Introduction
first, we know that who is Mahendrasinh Parmar.
He was born on 2 October 1967 in Naliya, a town in Kutch district of Gujarat.[1] He completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati literature from Bhavnagar University and received Ph.D from same University in 1998.[2] He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996.
He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar Since 2002, his short stories appeared in various collection of Gujarati short stories. He has done numerous shows of public reading of literary works under the title Vachikam. His critical works published as Pratham in 2009. Polytechnic (2016) is a short story collection while Rakhdu no Kagal (2016) is a collection of his personal essays. He wrote several plays.
His book Polytechnic (2016) was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020).
Today, we will see two short story from this book...
The basic concern of the poem is about the Religion. here we have seen so many people who has narrow mindset. if we see the concern of the story is all about satire on Religion. we have know what is about the ISI.
so these three name are on main position.
I - Ishvar Dabhi
S - Sharad Joshi
I - Indrajit Dholakiya
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.
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.
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.
Connection with Contemporary event:
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.
however, here using word ‘vadi’ is near by word ‘Aksharwadi.we can see the imaginative power of the writer that indirectly described the particular event.
2) Intellectual Indubhai:
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. The 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.
Connection with contemporary event:
This story is about the Post- Godhra riots in which many people lost their lives, mass rapes of the women, looting shops, burning children and women.The event is widely perceived as the trigger for the Gujarat riots that followed, which resulted in widespread loss of life, destruction of property and homelessness.
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