Khushbu Lakhupota

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task given to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir in thinking activity on our visit to the Khodidas Parmar Art Gallery, Ajanta Exhibition on 26 September, 2021, Sunday. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! In our visit, we saw many paintings by experts. Paintings have their own importance inspite of the invention of camera and photography. Paintings can express the moments, feelings of the painter and the surrounding atmosphere, and the tone of the society. It shows the mood of the time, something that words can express is shown through still paintings.  "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique, deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay' (Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108)." The written word, in Derrida's view, rel

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher Dr. HeenaMa'am on The home and the World, by Rabindranath Tagore. So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! The Home and the World  Important Quotes 1. “It was my woman’s heart, which must worship in order to love”  (Chapter 1, Pages 3-4) When the novel begins, a woman’s identity is rooted in the devotion she can show to others. For Bimala, obeisance is something to aspire to. There appear to be no gray areas or degrees of love. Love is interchangeable with worship.  2. “Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars” (Chapter 1, Page 4) Sandip preaches greed and acquisition. Nikhil believes that there is more to a person than things, which can be acquired or lost. There is a sense that Nikhil would be the same person if he were the richest man in the world or the poorest. 3. “But my husband would not give

  Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir on Digital Humanities. So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Thematic Activities ☆WORD CLOUD☆ To generate a word cloud for our study and analysis purpose. Here I have created a word cloud for the novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.  Click in below link to generate your own word cloud.  https://www.wordclouds.com/ ☆ KEY WORDS ☆ Keywords indicating what the text is about. So here I have given some words which can be easily searched through e-text or searchable pdf texts. Below are words and their wordcount to study the text in a better way. So, below are some words from the novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. These words we can see the how many times they come in a novel and we can analyse a text in a new way with the help of technology.  Words        No. of times in a text Children -          256 Power     -          144 Abracadabra  -  14 Shiva          -