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afraid of you all that if she accepts any money you — women activists will say she has sold herself. So we have deposited the prize money of three thousand pounds in her bank.” Well, there was no other alternative as the cheque was in Bhanwari’s name, but the money had not yet reached her. Mundhra’s friend wanted half the money for himself. In response to my query on the phone, he shouted, “I took great pains to get her the money and now she is acting pricey that she does not need it.” If this cheque did not reach Bhanwari , my gift to her had no chance. It too got lost in this fraud. The 2002 IIT ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ was given to Mumbai’s ex-student Jagmohan Mundhra. This was an achievement for him. He deserves applause as he succeeded in changing his soft-porn film maker image. The film 142 :: April-June 2010 ran in Mumbai for 5 weeks -- not a bad financial proposition. Even I gained the credit of writing the film. The only one who suffered was Bhanwari . Kavita Srivastava’s words reverberate in my ears, “Boys in school really trouble Bhanwari’s son. They tease him, “how much money has your mother taken, you son of a bitch...aren’t you ashamed of living off your mother’s fucking.” Bhanwari’s son has now come to Jaipur. He often writes letters to my friend Urmila Pawar asking for financial assistance for admission in another college. His letters and Kavita Srivastava’s words prick my conscience. It’s an irony that we , the so called ‘creative’ artists, actors, writers, merely use the struggles of flesh and blood people for our selfish purpose, our name and fame. What role do we play in helping them to achieve their goal? Sudha Arora, born 1946 at Lahore, is a feminist author and activist who is also involved with theatre and films. She wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the controversial film ‘bawandar’ and recounts her frustration at film-writing. She is not the first to face the fire. A number of creative writers have been drawn to cine media and have felt disillusioned. She has written and edited a great number of books on women’s issues. Honorary director of Vasundhara, a book centre at Mumbai where she lives. Seema Sharma is professor of English at Jaihind College, Mumbai and translates from Hindi to English and vice versa.
Language HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE NETHERLANDS Pushpita Awasthi Translated by Satya Chaitanya After the independence of Suriname in 1975, scared by their insecurities about life and livelihood, a large section of Surinamese people of Indian origin migrated to Holland [Netherlands]. The Netherlands government made arrangements for the livelihood and security of these Indians who had fled from Suriname in their thousands. Over the time, with the help of the government, several self-managed organizations came into being in the Netherlands. These people of Indian origin, in order to promote community spirit and organizational power within their community, started study classes and regular teaching. Several organizations were formed by Sanatan Dharma and Arya Samaj. Thus, with the aim of protecting their religion, language and culture and safeguarding their faith in these, people began teaching and learning the Hindi language. People of Indian origin from Suriname like Gurudatt Kalla Singh and Karta Ram wrote plays in order to preserve Indian culture. Similarly, dauntless efforts were made by troupes of musicians and dancers to re-establish Indian folk culture of Suriname in the Netherlands. Many Dutch scholars wrote books of Hindi grammar as well as numerous articles on Hindi literature, both modern and that of the Bhakti era. These helped deep roots of Hindi language and literature grow into the hearts of their students. From time to time scholars from India too were invited to contribute to this process. The people of April-June 2010 :: 143
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A Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Antarra
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Contents Focus LANGUAGE DISCOURSE W
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Editor's Note Those who have a pass
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Focus JOOTHAN Om Prakash Valmiki Tr
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unwarranted. Ram Singh and Sukkhan
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angry that his dense moustache was
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place where uplas or cow dung cakes
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He had entered the cowsheds of the
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that she kept with great care with
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to lose touch with those companions
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It rained a lot in the year 1962. A
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was cooked at home, we all got very
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Discourse JOOTHAN: A DALIT LITERARY
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in the present. These are memories
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sun and the needle pricks of the sh
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as well as the rhetorical use of th
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he used to come to our house in Alm
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although drawing its special charac
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the forests, or the discovery of la
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oth the above-mentioned tendencies
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enterprising elements with more cap
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quite opposite to them. This has on
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considerable “reverse flow”, th
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on the basis of a new model. This n
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Our mind Clouds with the din of Loo
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He’s not born in any castle- In t
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Such Is The Time Such is this time
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manning machines returning home, af
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I have to tell them each time that
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Said—I used to love this man. Had
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Poetry FIVE POEMS Nilesh Raghuvansh
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How dear it is to hear him so! His
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Books Never willed anybody for a gi
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Discourse POST MODERNISM: A CRITICA
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(Daniel Bell), or ‘post-modern ti
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According to Jameson and Baudrillar
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Modern Architecture’, 1977), impl
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perpetuation of dissensus - on a pe
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information because of media’s bi
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catastrophe and progress together
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theories, it has encouraged identit
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11. J. Baudrillard (1975), “ The
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article was published in 1901 and f
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Conversation FIRAQ GORAKHPURI IN HI
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and set definition for everything.
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