Sunday Reading Task "Post-Truth"

This Blog-post is a response of Sunday Reading Task, about  "Post-Truth" which given by Prof. Dilip Barad Sir.To know more about Post-truth, visit Barad sir's blog, to visit, CLICK HERE. 

                                                                    

"The Oxford Dictionary"declare the word of the year in every year.In 2016, the word was "Post-truth." They also given the shortlist of nominated words.However, of that time's circumstances and social or political environment, after a long discussion and debate, Post-truth word was chosen by them. To know about more of this word, just go through this link and CLICK HERE.

Definitions:

According to Oxford Dictionary, Post-truth is an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. 

While,Cambridge Dictionary defines that, 'relating to a situation in which people are more likely to accept an argument based on their emotions and beliefs, rather than one based on facts.'

In this both definitions, What I found, the central thing is that about people's beliefs, their personal concept regarding that particular situations. People's emotions also played very vital role of this Post-truth concept. 

If we see post truth in the term of'Post-truth politics,' In 2016, US had elected new Government. Donald Trump was the Prime Minister of the country. And after several analysis, that people came to know that Trump was what actually not able to take a leadership of their country. As usual, in every political party or leaders doing that about keep promising with people which about present situation and preserving to them for the particular situation.Thus, in general topic, one political leader's strategy to achieve people's beliefs. But on the other hand we must talk about that, Why people make them like this, for themselves? People when they came to know about that political leader who's some sign are not good to take a leadership of the Nation, and on that time, these people are raise up their voice against the same leader but the emotions are totally changed. They raised their voice from belief to angriness. And we finally called it Post-truth. 

Perspective is the chief object of the result and sometimes the main reason of the result also. It makes the result in truth way or in false way. It's depends on humans thinking activities or their role of playing in society. In this picture, if one see in one side, it's seems four and the another side it seems three. E.g. If I stand in right way, that time I am right for myself but not for the other who are stand the other side and they are not agree with my point. It happens exactly for them in opposition way. Basically, it's also happened in post-truth concept. 

Here, I would like to put some cartoon images and try to illustrate it:

This cartoon is created by Patrick Chappatte who is one famous Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist.

People believe on what they want to believe. If the truth is with full evidence then also not working. The reason is that people are make their sense on the basis of believing. In this cartoon, media says that some aspects helped to Trump to win election. But what actually people get that this truth looks like fake news! This is the side effect of post-truth which given by government. They don't go to search out what exactly the truth is. But in generally, they easily believe on what their leader said.

At our modern time, people uses social media as their own valley of dark side of untruth. In this cartoon, one person see on the way of Truth but another person says him that, 'ignore that- social media tells me that the truth is a conspiracy to keep us in our place.' Truth is the phenomenon of the situation. In post truth, truth is  reopened while at the first time people were not believed on that. But the truth is not opened in entirely. It's open in one by one layer. We go one layer to other layer through  some evidence. We are not store in one place! we just stored that what the thing we believe, we accept it as a reality whereas it's not truth.  

If we talk about "Modern Propaganda" which is our Social Media. Most of us read every posts and what our first reaction towards the particular post is that we easily believe on that and we also react in the same way. Most of us are not try to search out that Is it right or wrong?

In this video, Jonathan Henry Sacks introduced four books are related to post-truth. Which are,

• First was 'Post Truth' by Matthew D'ancona​. 
• The second one was 'Post Truth' by James Ball.
• The third was 'Post Truth' by Evan Davis​. 

This word was very speedily spread on 2016 during Presidential Election in US. Donald Trump was the prim-minister. People who were already aware about what are bed signs of him despite of, people vote him and made him a prim-minister. There were lots of debate on this topic. Not only US,but India and many other country also. Perhaps it happens because it purely connected with politics. 

  

In this video, there are lots of things perhaps will clear likewise, 

Why it is too important in this contemporary time?

Who create this? people or politic leader? 

Is it fact, if yes then how much it valued? 

Who spread dirtiness in propaganda? 

Thank You.

  

Sunday Reading Task: Lockdown - A poem by UK's poet laureate Simon Armitage

 This blog post is a response of Sunday reading task, given by Dilip Barad Sir.To know more about this Task CLICK HERE

"Lockdown" is very popular poem written by English poet or Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. The poem addressed the corona-virus and the pandemic situation. It moved the outbreak of bubonic plague in Eyam, in the 17th century.Here is the poem:

First half of the poem:

And I couldn’t escape the waking dream of infected fleas

in the warp and weft of soggy cloth

by the tailor’s hearth

in ye olde Eyam.

Then couldn’t un-see

the Boundary Stone,

that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,

thimbles brimming with vinegar wine

purging the plagued coins.

Which brought to mind the sorry story

of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre,

star-crossed lovers on either side

of the quarantine line

whose wordless courtship spanned the river

till she came no longer.

This part of the poem, Armitage took references from Eyam's boundary stone which contained six dark holes. Villagers put their money in the hols and then fill with vinegar wine as a hope that it's become cleans.He also put the sorry story of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre. These two lovers not able to meet because of plagued. 

Second half of the poem:

But slept again,

and dreamt this time

of the exiled yaksha sending word

to his lost wife on a passing cloud,

a cloud that followed an earthly map

of camel trails and cattle tracks,

streams like necklaces,

fan-tailed peacocks, painted elephants,

embroidered bedspreads

of meadows and hedges,

bamboo forests and snow-hatted peaks,

waterfalls, creeks,

the hieroglyphs of wide-winged cranes

and the glistening lotus flower after rain,

the air

hypnotically see-through, rare,

the journey a ponderous one at times, long and slow

but necessarily so.

In this second half of the poem, poet try to sleep again and now he saw a dream of Kalidasa's Meghatudta which in, Yaksha send the message through the passing cloud to his wife. Armitage used here Kalidasa's one of the great imaginary work. When cloud passed he saw several beauty of nature or culture also. He saw camel tracks and cattle track, peacocks, painted elephants, meadows and hedges, bamboo forest,snow-hatted peaks,waterfalls, creeks and many more.

This messenger shows perhaps every human being's deep desire to see the world during pandemic. Armitage used it to show that till now we have our own country or never-ending beauty.Here poet also described to East from West. In the last two lines, long and slow but necessarily so. He mentioned that the time of pandemic will be better again in the future. It's process is slow and long period of time but at the result we all meet together very soon and healthy manner. 

 

Here I have tried to express my agitation trough this poem:

I'm the curious soul nowadays.

To know the world from the world!

I'm the nervous soul nowadays.

To know the situation to be controlled.

Can I create the another Ram Setu?

Can I bring the stones from ancient Ram Setu?

I'm the happiest soul with deep desire,

I'm very narrower with huge fire.

Can I bring the fire of Lanka's?

Can I throw the stones in Shore?

If I throw the stones,

How can I bring them again?

Bcz I need them now as the blessings

as the medicine of Corona's.

May I have the God's blessings like monkeys?  

                                                  -Divya Sheta.

Sources: 

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Sunday Reading: Visit to an Art Gallery: Ajanta Exhibition

Thursday, 30 September.

Sunday Reading: Visit to an Art Gallery: Ajanta Exhibition.

Our last Sunday Reading was given by Barad Sir that visit to an Art Gallery at Khodidas Paramar Art Gallery Sradarnagar, Bhavanagar. There was Ajanta Exhibition for three days.It is known as City Museum also. 

About Art Gallery:

Khodias Paramar one of the prominent figure in our Artistic Personalities. He was born at Bhavanagar. His best contribution to the fine art or introducing to upcoming generation about the art or ancient painting.This Art Gallery is owned by Government. Last Sunday there is Ajanta Caves Pictures Exhibition. My colleagues took videos and clicks for those students who were not able to go there or  lived out of station.Here some pictures taken by my colleagues:

Posture of Exhibition. 

This is an outlook of city museum. 

Entering Gate with the painting of Khodidas Paramar Sir. 

Exhibition had started with Khodidas Sir's painting Photo.

Visitors who observing various paintings. 

Real painting picture of Padmapani from the cave.

          

In this wall mural, Padmapani was notable avatar of 108 avatars from Avalokiteśvara, who holds in his hands one lotus which in Sanskrit we can say "Padma" This Bodhisattva described as described and portrayed in different culture as either male or female. In this mural, there is one Kinnara on, over the right side of mural or some other devotional humans on there. May be they are seeing to Padmapani in very deeply way.To see Padmapani, he has curly hair or heavy "Tiara." Also wear one beautiful Perl necklace or earrings. From observing his wearing style, it's shows the ancient looking of Buddha's time or nearby there.     

Painting picture of Padmapani from the exhibition. 

 

Here, In this video,one my colleague introduced various paintings.

About Ajanta Caves:

• 30 spellbinding Buddhist prayer halls and monasteries carved.
• A horseshoe-shaped rock face in a mountainous region of India’s Maharashtra state, 450km (280 miles) east of Mumbai, were ‘discovered’ by accident in 1819.
• Since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Air look of Ajanta Caves taken from the nearby hill.

A scene from Vidurapandita Jataka: the birth of the Buddha.

This video introduced to Historical Transition of Ajanta Cave.

Resources:

• Padmapani's Image:Wikipedia
• Ajanta Cave's Image no.1
• Ajanta Cave's Image no.2
• Introductory of art gallery-Video
• Last Video