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From 'Undermining the Idea of India', Written and Narrated by Gautam Patel
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A searing manifesto for troubled times in India.
‘India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is.’
With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbability-the ‘Constitutional’ idea of India. Justice Patel argues that the devolution of power is necessary for the survival of any liberal democracy, maintaining the idea that ‘the right to choose one’s own government is the right to dissent.’ Decrying the portrayal of politics as sport, Patel elucidates the strategies and tactics used by ‘nimble’ governments to enforce a culture of ‘broad-spectrum illiberalism’. A champion of transparency in the judiciary, Patel argues that the Internet and the judiciary must serve as beacons in this age of precarity. A timely text that comes at a juncture where liberal democracies across the world are facing existential threats, Undermining the Idea of India is a searing manifesto for our troubled times.
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  • @abrarnadim00
    @abrarnadim00 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my all time favorite authors! Miss you ma'am !!😢

  • @maria.s1326
    @maria.s1326 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very proud of this brave woman who is truly an inspiration. 🙏

  • @somavapaul2054
    @somavapaul2054 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She is one of the most forceful writers of this century.....my salute to her

  • @user-qj5fd5vz1m
    @user-qj5fd5vz1m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is so enthralling to look at this woman's point of view and register what she says. This a raw depiction of a writer. Often times, we glamourize the lives of actors, writer, any artists in general without really understanding how they have lived their lives. What makes Mahasweta stand out is her attempt to penetrate the hearts of people from all social and economic positions. She voices the voiceless. A lot of people complain about reservations and although sometimes it is unfairly used, a headstart is necessary to people who have been subjugated and suppressed for so long. Mahasweta writes to understand them, to speak for them. Many writers write to appeal to the general mass- the middle to high-class society but Mahasweta writes so that the common and the marginalized people, the people who don't have strong grasp over the language can understand her and this thought-process is divine. Mahasweta Devi is so raw, so natural. She does not vascillate while speaking about her personal life but goes on to talk about even the emptyness that most of us feel within. When she says that she had to leave Bijon, her first husband, because their marriage was not working out, she also says, "I left him but do not think i did not bleed for it." This perfectly captures the raw emotions of a woman who has to leave her marriage. This is when she begins to feel increasingly lonely and empty and finds her truest fulfillment in her writing. Although, criticized for her writing by her family-Asit, the second husband calling her writing "mundane", Mahasweta's father's friends saying "what will she write?"- Mahasweta never lets it affect her negatively. She goes on to speak for the marginalized section of the society and becomes a socially activised writer, engaging not just with her subjects but also their struggles and protests.

  • @user-qj5fd5vz1m
    @user-qj5fd5vz1m 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is so enthralling to look at this woman's point of view and register what she says. This a raw depiction of a writer. Often times, we glamourize the lives of actors, writer, any artists in general without really understanding how they have lived their lives. What makes Mahasweta stand out is her attempt to penetrate the hearts of people from all social and economic positions. She voices the voiceless. A lot of people complain about reservations and although sometimes it is unfairly used, a headstart is necessary to people who have been subjugated and suppressed for so long. Mahasweta writes to understand them, to speak for them. Many writers write to appeal to the general mass- the middle to high-class society but Mahasweta writes so that the common and the marginalized people, the people who don't have strong grasp over the language can understand her and this thought-process is divine. Mahasweta Devi is so raw, so natural. She does not vascillate while speaking about her personal life but goes on to talk about even the emptyness that most of us feel within. When she says that she had to leave Bijon, her first husband, because their marriage was not working out, she also says, "I left him but do not think i did not bleed for it." This perfectly captures the raw emotions of a woman who has to leave her marriage. This is when she begins to feel increasingly lonely and empty and finds her truest fulfillment in her writing. Although, criticized for her writing by her family-Asit, the second husband calling her writing "mundane", Mahasweta's father's friends saying "what will she write?"- Mahasweta never lets it affect her negatively. She goes on to speak for the marginalized section of the society and becomes a socially activised writer, engaging not just with her subjects but also their struggles and protests.

  • @madhavmankar1898
    @madhavmankar1898 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice Great Artist. Leat Shri k. G. Subrominm. mani.Shriji. Manidai.❤🎉M.S.U. Fine Arts, Textile Designers.Thanks you.

  • @sandipgarai9284
    @sandipgarai9284 ปีที่แล้ว

    ♥️

  • @sandipgarai9284
    @sandipgarai9284 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mahasweta Devi one of the best writer... And my favourite one....

  • @antaramukherjee2292
    @antaramukherjee2292 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful! Congratulations and best wish for the journey ahead!

  • @abinrajgooglegoogleaccount9391
    @abinrajgooglegoogleaccount9391 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Real art from a great painter👍🖼️🎨

  • @Litpassion24
    @Litpassion24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    All exam points on mahasweta Devi th-cam.com/video/qRCiitOhAvw/w-d-xo.html

  • @eyefry
    @eyefry 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic

  • @eyefry
    @eyefry 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was wonderful.

  • @rajeshmehtadance
    @rajeshmehtadance 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best wishes and grow day by day...Happy Reading Books.

  • @saswatichakraborty7053
    @saswatichakraborty7053 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Banglar Agatha Christie jodi keu hon tahole hoyto seta ini chara keu na !!! 🙏🙏🙏

  • @mousumichakraborty4866
    @mousumichakraborty4866 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    FAMOUS WRITER MA HAS WETA DEBI R INTERVIEW JE NICHE SE BANGLA BHASA TE I INTERVIEW NI TE PARTO...ATO SORIR JHAKIE PROPERLY ENGLISH NA BOLTE PERE SUDHU PRETEND KO RE SOBAI KE BO KA BANANO JAE NA. BANGLA BHASAE INTERVIEW NI LE TO KONO KHOTI CHILO NA

  • @jamalsardar678
    @jamalsardar678 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enar galpa ami porechi khubi hridoy bidarok kahini hoy thake.

  • @subhadiplaha4483
    @subhadiplaha4483 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    বাংলার দেবী।।। তার করুনস্পর্শী কথা মুগ্ধ করে আমায়।

  • @ardhendusekharchatterjee8854
    @ardhendusekharchatterjee8854 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mahasweta Devi Annesha Chatterjee Ex Coordinator,Voices, The Statesman Kol (2014-18) Student- Class X11 Kalyani University Experimental High School, Kalyani , Nadia As I heard, my knowledge has started with the writings of Mahasweta Devi. My father brought a book ‘The Tree’. The book is a Bengali translation of an English book, published by Nehru Child Book Trust. Mahasweta Devi was the translator. As a kid’s eyes always know with a tree of the external world, so the little ten-rupee book used to denote a lot of fun and quarry. The tree, is the only animals’ inter-earth surviving essentials. Later I have heard a lot about Mahasweta Devi, who took the self-service to help the then undeveloped tribal’s as present in Bengal mainly. Anthropologically, they are belonging to Caucasians. Genetically, they have a gentle amiable life. Sociologically, they were mainly maintaining a forest life. Since the British era, with the industrial revolution, the wealth of forest was identified. Those who were used to leave in a place since a long and long years, they started to be removed, by hook and kook. Definitely, after the independence it became more violent. From different headings of The Statesman, we came to know, how they were forcefully de-touched from their birthplace by many organizations, how they are being used as a testing-medium of violent medicines. Mahasweta Devi, was one of the fewer of India, who sacrificed her whole life to do something good for those ‘? God Banned Group of People’. Her research place was in adjacent Bihar, Odisha, and West Bengal in favour of the tribal’s like the Shabars, the Keriyas, the Santhals, the Hos, and the Mundas, from whom the forest has been taken away. The more importantly ,the writer-stayed in their huts, shared their food, opened her home to them, highlighting their problems through her writings, even fought long lasting court cases on their behalf of them ,for which she spent lots of money from own pockets! They called her as ‘Ma’. In a day of Poush Sankranti, 14 January 1926, in Dhaka, present Bangladesh, the eminent writer (more particularly, the social reformer) was born in the home of Manish Ghatak, a great poet of ‘Tagore-follow-Era’. Her mother Dharitri Devi was a writer and social worker. She was the eldest of her ten siblings. Her uncle, Ritwik Ghatak, was an epoch-making filmmaker (creator of Magha-Dhaka-Tara). Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) founder Sachin Chowdhury and sculptor Shankha Chowdhury were her maternal uncles. Mahasweta studied English at BisvaBharati, Santiniketan. She married Bijon Bhattacharya, one of the Indian People’s Theater Association, and later after birth of her only son Nabarun, she was de-touched from Mr. Bhattacharya. Later, she married Asit Gupta that was also not continued. She had fallen in economic crisis after being de-touched from Mr.Bhattacharya, for she had to make a door-to-door business. Then,she started to teach in VIjaygarh College. Later,she started to write in Jugantar and then just to set the feathers. Mahasweta devi had a wonderful singing voice. She was Suchitra Mitra’s contemporary in Shantiniketan. On descending from a high culture-established family, her intension was to break the social barriers’ by any means. Her desire-aversions of personal to social life pushed her to fight and fight endlessly. While in Class ‘V’, we read her edited book;’Khushir Pora’ . In this book, she adjusted many of writings without her. In the textbook, a story on Birsha Munda (Birsha Munda’r Ulgunan/ revolt) was there. Later, I verified the story during the study of history. In the Study of Class IX, a fairy story Jhoro-Sadhu/ Storm Creator Sages, I read interestingly. In her 6-decade of her literary career, Mahasweta Devi authored over 120 books, comprising 20 collections of short stories and around 100 novels , most of which were woven around the tribal life. In the industry of film, there were 8 film made with her writings. Possibly, many of her work might be lost because she used to send the original manuscript of her writing to the publishers. She was a recipient of Sahitya Academy Award (1979), Jnanpith Award (1996), Ramon Magsaysay Award (1997), Honoris causa, IGNOU (1999), Padmam Vibhusan (2006), Banga Vibhusan (2011) awards and so on. This radical activities and flame writer was expired on 27 July 2016, Thursday in Kolkata. Mamata Banerjee, CM, WB, correctly emphasized the expiry as ‘India has lost a great writer, Bengal has lost a glorious mother’, and by Mr Narendra Modi as ‘Mahasweta Devi wonderfully illustrated the might of the pen. A voice of compassion, equality & justice …’

  • @DeviRoshni
    @DeviRoshni 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    "I wrote through it all" She's so resilient, you can see it, feel it in her words. (And as inappropriate as it sounds, Naveen seems like a delectable guy)

  • @salildsakhalkar
    @salildsakhalkar 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a great man! Manida!

  • @crazycarolful
    @crazycarolful 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    yeah baby yeah !! luv ya xx

  • @crazycarolful
    @crazycarolful 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    mahasweta baby i luv ya long time call me xo

  • @12345678928072
    @12345678928072 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    EXELLENT!!!