Stay Alone means a
lot….
Stay alone means stay safe
for nowadays….
Stay Safe doesn’t mean
that stay unlearned….
And Stay Learned doesn’t
mean that staying between Textbooks….
In my sense an effective
way for learning is nothing but reading books. Books can be anything…Literary works, Genre based books,
Magazines, Newspaper and even a Piece of Notice that
can read will come under this. So….for me…. Those things that make us
learned are those things that are readable. Reading
is a kind of learning….and it doesn’t want a space physically….Reading can happen
anywhere and at anytime….during Rush, during Day or Night, during Travel, during
in Prison or even in the time of Quarantine….
Being in these days of
Quarantine, as a detachable person reading is a time killer and at the same
time a perfect way for entertainment as well as learning. As I said reading can
be in isolation but it is not a confinement. Because it gives freedom in thinking
as it is a flow in imaginations above boundaries and learning beyond the
limits….With reading we can Watch, we can Feel, we can Touch, we can Sense
etc….So, I’m going to suggest two works which are my favorites that helps you
to fulfill whatever as said above….and I think it will works even for a starter
too…The first work I’m going to suggest is one of the most famous gothic novel,
may be you guys are familiar with…Bram Stoker's DRACULA. It is an
1897 novel by this Irish author i.e. Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist
the vampire Count Dracula. This work has been attributed to many literary
genres including Vampire Literature, Horror Fiction and Invasion Literature.
Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of letters, diary
entries, ship’s logs etc…So I think it is easy to complete every chapter within
six or seven days if we read with two or three chapters in each day. Along the
work we go through many enigmatic themes like the role of Women in Victorian
culture, conventional and conservative Sexuality, Immigration, Colonialism,
Post colonialism and Folklore. So as a simple but poignant work Dracula
covers a wide range of interesting Panorama of themes throughout the pages.
Widely spoken, although Stocker did not invent the Vampire, the novel’s
influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for
many theatrical, film and television interpretations throughout the 20th
and 21st centuries. And especially for me even now this work and its
antagonist haunts like a Cruel Romantic Shadow….
The next work I’m going to
share with you is an Indian Drama, YAYATI, written by the very
famous actor cum writer Girish Karnad.A play written in Kannada during 1960, Yayati was
Karnad's first play and the best I have read so far. A small play in four acts,
it uses the mythological theme of King Yayati that appears in
the Mahabharata as a construct. Based on this construct, the playwright covers
many usual, simple but valuable themes like
responsibility, familial relationships, violence and cruelty, god and religion
etc. Surprisingly the themes of Oedipal Complex (mother - son relationships) as
well as the projection of weird women characters were amazingly portrayed in this work. Even though it is a
historical based story it realizes many comparable or relative points that can
correlate with our own lives and many applicable intuitions and morale that we
can adaptable in ourselves. May be it is a simple story in its crust but its IMPACT
is overwhelming.
