Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Sunday Reading task : Interpretation of the Stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar

Sunday Reading Task : Interpretation of the Stories by Mahendrasinh Parmar : 1) ISI No Haath and 2) Intellectual Indubhai 




Literature is reflection of society. It shows the real life conditions of  society. It is not all about prising the things but it also criticised things which indirectly harmful to others. This two stories "ISI no Haath" and " Intellectual Indubhai" written in Gujarati language by Mahendrasinh Parmar.These stories are from 'Polytechnic' - a collection of short stories published in 2016.

1) ISI no Haath:

Into this story talked about impact of religion on the mind set of the people. Religion converting as ATM. Religion become way of money making. On the name of Religion people ready to do any thing. This thing also reflects in to this story. In this story talked about the power of religion who ruined life of common people by ruined  their business. The meaning of ISI not belongs to any terrorist group. It has different meaning :

I  - Ishvar Dabhi
S - Sharad Joshi
I  - Indrajit Dholakiya

So it's about the people whom life ruined because of the temple.

     Ishvar was Junk Man or Scavenger Or Scrap Collector. Hee collects old newspapers but when this Temple build they told the people to gave the old newspaper to them. So people think that it would be good to gave newspaper to temple so on the name of faith and religion people don't gave old newspaper to Ishvar  so because of that his business was broken. 

     Sharad was coming from poor family. His mother was good cook. His father  and his mother feed people and urning  money. But because of the temple their business was broken because temple provide food to people in 600 Rs per month. Sharad father can't face the reality and died.

 Indrajit was professor. He talked about the profession of the religious people. Temple become the profession for urning money He talked about the land on which the temple build. This land was given by Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji for education purpose but later on this land taken by religious people to build temple. So how religion ruined the education.




   Religion make people blind. Here the son of Police inspector goes abroad. There he  was blind flooded by religious people. He decide to left his engineering and join the work of temple. After build  the temple religious people left him form there. He faced many problems and couldn't got job.


   So this story highly satirised the religion. It's highlight the blind faith. On the name  Religious people ruined the life of others. Religion become business to make money nothing than that. This types of thing harmful for society. It is more harmful than wars. Because it attacks on people's faith. It shows the power of religion who controlled intellectualism.


2) Intellectual Indubhai :

It's story of Indubhai. He was teacher. As teacher he was very honest and kind person. He doesn't allowed students to do cheating in exams. So he was  very honest and moral person. He was very intellectual person that's why he known as intellectual Indubhai. He has read many books. He was very knowledgeable person.

Double meaning of intellectual :

Here writer satires on the political leaders who has great intellectual power by speaking on any subject in four to five languages. So he satirise on the political leaders.Another meaning of intellectual is the person who have great knowledge of things. Indubhai has great knowledge of literature. He was not only intellectual but also emotional person.

  This story was also about suffering of intellectual people. It also highlight the Western thinkers like Nietzsche, Darwin, Milton, Karl Marx, Rilke and Louis Pasteur. Also it describes the Indian literature like Mahabharat , Ramayana etc. Indubhai also teach humanism to the students in his lectures. He talked about thoughts of Gandhiji and other great thinkers.

● Connection with Real life Incidents :

    This story also connected with real life incident post Gothra rights. In this story also talked about from British perspective.




Writer took examples while describe Majority and Minority crises as "April as cruellest month". In this people burn the houses and trains. Also the Holy books like Ramayana and Mahabharata ,  krishna nu jivan Sangeet, Astitvano Utsav and Satyana prayogo burned.

It can be interpret as loss of morality and humanity into people .  At the end Indubhai couldn't able to be normal because he was intellectual people , he has ability to see the things with deep understanding. He could see the things which others can't see. At the end his humanity , morality and intellectualism loss in front of the cruel society.  It can be seen his intellect become reason behind his sufferings.

    The writer has great ability to connect the real life situation and imaginative stories together. He wrote not only about the incidents but also minutely wrote about situation of people and effects of that incidents upon the mind of people.

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