Talk with an Author Mahenrdasinh Parmar

            

         

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On the Friday, 15^th September 2017, Department of English MK Bhavnagar University has arranged a session with Gujrati short story writer and acclaimed  essayist Prof. Mehendrasinh Parmar  on his Gujarati short stories like Polytechnic, Now Which Polytecnic and  Udana Charakaladi.

                     Last Year, we have talk on Intellectual Indubhai, short story written by him where he read his story in front of us , it’s golden opportunity to hear the story from the Author himself because in literature, it can be said that it’s not easy to understand the point of view of an author or poet behind his/her particular work and we can’t know that which meaning is given by them like in Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s , case when people asked them about the meaning of their plays, they said that they are not sure for the particular meaning it’s up to the audience that how the meaning can be taken by viewers.

                  In the beginning, he talked about  his troubles to published his stories because the subject of that, it’s not normal but serious one that is of the problem of sanitation ‘Suachalay’(Toilet) with connection of  the Hindi movie Toilet- Ek Prem Katha (2017). He has written his stories in 2002 about the problems of women collectively in first two stories while in third one it presented individually in his surrounding areas of Bhavnagar like ground of A.V school, Navapara. When we see this movie, we find many similarities with these stories but it’s not clear that it based on it. It’s like George Orwell’s work ‘Nineteen Eighty four’ which is published in 1949 but it talks about the future situation of 1984,same thing we find here that story written earlier (2002) about the recent problems  but it connects future situation of 2017 also . At some level of art of film making, movie Toilet fails in connecting the idea as love theme or problem of sanitation highlights in that. In all these three stories, I  liked the most is third one because of it’s tone of dialogues in comic relief otherwise all three stories are best in it’s dialect ,stress at important place, tone of Gujrati  language which is effectively spoken by writer himself.

Thank You,