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This Blog is a part of Sunday reading tasks in which professor keep on giving the task on Sunday to cultivate the thinking ability in students. So, on this Sunday, students' work is to interpret these two Gujarati short stories "Intellectual Indubhai" and "ISI No Haath" from "Polytechnic"- a collection of short stories published in 2016 by Mahendrasinh Parmar.
👉''ISI no Haath'
'ISI no Haath' is a very interesting short story by Mahendrasinh_Parmar. It is satire on the 'Religion'.By reading the title the first thoght comes in our mind is about terrorists and Muslims. Later on we come to know that the story is about the partial behavioural pattern of religion and how it creates terrorosts.
I - Ishvar Dabhi
S - Sharad Joshi
I - Indrajit Dholakiya
So it's about the people whose life ruined because of the temple.
Ishvar was Junk Man or Scavenger Or Scrap Collector. He collected old newspapers but when this Temple was built they told the people to give the old newspaper to them. So people think that it would be good to give newspaper to temple so in the name of faith and religion people don't gave old newspaper to Ishvar so because of that his business was broken.
Sharad was from poor family. His mother was good cook. His father and his mother feed people and earning 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 a professor. He talked about the profession of the religious people. Temple became the profession for earning money. He talked about the land on which the temple was built. This land was given by Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji for education purposes but later on this land was taken by religious people to build temples. So how religion ruined education.
Connection of Contemporary event:
Here, we can see the imaginative power of the writer that indirectly, he criticized the reality of Aksharvadi Temple of Bhavnagar. In the story when we read the words of the professor Indrajeet, when a policeman was inquiring that this land was donated to the University for educational purpose by his highness Maharaja Krishnakumarsihnji, the last Maharaja of Gohil Dynasty. Hence, professor and many others against this temple and also the professor from Chemistry department, and also Sir P.P Institute is connected with the Aksharvadi temple and also this event actually happened in the past. So we can say that this is an imaginative truth very aptly conveyed by writes through this story and also a satire on politics and on religious institute also that they shut the mouth of people who spoke against the temple through the power and we also see in the story that all three characters turned in the favour of the temple.
Mostly whenever we go to any temple we see how there is one 'VIP, line. if God is for all then why this partiality.These religion create an atmosphere and make people frustrsated at that level,that they ready to do anything.We see religion as devil in this story.How the temple is turned into a business centre!!!! The S.P escape at the end of the story.No one tries to stop him.
The first story is a wonderful work of imaginative truth. The story about one professor Indubhai, was very intellectual and kind hearted person. He was teaching lesson of humanism and teach the thoughts of gandhiji, Narsinh Mehta, Meera, Eliot and Rilke. But one day he faced the cruel situation in which majority and minority communal riots happened and people killed and burned each other. After, seen that kind of situation Indubhai remembering the western thinkers. Here, writer of this story seems very knowledgeable because he reminds the western thinkers to the people.
Connection of Contemporary event:
When we read the words 'February a cruelest month', 'Majority and Minority' and 'Burning train' the Post-Godhra riots come in our mind. This story is about the Post- Godhra riots in which many people lost their lives, mass raped of the women, looting shops, burning children and women.
Here, writer very wonderfully wrote that the books of Ramayana, Mahabharat, Krishna nu Jivan sangeet all are burned so it means all the moral thoughts are also burned in the mind of people. So, the story is presented with great imaginative truth.
Satire on Western Thinkers
Conclusion:
To conclude, we can say that the writer's way of telling imaginative truth is great, very wonderfully he talked about the real incidents through the imagination power each and every words and characters are appropriate to convey the reality.
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