Lagaan movie

    Lagaan movie

             Lagaan is a 2001 Indian epic sports -drama film, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, produced by Amir Khan and Manoor Khan, and written by Gowariker and Abbas Tyrewala. Amir Khan stars along with debutant Gracy Singh, with British actors Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne playing supporting roles. The film was shot in an ancient village near Bhuj, India.

During the British Raj, a farmer named Bhuvan accepts the challenge of Captain Andrew Russell to beat his team in a game of cricket and enable his village to not pay taxes for the next three years.

What is the lesson of  this movie 

Lagaan movie was a great Inspiration for Aspiring Leaders.
 The movie taught us many things.

1. To see problems as an opportunities: When the Captain from British challenged Bhuvan for a cricket match,Bhuvan saw it as a way to bring happiness into the lives of people.
2. Implementation is as important as Dreaming: Bhuvan dreamt of bringing happiness in the lives of people by winning the match  for which he clearly defined the goal and discussed the plan and Implementation with the villagers.
3. Selflessness: It's a very great quality for a leader to have. In fact every leader should put the interests of his people before his own. Bhuvan did exactly the same.
4. No matter what comes in your way, be determined: When Bhuvan thought of including an untouchable in the team, villagers opposed him but he stood still and determined and in the end convinced everyone that it would be beneficial for the team.
5. Small examples to learn complex things: Cricket was altogether a complex game for the villagers initially, but Bhuvan compared it with an already well known game of Gulli-danda.
6. Building the team: Food tastes good only if the ingredients are in the right proportion. Same is the case with a team. If a team has to succeed,it should have the right people and Bhuvan makes this possible by understanding the people and treats every individual differently, again a very good quality for a leader to have.
7. Getting people into your team is just half the task, assigning them their roles is as important.
8. Lastly, OVER CONFIDENCE kills :D ,The british were over confident about their victory which eventually made them lose.

Thinking activity on Doctor Faustus

          Thinking activity on Doctor Faustus 

Doctor Faustus 

Doctor Faustus, a respected German scholar, is bored with the traditional types of knowledge available to him. He wants more than logic, medicine, law, and religion. He wants magic. His friends, Valdes and Cornelius, begin to teach him magic, which he uses to summon a devil named Mephistophilis.

⬛️ About writer 

Christopher Marlowe

(baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London), Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama, who is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse.

About Play

Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic, medicine, law, and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic. His friends Valdes and Cornelius instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. Meanwhile, Wagner, Faustus’s servant, has picked up some magical ability and uses it to press a clown named Robin into his service.

Mephastophilis returns to Faustus with word that Lucifer has accepted Faustus’s offer. Faustus experiences some misgivings and wonders if he should repent and save his soul; in the end, though, he agrees to the deal, signing it with his blood. As soon as he does so, the words “Homo fuge,” Latin for “O man, fly,” appear branded on his arm. Faustus again has second thoughts, but Mephastophilis bestows rich gifts on him and gives him a book of spells to learn. Later, Mephastophilis answers all of his questions about the nature of the world, refusing to answer only when Faustus asks him who made the universe. This refusal prompts yet another bout of misgivings in Faustus, but Mephastophilis and Lucifer bring in personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins to prance about in front of Faustus, and he is impressed enough to quiet his doubts

Ravished" by magic (1.1.112), Faustus turns to the dark arts when law, logic, science, and theology fail to satisfy him. According to Charles Nicholl this places the play firmly in the Elizabethan period when the problem of magic ("liberation or damnation?") was a matter of debate, and when Renaissance occultism aimed at a furthering of science. Nicholl, who connects Faustus as a "studious artisan" (1.1.56) to the "hands-on experience" promoted by Paracelsus, sees in the former a follower of the latter, a "magician as technologist".

Thinking activity on Metaphysical Poetry

Thinking activity on Metaphysical Poetry

Definition of Metaphysical Poetry.....

Highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression.

About metaphysical poets :-

The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse. These poets were not formally affiliated and few were highly regarded until 20th century attention established their importance. Given the lack of coherence as a movement, and the diversity of style between poets, it has been suggested that calling them Baroque poets after their era might be more useful. Once the Metaphysical style was established, however, it was occasionally adopted by other and especially younger poets to fit appropriate circumstances.

Metaphysical poetry in brief 

Definition of Metaphysical poetry

You've probably heard of haikus, lyrical poems and limericks. All of those types of poetry have specific qualities that allow us to group them together. Metaphysical poetry is a little bit different. The poems classified in this group do share common characteristics: they are all highly intellectualized, use rather strange imagery, use frequent paradox and contain extremely complicated thought.

Characteristics

The group of metaphysical poets that we mentioned earlier is obviously not the only poets or philosophers or writers that deal with metaphysical questions. There are other more specific characteristics that prompted Johnson to place the 17th-century poets together.

Perhaps the most common characteristic is that metaphysical poetry contained large doses of wit. In fact, although the poets were examining serious questions about the existence of God or whether a human could possibly perceive the world, the poets were sure to ponder those questions with humor.

Metaphysical poetry also sought to shock the reader and wake him or her up from his or her normal existence in order to question the unquestionable. The poetry often mixed ordinary speech with paradoxes and puns. The results were strange, comparing unlikely things, such as lovers to a compass or the soul to a drop of dew. These weird comparisons were called conceits.

Metaphysical poetry also explored a few common themes. They all had a religious sentiment. In addition, many of the poems explored the theme of carpe diem(seize the day) and investigated the humanity of life.

One great way to analyze metaphysical poetry is to consider how the poems are about both thought and feeling. Think about it. How could you possibly write a poem about the existence of God if you didn't have some emotional reaction to such an enormous, life-altering question?

Here some examples of metaphysical poetry... .

* The Flea 

*The Sun Rising

*Death be not Proud 

*The Dream

   

     

Youth festival 2018

Youth Festival Aishvaryam 2018.


    The youth festival ,as the name suggests, is an annual festival of youthful vitality and vibrancy. It is the event in which maximum number of students participate and display their talents in variety of creative events.


      Three days 26th, 27th and 28th October youth festival in our Maharaja Krishnakumarsighji Bhavnagar University "Aishvaryam yuva Manthan" organized by Takshshila institute of science and commerce.

   
        I have attended two events

       -Opening of youth festival

       -One act play (our department students)

         I attended opening of youth festival ,in opening chief guest yuvraj of Bhavnagar ,yuvrani and Maharani. I watched them second time.


   One act play

             One act play performed at Atal Auditorium. When I present at Atal Auditorium "Bruhad Samhita " was performing. And after our department students tern.

    A one act play is a play that is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One act play may consist of one or more scenes. In recent years,  the 10 minute play has emerged as a popular subgene of the one act play, especially in writing compilation.

vocabulary

Hetal dabhi from Hetaldabhi2