Javed Akhtar's poetry speaks of the urban milieu that envelops him. Helplessness, hunger and homelessness, crowds and solitude, f ilth and crime, fame and obscurity, rock-strewn footpaths and glass-studded skyscrapers: this cosmopolitan world he inhabits seeps into the tone and tenor of his writing. Akhtar's sharply observed poems stretch across time and space, articulate the extremities of hot and cold seasons, of walking barefoot on live-hot embers and the tenderness of kissing f lowers drenched in dew. These are bit tersweet verses from a man who has felt f irsthand the sharpness of sensation. The themes he speaks of are universal, yet the timbre of Akhtar's poetry is unique; it is not the echo of other voices. - Dr. Gopi Chand Narang
About the Book A FREEWHEELING CONVERSATION BETWEEN JAVED AKHTAR AND NASREEN MUNNI KABIR, THE BOOK PROVIDES FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE LIFE AND MIND OF A MAN WHOSE WORK CONTINUES TO TOUCH MILLIONS. Akhtar speaks with refreshing honesty about the ups and downs of his extraordinary life—from his early childhood in Lucknow to his struggles in the sixties as an aspiring writer trying to break into the film industry, to his later years as husband, father, and hugely successful song writer and poet. He reflects on the friendships and collaborations that were the highlights of his personal and professional life, and the inescapable disappointments. He relives the battle he waged on behalf of lyricists and music composers in Parliament, the intense internal struggle to overcome the difficulties that built up in the wake of fame and money, and the many strands that wove through his relentless pursuit of excellence. Candid and wide-ranging, Talking Life is an unputdownable read packed with stories and anecdotes from film history.
Is the universe infinite, or does it have an edge beyond which there is, quite literally, nothing? Do we live in the only possible universe? Why does it have one time and three space dimensions - or does it? What is it made of? What does it mean when we hear that a new particle has been discovered? Will quantum mechanics eventually break down and give way to a totally new description of the world, one whose features we cannot even begin to imagine?This book aims to give the non-specialist reader a general overview of what physicists think they do and do not know in some representative frontier areas of contemporary physics. After sketching out the historical background, A. J. Leggett goes on to discuss the current situation and some of the open problems of cosmology, high-energy physics, and condensed-matter physics. Unlike most other accounts, this book focuses not so much on recent achievements as on the fundamental problems at theheart of the subject, and emphasizes the provisional nature of our present understanding of things.
जावेद अख्तर एक कामयाब पटकथा लेखक, गीतकार और शायर होने के अलावा एक ऐसे परिवार के सदस्य भी है जिसके जिक्र के बगैर उर्दू अदब का इतिहास कूर नहीं कहा जा सकता। जावेद अख्तर प्रसिद्ध प्रगतिशील शायर जाँनिसार अख्तर और मशहूर लेखिका सफिया अख्तर के बेटे और प्रगतिशील आँदोलन के एक और जगमगाने सितारे, लोकप्रिय कवि मजाज के भांजे है । अपने दौर के रससिद्ध शायर मुज्तर खैराबादी जावेद के दादा थे । मुत्जर के वालिद सैयद अहमद हुसैन ‘रुस्वा’ एक मधुर सुवक्ता कवि थे । मुज्तर की वालिदा सईंदुन-निसा ‘हिरमाँ' उन्नीसवीं सदी की उन चंद कवयित्रियों में से है जिनका नाम उर्दू के इतिहास में आता है । जावेद की शायरा परदादी हिरमाँ के वालिद अल्लामा फ़ज़ले-हक़ खैराबादी अपने समय के एक विश्वस्त अध्येता, दार्शनिक, तर्कशास्त्री और अरबी के शायर थे । अल्लामा फ़ज़ले-हक़ , ग़ालिब के करीबी दोस्त थे और वो ‘दीवाने-गालिब’ जिसे दुनिया आँखों से लगाती है, जावेद के स्रगड़दादा अल्लामा फ़ज़ले-हक़ का ही संपादित किया हुआ है । अल्लामा फ़ज़ले-हक़ ने 1857 की जंगे-आज़ादी में लोगों का जी जान रने नेतृत्व करने के जुर्म में अंग्रेजों से काला यानी की सजा पाई और वहीं अंडमान में उनकी मृत्यु हुई । इन तमाम पीढियों से जावेद अख्तर को सोच, साहित्य और संस्कार विरासत में मिले है और जावेद अख्तर ने अपनी शायरी से विरसे में मिली इस दौलत को बढाया ही है । जावेद अख्तर को कविता एक औद्योगिक नगर की शहरी सभ्यता में जीनेवाले एक शायर की शायरी है । बेबसी और बेचारगी, भूख और बेघरी, भीड़ और तनहाई, गंदगी और जुर्म, नाम और गुमनामी, पत्थर के फुटपाथों और शीशे की ऊँची इमारतों से लिपटी ये Urban तहजीब न सिर्फ कवि को सोच बल्कि उसकी ज़बान और लहजे पर भी प्रभावी होती है । जावेद को शायरी एक ऐसे इंसान की भावनाओँ की शायरी है जिसने वक्त के अनगिनत रूप अपने भरपूर रंग में देखे है । जिसने जिन्दगी के सर्द-गर्म मौसमों को पूरी तरह महसूस किया है । जो नंगे पैर अंगारों पर चला है, जिसने ओस में भीगे फूलों को चूमा है और हर कड़वे-मीठे ज़ज्बे को चखा है । जिसने नुकीले रने नुकीले अहसास को छूकर देखा है और जो अपनी हर भावना और अनुभव को बयान करने को शक्ति रखता है । जावेद अख्तर जिन्दगी को अपनी ही आँखों से देखता है और शायद इसीलिए उसकी शायरी एक आवाज है, किसी और की गूँज नहीं । डॉ. गोपीचंद नारंग
Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this research paper is to explore, by comparing and contrasting them, the two literary characters Hamlet and Oblomov and how they are exploited by William Shakespeare and Ivan Goncharov in different historical ages to project different visions of the human situation. Every author is influenced by his age to certain degrees and if the art of characterisation of William Shakespeare is set against that of Ivan Goncharov, it is because of the difference in ideological perspectives. William Shakespeare’s character Hamlet comes from Renaissance England and Ivan Goncharov’s character Oblomov comes from nineteenth century Russia. The former is in certain ways different from the latter despite the fact that some traits of both characters are the same, such as indecision and procrastination. The comparison and contrast will be highlighted in this paper in terms of Marxist hermeneutics, which is a scientific theory and method of analysing the social and literary types in the context of class milieu. Applying Marxist literary hermeneutics to the art of characterisation of both the authors, the present study tries to introduce new portrait and reevaluation of the personages of the two literary types in an innovative perspective.
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Samuel Beckett was the most eminent dramatist of the absurdist movement of the twentieth century. Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, at Fox rock near Dublin, Ireland. Belonging to a middle class Protestant home, Samuel Beckett enjoyed very good childhood because his family was Protestant and well to do in Ireland. His family home is of a Tudor style house, standing amidst lawns, a tennis court and a croquet lawn. He was second son of William Frank Beckett and Mary Beckett. In a poor country like Ireland, William Frank Beckett was a self-made person and he made his living as a surveyor. He was well-liked, respected and prosperous businessperson in Dublin. The Becketts had very good parental terms with Samuel Beckett and in this regard, he had a happy childhood, enjoying a comfortable life style. Moreover, Samuel Beckett’s parents wished him to be educated well, and were proud of his sporting as well as academic progress. Finally, they were able to send Samuel Beckett to the best schools of Ireland such as Earlsfort House School in Dublin and Protoria Royal in the north. Therefore, he was educated at Earls Fort House preparatory school in Dublin, and then at the boarding school Portia Royal, one of the best and most expensive schools in Ireland. All through his childhood, Samuel Beckett’s chief talents and interests were in French and English and he was inspired by the works of Dante and Racine.
इस पुस्तक में नसरीन मुन्नी कबीर ने जावेद अख्तर जैसे बहुआयामी रचनाधर्मी से लम्बी बातचीत की है, जिसके अंतर्गत जावेद की प्रारंभिक रचनाओ पर पड़े प्रभावों, उनके पारिवारिक जीवन और फिल्म-जगत के महत्वपूर्ण पक्षों को उदघाटित किया गया है, जहाँ जावेद ने सन ’६५ के आसपास ‘कैपलर-ब्वाय’ के तौर पर अपना करियर शुरू किया था ! इस बातचीत में सलीम खां के साथ उनके सफल साझे-लेखन पर भी पर्याप्त प्रकाश पड़ता है ! इस पुस्तक में मोलिक विचारक जावेद अख्तर ने विश्लेष्णात्मक ढंग से हिंदी सिनेमा की परंपरा, गीत-लेखन और कथा-तत्व के विभिन्न पक्षों को उदघाटित किया है और फिल्म-लेखन के कई पक्षों की सारगर्भित चर्चा की है ! पटकथा लेखन और फ़िल्मी शायरी के बारे में अपनी मोलिक मान्यताओ और रचना-प्रक्रिया के विभिन्न आयामों पर टिप्पणियां करने के साथ-साथ जावेद ने यह भी बताया है किश्रेष्ठ पटकथाएँ और गीत कैसे लिखे जाते हैं ! जावेद ने सफाई और ईमानदारी से अपनी शायरी और राजनैतिक जागरूकता की विकास-यात्रा पर भी महत्वपूर्ण चर्चा की है ! जावेद के हास्य-व्यंग, उनकी प्रखर बौद्धिकता, पटकथा लेखन की तकनीक पर उनकी गहरी पकड़ और सोदाहरण बातचीत ने इस पुस्तक को उन सबके लिए महत्त्वपूर्ण बना दिया है, जिनकी फिल्म और कला में रुचि है !
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this research paper is to trace the origin and development of Art for art’s sake movement from Marxist perspective. The origin of Art for art’s movement can be traced back to the late Romanticists who felt themselves misfit in the post-revolutionary bourgeois world of business, profit and industrialisation of the Patriarchal countryside of Europe. Therefore, an insoluble contradiction occurred between the aims of the late Romanticist artists and writers and the conditions of the Post-revolutionary bourgeois capitalist world. However, they became hostile to it, but failed to see any hope of changing it. The employment of Marxist literary hermeneutics in analysing Art for art’s sake movement yields the result that the apostles of this movement express their disharmony with the bourgeois capitalist social formation. They refuse to be commodity producer in the bourgeois publishing industry, in which an author is a labourer or commodity producer for those consumers whom he does not see. However, the apostles of this movement failed to introduce new modes of literary production as well as to change the bourgeois social formation. The present research study highlights the purpose, rise and fall of Art for art’s sake movement in an innovative Marxist perspective.
Case Study from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, University of Balochistan (Department of English Literature), course: Literature, language: English, abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate universal hints for an all-round development of human personality: Vladimir Lenin as a case study, in the light of Stephen R. Covey’s suggested habits, expounded in his books, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to greatness”, following the most eminent Russian physiologist and psychologist Pavlov’s theory of classical behaviourism. This paper adopts the popped up chunks of Pavlov’s classical behaviourist theory to analyse how the process of habit formation influences the effective and great human personalities of the world. Thus, the present study will enable the readers and researchers to confront Pavlov’s classical behaviourist theory of habit formation through conditioned and unconditioned stimuli and reflexes. Readers are also expected to abandon the bad habits and adopt the good ones. Through infrequent but subtle universal hints which will serve as a model of effective and great human personality of the world. Applying I. P. Pavlov’s classical behaviourist theory, this paper concentrates on all round development of gallivanting and history making personality of Vladimir Lenin as a case study, who identified himself with history, and present Vladimir Lenin in novel and innovative perspective.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Slavic Literature, University of Balochistan, language: English, abstract: Maxim Gorky is one of the great portraitists of typification of women in Russian as well as in world literature. He presents a panoramic gallery of female characters such as Nilovna, Sophia, Natasha, Sasha and Ludmilla in his debate-raging novel “Mother”. These female personages belong to the various social classes of the Russian social formation but they possess universality in their personalities whom we have often met every day and everywhere in our daily life. Gorky endows them with class-consciousness, which enables them to involve in the revolutionary proletariat movement, considering Socialism the only way of woman’s emancipation and enfranchisement as well as class-liberation. This paper tends to focus on the re-evaluation and investigation into Maxim Gorky's realistic depiction of these women to delineate their revolutionary roles in the structure of his novel as well as in the Russian Communist politics and social formation form a Marxist Feminist perspective in a new and innovative way. How these female figures are developed from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois class-milieu to the level of radical Marxist activists and militants. How they liberate themselves from their cowed, wretched and oppressed living conditions into which they have been subjugated, tortured and beaten by men.
Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Scandinavia and Iceland, , language: English, abstract: The purpose of this research paper is to conduct a textual analysis of this novel, as a research method on the bedrock of Marxist literary hermeneutics in an innovative and new way, tracing the all-round development of Pelle’s personality who succeeded to organise his fellow-proletarians on the platform of the Corporative movement, trade union and socialist revolutionary movement. He founded the garden-city for the betterment of his fellow-proletarian comrades. Martin Andersen Nexo was the most eminent Danish Marxist proletarian fiction writer of the twentieth century. He came from the working-class family background and wrote short stories, novels and essays about the plights and sufferings of the proletariat class. His novel “Pelle, the Conqueror” (1906) is one of the greatest proletariat novels in world literature. Pelle, the protagonist of the novel emerged as the self-realised and class-conscious proletarian leader from the obscurity, drudgery and poverty of his rural peasant and shepherd background. He was a common labouring lad, who served as a herd, shoemaker's apprentice and qualified shoemaker. The novel enjoyed enormous success and popularity that conquered the hearts of the proletarians and peasants of the world. The novel is also neglected in academia, criticism, literature and the world of research.
About the Book A FREEWHEELING CONVERSATION BETWEEN JAVED AKHTAR AND NASREEN MUNNI KABIR, THE BOOK PROVIDES FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE LIFE AND MIND OF A MAN WHOSE WORK CONTINUES TO TOUCH MILLIONS. Akhtar speaks with refreshing honesty about the ups and downs of his extraordinary life—from his early childhood in Lucknow to his struggles in the sixties as an aspiring writer trying to break into the film industry, to his later years as husband, father, and hugely successful song writer and poet. He reflects on the friendships and collaborations that were the highlights of his personal and professional life, and the inescapable disappointments. He relives the battle he waged on behalf of lyricists and music composers in Parliament, the intense internal struggle to overcome the difficulties that built up in the wake of fame and money, and the many strands that wove through his relentless pursuit of excellence. Candid and wide-ranging, Talking Life is an unputdownable read packed with stories and anecdotes from film history.
Pakistan is unlike most other countries in the emerging world. It is one of the two nations – the other being the state of Israel – founded on the basis of religion. Although it was created to provide a homeland for the Muslim community of British India, in its original form it was able to accommodate only about half of the people of Islamic faith who lived in the subcontinent. Pakistan’s birth in 1947 resulted in one of the largest movements of people in human history when some 14 million people left their homes, with 8 million Muslims leaving India for what is now Pakistan and 6 million Hindus and Sikhs moving in the opposite direction. This was the first large-scale incidence of ethnic cleansing the world was to witness. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Pakistan covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Pakistan.
Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Scandinavia and Iceland, , language: English, abstract: The purpose of this research paper is to conduct a textual analysis of this novel, as a research method on the bedrock of Marxist literary hermeneutics in an innovative and new way, tracing the all-round development of Pelle’s personality who succeeded to organise his fellow-proletarians on the platform of the Corporative movement, trade union and socialist revolutionary movement. He founded the garden-city for the betterment of his fellow-proletarian comrades. Martin Andersen Nexo was the most eminent Danish Marxist proletarian fiction writer of the twentieth century. He came from the working-class family background and wrote short stories, novels and essays about the plights and sufferings of the proletariat class. His novel “Pelle, the Conqueror” (1906) is one of the greatest proletariat novels in world literature. Pelle, the protagonist of the novel emerged as the self-realised and class-conscious proletarian leader from the obscurity, drudgery and poverty of his rural peasant and shepherd background. He was a common labouring lad, who served as a herd, shoemaker's apprentice and qualified shoemaker. The novel enjoyed enormous success and popularity that conquered the hearts of the proletarians and peasants of the world. The novel is also neglected in academia, criticism, literature and the world of research.
REED GRASS is an account of a young destitute boy, born in a small village in British India. In an engaging and powerful narration, the author walks you through bridle-paths of farmland, narrow lanes of villages, country markets of peasants and into the life of village folk ridden with deprivation, grief and joy. He leads you through towns and cities, casting a lingering spell, as the young boy grows into a man, braving the drudgeries of his life. He experiences the travails of independence, heat of the Partition of India, and grows old, pursuing his aspirations only to discover that the erosion of human values and decay in mutual relationships, over time, has gripped the nation. It touches a new low in his own family of four sons and two daughters. Reed Grass, a deeply moving saga of a Muslim family peopled with unforgettable characters, set in pre and post independent India will linger with you long after you have turned the last page. Haris Zaman Convener - INTACH
Good writings defy time and immediate surroundings to sustain their appeal. The entrancing aura of a well-knit article or story is lasting. Surely, Hardy's rustic Tess or Jude couldn't be out of sync in the year 2020 for technology savvy readers obsessed with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and accompanying high-tech spinoffs. Without being extravagant with words, one may say the same is true of Dr. Asif Javed's writings. Insightful and instructive, they are studded with revealing facts that are well documented to testify to the innate truth. The gifted writer tells us of the life and time of the Bronte Sisters, Ibn Batuta, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, Nawab of Kalabagh, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto et al. In more ways than one, the articles remind the reader of Dale Carnegie's 'Little Known Facts about Well-Known People'. Today, he is one of the most fluent and readable purveyors of the English language in the Pakistani American community. His writings have ranged from Punjab politics to port-partition Indian cinema, to English literature, to the Tsarist wars in Dagestan. All the time, he manages to convey, seemingly dense subjects in a seamless flowing style, making his writings a treat to read.
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