"Polytechnic" - collection of short stories

 This blog is in response of sunday reading activity which our mentor prof. Dilip Barad sir has given to us to attempt the impressionistic criticisim which we have to do as to done it in a manner as critics does and putting forward our own views on these short stories.

By moving on to the segment of the short stories first we will have to understand what is impressionistic criticism?

The idea that the impressionistic critic attempts to give or we can also be an impressionistic critic. His  own personal reactions to the work of art, and in so doing creates a. new work of art, instead of a judgment or interpretation which will have validity for others.

Here I would like to  interpret these two Gujarati short stories "Intellectual Indubhai" and "ISI No Haath" which are from "polytechnic"- a collection of short stories published  in 2016 by  Mahendrasinh parmar.

1.) ISI no Hath

• ISI No Haath is story , it is part of polytechnic story book. At the first time when we read the story then onky we can understand the real essence of the story and i would also like to add that this ritle is very appropriate to the atory and after reading the story we can get the meaning of ISI.

• I - Ishavar Dabhi
  S- Sharad Joshi
  I - Indrajeet Dholakiya

These are character in this story. The message of this story is to convey that what type of people are therr in this society who blindly believe on dharma , only for dharma people make  temples and earn money through God's name. They don't think about society and humanity .

• After reading the title first thought may come in our mind is that it is a terrorist group but actually the meaning of the title is the short name of the characters. The story is about one temple which is the cause of unemployment of the characters that the temple buy out the walk of life of the characters, and then this reason led into the crime.

• Here we can find that there are three Ishvar and Sharad who lost their business because of the temple and one professor, his university's land turned into temple, so he could't tolerated this kind of land mafia works. Furthermore, policeman's son also lost his job because of the temple. So, every characters have anger towards the temple.

• These all are that persons who lost their  business because of that Temple.
  The son of inspector , who also lost his job only because of the temple.

  So these 3 person leave bomb in the temple and police find it. So he caught them and do investigation. All  three person presents their view on it and explain that how they lost their business.

• They are ready to kill other people only for their selfishness. This is also contemporary event of the world that people become ready to kill other only for self benefits.At last they are in favour of the temple and do corruptions.

• The end of the story is very interesting. Because it has not the usual ending. All three person are now works in that temple who had great hatred for it. And suddenly S.P. Shinge disappears and media tries to find him.

🔎Contemporary issues :

I  would like to through some light over the  similar issue of Babri masjid case which led in the supreme court for justice.The matter was of tample and masjid which both are the concerns of hindu and muslim.The destruction of the Babri Mosque sparked Muslim outrage around the country, provoking several months of inter-communal rioting in which Hindus and Muslims attacked one another, burning and looting homes, shops and places of worship.

• At last we can say that this way literature  draw these kinds of social issues in literary work , With the use of Figurative language, use of metaphors and the comic elements makes the story worth reading.

• Al the  times people  think that these are not important things to be discussed or talked but literature makes use of comedy, satire and irony to highlight the dark side of the society and social issues.

• 2.)Intellectual Indubhai 

• Here the word intellectual is satire on Indubhai. The author wrote real events with imaginative truth. With first attempts of the story ,it creates  impression on mind that he is really Intellectual. When we read story we came to know about reality.

• Here are some contemporary events like Godhra riots, majority and minority fights, burning train etc.

• February is cruellest month, which present modern satire on it.In that fight Indubhai lost his house  which was burnt and his all the books which was his best part of life.

After that he remember western thinkers name . So here intellectual mind is also one imaginative truth.

The writer has included names of many western philosophers, thinkers, critics. In a way he makes satire on Elite class writers. He makes satire on the theory of Charles Darwin about the evolution of human beings, that if we all human are evoluted from same species then why the society makes difference between the majority and minority, it doesn't makes any sense. 

🔎Contemporary events :

Here are some contemporary events like Godhra riots, majority and minority fights, burning train etc.  '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, roobing shops, burning children and women.

Thank you...