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1:53 hello Harpreet Kaur ji so today we are going to do Salman Rush hello Ashok ji welcome you guys hello Sandeep ji so finally we are back like this so I thought that without me sending messages people will come but for some reason they did n't come hello Deepak ji and thank you you sent papers on the group many people were disturbing me send the answer keys send the answer keys so today again
2:38 what did I say solid which is called threat in a way I said that brother I will remove papers from the group hello Amandeep I am fine hello to all of you from my side wait a second [music] so again hello to everyone from my side
3:24 actually today I forgot to turn off the extender and because of which the net was lagging a little so today we will do Salman Rushdi meanwell I will see your comments whatever happens don't think that I am not paying attention okay my focus is on everyone those who are new are welcome whether So you can join that group on Telegram group, you will not find it in the description of the video, the previous videos will be found in the last live streams, the link is given in it, still if you do not find the Telegram group, then like this comes in the home video channel playlist and then about, in about it is written below the blue line Telegram just began literature, so you can join from there, now the first question is that when you look at your syllabus, because it has been divided in
4:10 modern writers and contemporary, then the rules are correct, they come in contemporary writers, many people have sent me messages till the day before yesterday and asked why did you not take him in contemporary, why are you teaching him in Indian, so I hope those who have studied will know the origin or trace that brother, to a great extent there will be a talk of Naipaul because we have already discussed him yesterday that his roots are connected to India, okay, the kind of tradition they follow, so we have seen Naipaul's works in the pre-independent era during the British rule. Whatever we have faced from 1947 till many years and many centuries, whatever we have seen, whoever it may be, whether it was Mughals or anyone else, those are the things, something similar is there in them as well, that is why I
4:55 thought it more important to discuss it with Indians, I hope this thing would have become clear, so this full name Sir Ahmed is very important, okay, though you will find it Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, I have written it like this, okay, when you read his birth place somewhere, it is given that he belongs to Mumbai, that is, he belongs to Mumbai which is the capital of Maharashtra, as it is said, his birth place has been like that, if we talk about his family, when you get to know about his family, you will come to know that his mother was a teacher and his father was
5:41 ICS Indian Civil Services, which is a very well-known national level exam, but the problem was that he was not in this field, that means he must have cracked this exam, by the process, it happens, complete verification happens, documentation happens, so every single thing is there in any exam. If you see, whether it is private or government, bank, SSC, UPSC or any other state exam, then point to point decimal to decimal of that thing which is called data not data data, that thing is taken care of, so if for some reason the documentation was not complete, there was a difference in the age, the age was fair in the document and what was filled in reality, then
6:26 from there he was dismissed, so if he became a businessman, then it means that he was an educated lawyer, he studied from Cambridge, so this is the reason that when the family background is very strong emotionally, then those things also help you, so in his case, these things were very much in which he helped, so you have to keep in mind the full name, the second thing when you would have read about him, when you would have read his name in the search engine, be it Bing or MS or
7:29 Wikipedia, you will find a list in which it is said that he was among the few fellow members of the Royal Society of Literature, it was founded in 1820. And King George, though it is not necessary but at least you should know about King George because the history of England, that is, the United Kingdom, is very vast. So, there have been many members of FRSL, Anita Desai was also there. There are a few writers whose names we have only heard but they were also part of it. So the next time you read, keep in mind that Fellow Members of
8:16 Royal Society of Literature is very important. So, he was a literary personality, so he was awarded for it. The third thing means this is family background, right? The third point means according to me, there is fourth here, but I am assuming that there will be only one point. So the next thing that I want to discuss about him is that whenever his name comes to your mind, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I know that Marquez is not considered a writer in many universities, but magic realism, I should hardly discuss
9:08 magic realism, so what is magic? Beyond Reality, okay, it is super natural things, brother, they do not ignore those things, they use them and with reality, okay, so the fourth point is what did they use in their writing, the super natural powers, it has become magic, okay, they have used what is called black magic, that anything comes from nowhere, people are seen flying too, okay, so there is a sort of imagination, its use is in extreme, when you search magic realism, you will get to know that it is a kind of fiction, in fiction, any person can even move around on a broom, okay, so fictional movies, child fiction, which we call, movies of this kind are made whether it is Hollywood or to some extent in South India, which is okay, it is a
9:55 sort of imagination, to some extent it escapes from reality, so they have used it a lot in things, that is, the second thing of magic realism is historical fiction, now it is historical as well as fiction, actually this is within the same point, magic realism and historical Fiction but both the terms are different, the historical setting from the past, that is, some culture of some place, some building of some place, some heritage, we have used that plus we have given contribution to that, in fiction anything is possible, just like we see in our dreams that anything is possible, we can land anywhere, the same thing happens in fiction also,
10:42 I gave an example that you can even move around on a broom, okay, so this thing is often asked that which writer has used magic realism because you are an Indian writer, so it is possible that this thing will be given to you only in contemporary and Indian, till now whatever I have read, only these are such in which magic realism has been used, fortunately I have not read anyone else till now in whom there was magic realism, historical novel and historical fiction, okay so there is similarity, we have read that thing, we have read many historical writers who have used historical fiction, so he hardly asks this thing but ask this Hello to everyone from my side.
11:29 So what is it now and we have to take care of it. Now what were these points? This is six. Write six here. If you talk about nationality, then British Indian novelist. Now this is a very interesting thing because we all know about the fatwa. However, we will discuss it on a broad level that it has been said about him that due to a controversy, he was asked to leave India. Actually, when we read our preamble in the constitution, the word secular has been used in it. So, if we look at it according to that, then our entire constitution says that no state ever supports any religion, nor does it ever criticize it. So, what
12:16 happened was that he had written something and for that, he was criticized by the nation and the law and order said bye-bye to him because this is the right thing, what is called the correct thing, this is it. It was said that they should not be supported at that time and the protection that they got at that time, from where did they get it, they got that protection from the foreign government, so that is why they got nationality from there and we did not snatch the nationality here, that is why they are called British Indian novelists. If asked, it would only be a novelist, he was also an assistant and he was also a copywriter, it happens that this thing is mine, I have copyright on this thing, the
13:05 spelling of this will have to be checked, whether W will come or not, so now we will talk further, then we will also talk about his work, in an interview he was asked that you write about magic realism, it would be point number seven, I forget the point, I only remember the information, so this is a small thing, should we discuss it, first of all we will discuss, he was asked in an interview and that interview was also taken by an American agency, okay, PBS Public Broadcast Service, so PBS is a well known American agency which is called British, means broadcasting, so he gave an interview there and in that interview, the interview itself What did they ask that do you use magic realism, do
13:52 you really believe in God or other things, so he said for himself that I am yes, hard line atheistron the concept of God and scripture, which are religious texts etc., they do not believe in them at all, so for them the existence of God does not exist at all, so sometimes it asks, it is possible that it may ask that which of these writers has considered himself hard line atheistron, will we feel that or not, he will not ask this, but by the time we go for the exam, some things already go out of the mind
14:39 due to fear, now what is the thing about them and what to keep in mind that their settings are, mostly the settings they talk about are subcontinents, now how are those subcontinents, with respect to India, what all will you find in Eurasia, that is, Europe and Asia, that is, if you have studied geography, then you will be able to understand the concept that brother, there are neighboring countries around India, okay, if you are from Europe If we go towards it, then all the continents or plates are there, there are Indo Eurasian plates, Indo Australian, he has not written about Australia but about Europe because they use fences, so their setting will be mostly found there, if someone wants to listen, then Asia Indian Ocean Eurasia means Europe and Asia,
15:24 then neighbouring countries come, so the setting of the fiction that he has shown, he has shown the same thing about those continents, it is said that he has influenced a lot of people, now this is an interesting thing because he has left the impact on them, so Indo Anglican writers, now these are not the same Anglicans who are Anglican and Catholic, okay, so keep this thing in mind a little bit, this Indo Anglo, Indo means India and Anglo in the sense who face themselves as an outsider, if I say in simple words, then some of those Indian writers who are Indians by blood, but
16:10 about whom do they write, they write in English language, whatever they write, even if they use the setting of India, okay and Mostly the concepts that these writers write about are slavery, molestation, exploitation, which means that whatever kind of under colony they came to rule you, they were more powerful than you, whatever kind of contribution they made here, these writings are written about that kind of thing, so there is Mulk Raj Anand, there is Raja Rao, these are a few names that are said to have been influenced by Salman Rishi Ji as well, so if you look at the timeline, it is 1947, 19 June 1947, so if we got independence on 15 August 1947, then
16:56 before that they had come into that world, they are also the founders of this world, this is a pen, yes it is a pen, I Spun World Voice Festival, now why is it important because when any writer founds something like this, in a way, then it is important, actually this is a kind of literary week, if you don't know, if there was no corona at this time, then our biggest fest of English literature would have been in Jaipur. Jaipur Literary Fest is called that, online passes are available, many famous people, not from India but from all over the world come to India, it is a procedure of the whole week, they come to attend, it will not happen this time, so
17:42 it is also considered well known, I don't know if you had ever heard about it in the university or not, but for India, it is a very respectable time period, which is called that people come from outside, so PEN World Voice Fest, actually it is celebrated in foreign countries in New York and Los Angeles, so he is the founder, I told you about the interview of that festival, yesterday I remember when we were discussing VS Naipaul, discussing his awards, I had said that he got the award of Knighthood in Britain, so something similar happened with him as well, now the current one, that is to say around 2007, he also got some such well known title, so
18:28 keep this in mind a little bit about the award because this is not additional information, it is information about literature from my side. Hello to everyone, whoever is saying hello to me because today I am a little far away, the setup is fine and thank you fully credit goes to my brother that today he specially brought a stand of almost my height for me so that we could meet like this because I enjoy writing like this, so the year was 2007, so Queen Elizabeth Second, there were many, so Queen Elizabeth Second had honoured him, that is, in a way she knighted him for his services, now how can he write about literature, he was
19:13 praised, it is a very big thing, he has invented a word, it is said that invention is actually science, but he also writes about science, super natural things to some extent, which are beyond our control, so there is a word, chutney fiction, it is a very interesting name, now how will I remember this, it is a literary term, you must be feeling that it is a Hindi word, chutney, it is true, it enhances the taste, okay, flavour, but this word, this term is coined by Sir Ahmed Salman. What did Rushdie mean by this? Like you eat tikki, samosa, bread, pakora, there are many kinds of
19:59 flavors like chutney, so what happens is he adds on to that thing, enhances the flavor, enhances the taste, so this is one of his words. He believed that if more flavor is needed in the language, that is, flavor some, a proper word is flavor some and excitement, so when a writer wants these two things in his work, he does different types of experiments, like he did, he also added historical things like partition happened, okay, plus magic realism, that is, he also added super natural elements, so what did he say to him, what is this thing, Bhaiya, this is a term, chutney fiction, okay, so I found it a little interesting because as far as I read, I got this information from a very reliable source,
20:46 that's why I have included it, so this is a term, chutney fiction given by him, hello to everyone from my side, I am absolutely fine and I am expecting this Yes, all of you will be very good. Meaning, a little disturbance happens when there is less time. What happens to many people is that they do this question paper, they book that, they purchase this book and they book that. The sources that you have are enough. What is the main problem? You will have many sources. The main thing is to manage the time. You only have 24 hours, in that you have to eat, you have to sleep enough. Because if you sleep less for one day, or two days, or three days, after that the body will not wake up and headache starts. So take a little care of yourself. It is
21:33 not necessary to read this material, or that material too. Brother, you have not had the linguistics class. It will be difficult to make a concept. If something is made in 15 slides or 16 slides, then a lot of energy and effort is required behind it and plus the other thing is information. So people are studying even at 1 o'clock in the night, at 4-4 o'clock. The videos are running even at 3-3 o'clock, so let me tell you, if you are watching the class at this time, then give 100%, even when you are not watching, instead of running here and there, try to utilize your time in a more fruitful manner. I will just say that there is no need to run here and there, nothing will happen, whatever is there is fine, just revise it, try to revise as many times as you can, no
22:20 one has given the answer key of the complete paper, if that answer key is there, which paper am I talking about, those who have newly joined, actually Deepak Sharma ji has also come online on the Tegra group, he has also said hello, he has also said namaskar, so he has sent some papers on the groups of different states and people want their answer keys, hey, see only those questions from it which are of your syllabus, the complete answer key has been given, so now will you read all of them and what is the guarantee that 100% that thing would have been given in the answer key that was given, all of you have internet in your hands, we also So you are using this connection through internet, right? It is not that you should have any doubt anywhere. There will be 50 or 100 questions in that paper. All of them are useful for you. Read only those things which are useful for you. Try not to devote your time on those things. In those things, many things come up. What is this?
23:28 What did he say? Biryani recipe. Now what is this? He thought that this chutney enhances the taste. But he says that many times it happens that it becomes biryani. Although the flavour of biryani is very good, what happens is that many things are added to it to add different types of flavours. Okay, so this is another interesting thing that he used something and he got a response on that. Now let's move on to his work. Earlier, I was thinking that perhaps I will not be able to complete it today, but I have tried to get it done today. Let's talk about work. Thank you fully. Now I have come to work. Okay, but it is much
24:16 more interesting than what I thought it was. He is an interesting personality, if you read him, then talk about his work. The first work is Grimus, like our summer, it sounds something like that. Tell me the year of this novel. It is called the debut novel. The first work is Flapping Eagle. Now the super natural idea that he has talked about, that very thing will be found in most of his novels. Flapping Eagle is a character, a major character. So what is it? Brother, he has to become immortal. An immortal man is a mortal being. Now, what is a man, death is inevitable. This is a complete cycle. Otherwise, he has to become an emote.
25:04 Now, what happens is that someone tells him to drink this fluid. In a way, you must know that the fluid is a little thick, so one drinks it and he becomes mortal. There is also a reference to his sister. Now, what happens is that there is a hole in the Mediterranean Sea. So, one of these two characters, brother or sister, falls in it and then there is seven, then seven and then seven. So, this is some such figure. For many centuries, for many months, for many days. So you will get this ratio, it is easily available, you have to read only as much as the story is, you do not have to go here or there or forward or backward, if you go then you yourself are
25:50 responsible, okay, my job was to guide in a proper way, which I am doing my best in my way, but if you go here or there, then I am speaking clearly, then I am not responsible for anything, I have not taken a single rupee from you, I can give my best, okay, without any cost, so whatever has been given, kindly do not send me a different kind of message that madam, I am not getting its summary, I have told you many times that read the thing from where it is, it will come from there and you will be asked from there, okay, then read it, so it is called 1975 debut novel, Greems's first work is Flapping Eagle, and one means an exact one,
26:37 I do not remember the name of the sister, but I do not remember her first name, but in the last there is a dog, okay, so one more thing that you will keep in mind about it, two things, first that this It's science fiction brother, these things can only happen in science that some formula for an experiment is created and a person becomes invisible, okay, or a dead person is brought back to life, or like Frankenstein, by joining the corpses, life is given to someone, okay, so it's science fiction that someone drank a drink fluid and he became immortal from mortal, otherwise it is not possible, the second thing, a Sufi poem came out in the 12th century, its what is called base, that is, the basis, has been taken from there, so Sufis in a way are very into Sufism, okay, it has had
27:24 its culture in India, so this thing has been taken from there, so this was Grimus, Rajveer Kaur ji is coming now, what is the motive on Midnight Children, I am wondering I don't understand what is the motive of any writer who writes, for whom is that thing written, you are also a writer, I am also a writer, the only difference is that I am writing on the board and you will write in the exam, you are also a writer, the main motive of a writer is that the message he wants to give like a poet should be conveyed, okay and we should be able to give that message to the readers, listen, that is the biggest thing, so what you asked, now again I will take the name of Rajveer Kaur ji
28:12 that the message of Midnight Children is very clear, okay and you will get to know it now, in one of the interviews she was also asked that do you feel that the character of Saleem matches your character because there is a very cute line in it, I was born in Mumbai, ellipsis i.e. dot dot dot and then he says once upon a time, like there are moral stories for small children, once upon a time I was born in Mumbai, so if you trace their origin, then British Indian Nobelist, so this is their nationality, so this is it This origin is Mumbai, 19th June 1947, okay and if
29:00 you don't understand the theme of Midnight Children, then I will say that maybe your history has not been good, okay, so purpose is not called it, it is not called motive, what you are asking, motive is a color word extremely color word, so it is a 1981 novel, many people have admired it, no matter how many times I put most, it is less, so it is a must read text, you must read Booker Prize, Booker of Bookers Prize and Tech Award, okay, so it has received different types of awards, what is this, this is Independence Midnight, so Midnight
29:47 Children is the story of a few thousand and one children who were born on that night in 1947, so I think about this when I read the partition novel, earlier I was reading Shadow Lines, then I was reading it again, then the description given in it, so friend, I think that throughout life a person contributes that my home will be in this place, our people, okay, our relatives, our family and Suddenly someone makes an announcement one day that a boundary has been drawn, different nations have been formed, people belonging to this religion should go there, people coming from that place, so how difficult it must have been, how painful it must have been, so if you understand that kind of perspective, if
30:32 you have ever studied history and political science, then you will understand it at once that whatever people faced in 1947, whether they were Hindus or Muslims, whether they were from Pakistan or India, the boundaries have been made by the people, let me tell you, people who watch this channel, a very good proportion watch from India and a very good proportion watch from Pakistan as well, so if you understand this thing, then we are also human beings, people have the same emotions as you feel for your family, people must have felt at that time too, so he has tried to depict the same thing here that when independence was achieved, so how did people feel, the character of Saleem is
31:20 also something like this. It tells us that the line he said is in the beginning, a few lines of his, I was born in the city of Bombay, once upon a time, if someone is born in Bombay and suddenly you issue a fatwa and get him deported, then how difficult it is for that person to leave the people here, okay, whatever the compulsion may have been, okay, but till date I remember that recently in 2017 or 18, that is, not much time has passed, it was declared in the Jaipur Literary Fest that he will be in India, that is, at that time he would come and suddenly, a few hours before his day, he was refused, that is, due to airport security, the government, GOI
32:05 or the Government of India refused, saying that we will not give you entry, okay, so keep the same thing in mind when he is talking about migration, if you read it, you will come to know that many, that is, several lakhs of people migrated at that time, went from here and came from there, okay, and even now there are many families in India who say that our family members are some If a few family members live in another nation, then these things are also part of British colonialism. He has told three things about British colonialism, that how an outsider came and ruled and drew a line, which is called divide and rule, that before leaving he created a division, that
32:51 these people are not ours and we are not theirs, so he went and ruled, which is called looting, double OT, that when his purpose was accomplished, he left, okay, in a use and throw way, but what did he do before leaving, he created that division among the people and left and to tell you the truth, this must have been a very crucial point, we are living in the year 2020, when 207 comes, then it will be 100 years since both the nations were formed, but the pain is described by writers even today and if you think about it yourself, you will come to know that it is not easy and it does not get easy either, okay, so that is why the purpose of that writer was that he wants to generate your thinking that brother those people who are ruling a few What is their fault if they were born that day and night,
33:38 they will neither be called from here nor from there, okay, so migration has to be done within a few hours, so he has mentioned all those idols here, this is the reason that this novel has received the maximum awards and you must be aware of the awards, okay, when we will do the awards, we will discuss it, yes, Paramjeet Kaur ji who was the sister of Flapping Eagle, Bird Dog, yes, I remember, now the next one is their Naval, Shame, so now their idols are shifting a little, okay, I told you about partition, I told you about pen, now a little idol is changing, for whom is the idol, this is also a little interesting thing,
34:24 when did Shame come or Naval, please tell me the setting is Quetta, okay, which is not in India, you will have to keep a little reference in mind, if I talk about the main idea, then it is the same thing as partition, that we talk about country division, this is easily available and you must have read it as well, okay, so the idea of boundaries, international boundaries, two He talks about him among the nations, again that ideal was living, that thing behind the partition, plus there are two characters, it is said that he was compared with political personalities, when you read about him on Wikipedia, you will come to know about
35:10 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, okay, the proper name is mentioned, so this sir used to be a Pakistani barrister and in different years, there is a time period, just like there is a time period in India, so in Pakistan, he served as a prime minister, he also served as a president, so it is said that in this novel, Sikandar Sikandar Harappa, okay, if you remember the Harappa civilization, then the character of Sikandar Harappa matches with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sahab, okay, he was a Pakistani, so you will find references, other persons who were in it also have a very important role, General Raza Haider was in the government there, it is
35:56 said about him too that he also spent a very good time and something like this he It is said that this character of General Raza Haider is compared with Mohammad Zia- ul-Haq in this book. So the two political personalities are one was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the other was Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq. I am not writing this because you will find it. Fourth thing is The Satanic Verses. Yes, Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal talks about political term in Pakistan. So he has told about the term of India in Midnight Children. Now what did he say about the neighboring country because he felt that the pain that we feel, brother, they were
36:43 divided on the same day, they celebrate their independence on 14th August and we celebrate it on 15th. So this is the provincial capital, which is called the financial capital, in a way, Baloch Balochistan, which is Pakistan line wise, I don't know exactly. People who will see it from Pakistan, I apologize in advance for that thing because I do n't know the geographical location. This is the reference. So you can read it from anywhere. Also see, we don't have the right to hurt anybody's sentiments, okay, but I have already said about that thing that geographically I don't have that much idea about that thing and they won't even ask us, right?
37:29 Shame, yes, or I didn't tell the year of it. What's left? So the year of shame was 1983. It is written in a shameless way. It is written like this, The Satanic Verses. Controversial work, most controversial work. It would be wrong to say that. So Idol ji is now moving a little bit in that direction. Actually, it is said that this title, this Quran, which is their religious book, okay, there are some verses in it which are called Satanic. So, the religious gurus used to call them Satan. The word Satan was
38:15 used for them. Satan, okay, Satan Satanic sounds like that, right? Brother, by becoming absolutely shameless people, they are taking wrong messages about us and the thing is correct. I am not saying that their Idol ji is wrong. I also don't say that idols are right but if any religious leader or saint talks about any idol, people watch it so that you stay positive. But if you really convey a wrong message, then I don't think any government or any law will support you, people will not like you either. So there was a lot of controversy that there was a leader of Iran.
39:00 I don't know if he is alive today or not, but you will easily find his name. Ayatollah Ruhollah Mini. So he was the supreme governor, in a way he was the supreme leader of Iran. So he issued a fatwa that brother, what will we do now because you are portraying our religion, our Islam, our books, our Quran in a wrong negative light. So that's why we are issuing a fatwa to you. So what will happen now, if they start getting death threats, now as a citizen, whom will they go to? To the government, but our law says that we will not support anyone. So we are helpless. In a way, we are helpless on their part. That we cannot help you in any way. We give you fundamental rights, freedom
39:45 of speech is included in that, but you also have some duties that you will not hurt anyone's sentiments. Now, when you have done it, you are responsible for that. So, these are the things that happened. That is why it was called the most controversial work. Okay, this kind of claim was made in this regard, meaning a claim which was also a right in a way that Muslims accuse him of misusing freedom of speech. That you give a lot of gyaan, you use your speech, but make sure that you will not hurt anybody's emotions and sentiments. If you hurt someone's feelings, then you have to pay. Obviously, there is a critic, Ralph Bloom is a well-known name. I don't know how many of you have read his critic as a critic. He is a
40:33 well-known name. And he had said that this work, The Satanic Verses, is actually Rushad's aesthetic achievement. Achievement aesthetic is the same thing that brother what more art can you take than this what more craftsmanship or mastery can you show than this so in a way it was said that the novel Sat Verses which they wrote was their most artistic work at their level so they gave it the name aesthetic and so connected it with art next work yes Rajveer Kaur ji all of them had super natural powers in Midnight Children so now there is one last work which I will discuss after that only the names which you have to keep in mind which is
41:19 easily available on Wikipedia okay the texts which are all five texts you will have to read whatever summary has been given of it is all important so whatever summary you get of all the five texts there will be one or half text on which there will be only seven or eight lines otherwise there are four texts of all the five here I am discussing in The Moor Eye right now you will have to read it okay and keep in mind their awards, not very big or less awards, for which novel did he get the Booker Prize or Booker of Bookers he got the Best of Book Bakar got this thing, it's okay, all of them seem similar to us, Booker also seems the same, Booker of Bookers also seems the same, the
42:05 fifth thing is The Moor's Last Say, by the way, if I say the literal meaning then it means deep breath, taking a deep long breath, okay, so it came in the year 1995, you have to keep in mind that the setting in this is Bombay and where is it from, Kochi, Kochi, so there are two places where the setting is, it is possible that you might ask where can I find the references, so Bombay and Kochi, so one is in this direction, second here the
42:50 title, we don't know the Spanish history of the 15th century, so it has some connection with Spain, they have taken some references from the life of the Spanish kings, so you don't have to pay much attention, just keep in mind the title, from where was the title taken, on hearing the word Last Moorish Moor, I remember one thing, Othello the Moor of Venice, this is always added before his name, King of Granada, now where is Granada actually, it is in Spain, so This was the last Moorish king, so the word Moor has been taken from his name, it has not been stolen, it has been taken, so
43:37 now know his name as well, what is it, what is it, Bua Bua, now the title given to Dil is fine, the full name is Abu Abdullah Mohammed, this work had received two awards, one was Whit Bread, earlier I used to read it like this, I used to remember it by calling it white bread, isn't it? There is white bread, there is brown bread, so Whit Bread and the second one is Aristotle, it will be up and down, so both the awards, that means this was given in 1995 and
44:22 this was given in 1996, that's all you have to keep in mind about it, Amandeep Mann ji, I will only discuss the name of his work in the last, okay because questions are rarely asked from it, the questions asked are on Satan One versus P and Midnight Children, so if you are talking about the work that came in 2019, then if it is available online, you should read it. If not, then we will discuss it when I discuss the MCQ. Okay, I remember I have asked questions on a couple of things. I have also included works like The Chances of Florence there. So the attempt is to make
45:09 30-40 questions, which means I am talking about one hour in one slide. Whatever goes for one or two hours, we will discuss it there. Now let's talk about the works whose names you need to keep in mind. What is The Ground Beneet? Har Feet Har Feet? Tell me its year. Fury, Fast and Fury 200, Furious, Angry, Shalimar, The Clown. Okay, so a clown is the one whom the fools declare as 2005. Tell me its year. Yes, now comes The Chances
45:57 of Florence. A question was asked on this in some MCQ class. As far as I remember, I asked a question on this in some MCQ class. I have asked the year of this or whose work is this. This must have been asked next. I wrote it like this: O Years. By the way, the complete W is O Years 8. Months and 28 nights 28 nights now what is this description of, if you had read it you would have known but a question cannot be made out of it if you want to read it then you can read it I will not suggest The Ground Bint Har Feet yes Sandeep ji, Family Epic in a way so
46:47 1999 the first thing I will suggest is analyse last year papers, after that analyse the papers of other states which Deepak ji has sent, even then if you do not feel satisfied, then individually if you get involved in this work then the work will get spoiled and right now you are feeling that the date is far away
47:32 I had told you earlier also, then try to utilise your time smartly the rest is up to you The Golden House yes The Golden House 2017 its name was asked in some exam, whose work it is, okay you have to identify the name, work identification and then now it is because it sounds like Spanish, why do I remember it in small pieces like this in 2019, okay it is your wish How will you remember East comma West, this is a kind of collection, there was also Es East, is
48:19 n't it? This is a book, actually a book which has a collection of essays. Though this is the most important one because many times people ask what is East and West. If you search this term of Edward Said, Orientalism, Edward Said, I will not explain because then it will become the historical perspective of East and West, that is, the British felt that there was one direction, that is, they used to keep us in one place out of East West and in the other place they used to keep their country, so they felt that we are superior, that means the British are superior and we are inferior, so the concept here will become clear to you, the same East and West is the British versus
49:04 Indians, it is a collection that came in 1994, it is a collection of essays. Second thing, the last two things that are left are famous essays. Let me rub it, Paramjeet Kaur ji, this is actually like this. Okay, what you are saying about the collection of American short stories, in Wikipedia, they have it. There is a difference between the two things, right? So sometimes it happens that there is East and West, so there is a complete book, the most important thing in it is this, now it can also happen that in that collection he has written some essays and some stories, the main one will ask for identification, he is not giving you RTC reference to context, he will
49:50 ask what it is, I have told you the major idea of that thing, right, so take a look at what you are saying, the Collection of Stories is in Wikipedia, after this there is The Collection of American Short Stories, so what will America ask, first know about Indian, here people are not even getting clear about Indian, some famous essays, imaginary homeland, in some imagination, they have discovered their homeland in a way, right, let's see, they can only tell this that it was published in 1992, but the description that you will get in it will be from 1981 to 91, that is,
50:37 about 10 years, so in these 10 years Whatever he has seen over the years, whatever he has felt, whatever conflicts or disputes, disturbances he has had in political terms, social terms, in his personal life, the description of all of that is found in this. The last work of his that I would like to discuss is The East is Blue. The East is Blue, so the colour symbol used is blue. So if you see, the colour of the sky is also blue, so again it denotes superior. So after this, whatever is left of his are the awards. Now awards, you will tell me. Yes Amandeep Singh
51:24 ji, to some extent it has happened like this. When did I say that the East is blue, the colour of the sky is blue and what would be above it, we cannot even see above it, so it denotes superior. So the East used to call itself superior to the West, as Amandeep ji wrote and sent it. I did not want to clarify why because then I told me whose term it is, so I did not tell. Last come awards, tell me when did you get the Booker Prize. Okay, The Best of Booker Prize. Tell me when did you get it? Actually, I think you might have
52:10 read it. Okay, yes Sandeep ji, short stories. Okay, I have read only short stories. Okay, yes, you will find it in Wikipedia as well. Okay, that is why in Wikipedia, short story essays and short stories have been kept separately. In which East and West was separately. Then there is a column, this one with essays, in which Imaginary Homeland and The Skies are Blue separately. Then the collection of essays has been kept separately. Okay, so there is a book called Then, inside that, he has written some things which are novels. So, if he could not give it the form of a novel, could not give it the form of a novella, he
52:57 told it in a short story. Year 1981. So, in 1981, for which did he get the Midnight Children Booker of Bookers? Now, tell me in which year did he get the Booker of Bookers prize? Aman ji is saying that he got the Best of Bookers prize in 2008. That's right. If you
53:42 ask for which work did he get it, then no. Midnight Children has got the maximum number of awards. Okay, you can give more than that. Can't you give it to Sat Verses, so he got the Aston Prize and he got the Whit Bird Prize, whether it's bird or bread, whatever it is, it means okay, pay attention to 1993, if anyone else also wants to say 1993, then I will write it here, okay, so I hope this makes it clear to you that the Booker Award is coming in all three things, but all three awards are different, so if you ask anything, then these three awards have been given in different categories, keeping in mind different time periods, that is,
54:30 81, 2008 and then 1993, people form their opinion on this, so in 1993 there is one more award of his, which was given for Midnight's Children, okay, James Tate, I will write his full name here, that is the last thing, today's awards, there are all the others as well, you will search in Wikipedia, like press that button or icon, you will find them, but one thing that you must not forget is the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, James Tate Black Memorial Prize, so tell me about the award Two, tell me the year of this, these four awards should not be forgotten, we have to remember them. Well, there are
55:18 more questions about their works than the awards. Tell me quickly, 1981 came, the answer for Nadeep ji is 1981, so from my side, today we have discussed the works of Salman Rushdie sahab, which writers will we discuss tomorrow, by the way, I don't want to waste even four or five seconds. Okay, whatever happens. Yes, I will tell the group that finally this week I have to finish it at any cost so that I can jump directly to Linguistics. So tomorrow we will discuss who will remain. If Tagore is left and Khushwant Singh is left, then first we will do Rabindranath Tagore on Board of Peace. So, happy good night from my side to
56:05 everyone. Keep studying and stay happy. Don't take tension, revise. Revision is very important. If you will not revise, you studied the whole year and did not revise. In three hours, that thing did not come out of your mind. It is a complete waste. Your one revision may take you ahead of people in rank or merit. Your not revising can also take you behind in merit. So, point by point matters. One it counts. I hope that the message that I want to give in the simplest words must have reached you from my side. So,
56:50 be happy. See you tomorrow.
