to give an example of Sonu nigam's tweet regarding Azaan. Sonu nigam tweets that " God bless everyone. I am not a muslim and i have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India"
He also added that " I dont believe in any temple or gurudwara using electricity to wake up people who don't follow the religion" in his third tweet.
The simple meaning of these tweets was that Sonu nigam wants to banned the loudspeaker system for prayer. God listens our prayer through our heart, not through loudspeaker. But Sonu nigam's statement lose its original meaning through media. Media makes it a big issue and then people started criticizing. Even the actoress Richa also criticize sonu by saying that " sonu , we all get a lil noisy here! I live 5 minutes from u, i m sure u hear item songs blaring in the name of processions. Had to soundproof"
Even one of the twitter user @iamzaalima said "Azaan should be stopped in India, where millions of muslim live, because desh ka laadla sonu nigam can't sleep"
In this way through mafia the truth lost its meaning. Misinformation and disinformation have victory over information. Facts are no longer consider important.

Show less

Elements of Colonialism in Gulliver's travels

SHORT INTRODUCTION ABOUT BACKGROUND OF THE NOVEL                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Gulliver's travels an adventure story(in reality a misadventure story). It involves several voyages of LEMUEL GULLIVER, a ship's surgeon. There are total four voyages that is a voyage to LILIPUT, BROBDINGNAG and HOUYHNHNMS. Gulliver after each adventure is somehow able to return to his home in England, where he recovers from those unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ELEMENTS OF COLONIALISM IN THIRD AND FOURTH VOYAGES                                                                                                                                                                                                                 In the third voyage there is an element of colonialism. In this voyage Gulliver finds a floating island that is Laputa. Gulliver meets several inhabitants including the king. All are pre-occupied with things associated with mathematics and music. The king of Laputa island is ruling over Balnibarbi, which is an island below it. How can one rule over other place which is far away, without knowing the cause and sufferings of people. This is what colonialism shows that is full control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In the last voyage of Houyhnhnms elements of colonialism is developed to an extent. The Houyhnhnms are ruling over Yahoos. The civilized rules over uncivilized. Houyhnhnms the horses portrays Yahoos as uncivilized. They interpreted with their own thinking without getting other voice from Yahoos. So Houyhnhnms are colonizer, they make their own rule. Anything which is evil is Yahoo for them. There is an unequal relationship between the colonial power and the colony that is Yahoos and Houyhnhnms. Houyhnhnms are powerful and they are ruling over weaker Yahoos. Yahoos are considered as bad creature who engage in violence, fights with each other, lacks moral values. But Houyhnhnms are superior in there own world, they have all good qualities and the word 'bad' is only used for Yahoos.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           In this way these two voyages shows different elements of colonialism.       

Plato's objection

I am agree with plato's objection to freedom of expression artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers. As we know that some tv soaps are totally weird and idiotic, by seeing that type of tv soaps we must think that plato's objection is really true. Some types of immoral acts should be totally banned. Plato in his book  The republic says that poets misguide people and they provoke evil ideas in people' s mind. Hence they should be banished from the ideal state. I want to give a recent example from the daily soap' Udaan'. This serial misguide people to do the cruel and illegal things. In this serial the main villain kamal narayan is always involve in conspiracy. He constantly conspired against that small girl chakor. By seeing this act of conspiracy people get ideas about it. This villain always tried to dominate the entire village and all the villagers were his slaves. There is proper name given to these slaves " Bandhua majdur". So people get affected and they also tried to trapped someone and to humiliate. It should be banned  as if i think from plato's point of view.
During my B.A programme, I have studied the great play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. This play followed aristotle literary tradition. In this tragic play plot is the soul of tragedy. All the events are logically built to form a perfect plot. From birth to death all events are tied together. The decision of Oedipus to find the truth behind the plight of his countrymen leads to his own tragic fall. This eagerness and anxiety of finding every cause makes Oedipus weak. This is the small weakness in a strong character which is called hamartia as described by aristotle. This play also followed the three unities given by aristotle. The unity of time is followed properly as there is no vast gap between two events. Each n every event comes out instantly. Oedipus himself reveal all the events logically. As he solve the riddle of Spinx, sent Creon to the oracle of Delphi to find the truth. After returning from oracle of Delphi Creon reveal that the murderer of  the king Laios responsible for the plight of countrymen. Then Oedipus goes on finding the murderer. At the end after revealation of every  thing Oedipus himself  found as a murderer who kills his father and married to his mother. There is also unity of place, as most of the events takes place only at one place that is Thebes. At last unity of action also followed by the character Oedipus, as the action done by Oedipus is consistent and convincing.
I also studied Shakespeare's play As you like it during my B.A programme. As we know that Shakespeare didn't follow the three unities. So Shakespeare breaks Aristotelian literary tradition. In the play As you like it,there is no unity of place. Some parts of the play enacted i  the forest of Arden,some at far away from forest at palace. There is also no unity of time. Rosalind and Orlando met at palace. Then after a long break they unite at the forest of Arden. But there Rosalind disguised herself as Ganymede. At the end she reveal her identity. So much act playec by her was in her disguised form.  There is no hamartia, no tragic hero in the play, the whole play should be classified as pastoral comedy. There are so many couples in the play. And all get married at the end with the help of God of marriage.

Introduction

Hello myself Hema Goswami. I am studying in M.A department of english  M.K bhavnagar university. I recently completed my B.A from S.N.D.T university.