Sports Committee Report English Department

 Sports & Recreation Committee:-

 Kailas Gohil
 Hetal Dabhi
“Sport has the power to change the World”.       – Nelson Mandela
       
 Sports committee members:-  Dhaval ,  Nirali, Ruchita, Rajdeep, Nasim,
                                                       Urvashi, Minkal, Richa, Nikita.
                              We had a great experience as a part of sports committee leaders. In one year as a part of sports committee leaders we learn many  things like, how to maintain our physical fitness, important of time, team work, time management etc.
                     
                        In sports committee our responsibility like, to encourage the students to participate in various sports activity, to bring awareness about physical fitness, to bring out their talent.  Organize of National Sports day celebration and celebration of International Yoga Day.  As a sports committee leaders we gave information to students like, rules of particular games, how to fill up the form particular sport completion.

                      Sir played Sepak Takraw game first time on National Sports Day. Sir played Lawn Tennis in Khel Mahakumbh.


 All Activity:-

1. Badminton: - Urvashi, Nirali, Monika, Pina, Hina, (In Dabble Played Nirali and Pina).

2. Squash Girl: - Divya 6th Place, (In university selection Stand by 1st).

3. Squash Boys: - Rajdeep and Ashish.

4. Lawn Tennis Girl:- Divya, Hina, Monika, ( Monika 7th, and Uravshi 6th Place in inter University Stand by).

5. Lawn Tennis Boys: - Rajdeep.

6. Gymnastics :- Kailas 7th Place in inter University,

7. Rifle Shooting:- Sanjay Jogadiya

8. Cross Country:- Kailas, Nasim

9. Sepak Takraw :- Hetal ,Kailas, Pina, Hina, ( Hetal 10th, Pina 11th Place in inter university stand by, first match with Sakrya arts college, win the first match, second match with NMC.)

10. Khel Mahakumbh 2019:-   Lawn Tennis: Urvashi, Monika, Kailas in Spot Climbing.

11. Dessert Tracking In Jesalmer: - Pina.

12. Cultural Activity: -Dhaval (Mime and Nrutya, National Youth Festival).

13. Kailas: - 1. Himalaya Tracking In Manali ( Deo Tibba, 16,500 feet)
                2. Rock Climbing Basic Course as a Trainer
               3. Spot Climbing as a in Official Khel Mahakumbh
               4. Girnar Assending descending Compition as a Trainer
               5. 26th National Adventure Festival Participated.
     14. International Yoga Day celebration 21st June, 2019.
     15. National Sports Day Celebration 29th August, 2019.

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‘The Sense of an Ending’ Comparison Between Male Character and Female Character, and about Suicide

Topic:-  ‘The Sense of an Ending’ Comparison Between Male Character and Female Character, and about Suicide

 Name: Kailas Gohil
 Roll No: 13
 Paper No:- 13 ( The New Literature)













 Introduction:-


 About Writer

    Julian Patrick bones is 19 January 1946,  Leicester, England. He was Pen name is Dan Kavanagh. He was residence in London, England. He was a writer. His Notable awards..
- Prix Femina (1992)
- Order des Arts et des Letters (2004)
- Man Booker Prize (2011)
For his book ' The Sense of an Ending’. There of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize….
- Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
-  England, England (1998)
- Arthur and George (2005).

He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. His parents were French teacher. He has said that his support for Leicester city football club. He has educated at the city of London. He was written Novels, Collection, Non- fiction, Short Story etc…..
His Novels….
1. Metroland (1980)
2. Before She Met Me (1982)
3. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
4. Staring At The Sun (1986)
5. A History of the World in10 ½ Chapters (1989)
6. Talking It Over (1991)
7. The Poreupine (1992)
8. England, England (1998)
9. Love, etc.. (2000)
10. Arthur and George (2005)
11. The Sense of an Ending (2011)
12. The Noise of Time (2016)
13. The Only Story (2018).
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 About Novel:-

The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by British author Julian Barnes. Narrated by a retired man named Tony Webster, the book centers around his friendship with a young man named Adrian Finn back when he was in school, and the events that eventually tore them apart. When the past catches up with Tony, he is forced to confront the paths that he and his friends have taken in life. Exploring themes such as death, regret, and reminiscence, The Sense of an Ending is noted for its unconventional narration: both parts are narrated by Tony, but they skip back and forth between Tony’s teen years with Adrian and the arrival of a mysterious document during his twilight years. The Sense of an Ending was critically acclaimed by the majority of reviewers, although some found its bleak tone off-putting.

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”

 .Characteristic:-

- Tony Webster
- Adrian Finn
- Robson
- Sarah Ford
- Veronica Ford
- Alex and Collins etc….

 Comparison between Male character and Female Character:-



1. Tony’ Webster/ Veronica Ford
Tony Webster and Veronica were in love with each other. She was from a High-class family and Tony was from middle-class family. Because of this reason, Veronica’s father was upset with Veronica and insulted Tony a lot. After Adrian’s arrival in Veronica’s life, she broke up with Tony and started spending her life with Adrian.
After few years we can observe a vast different in the character of Veronica. First, she was a girl and after these many years, she was a woman as well as mother. She has got maturity in her life after Adrian’s suicide and her mother’s death. She has taken care of Junior Adrian and proved herself a good mother and a noble woman. She was taking care of her boy friend and her mother’s child. This is not an easy step to take in life; she has faced difficult time when she came to know that his boyfriend and his mother booth are in a relationship.
   
        On the other hand, if we observe Tony and his behaviour he seems like the same boy he was in school. He is not able to understand anything that Veronica wants to tell you and ultimately Veronica gave up on him and told him that...

“You just don’t get it, do you? You never did, and you never will.”

       Tony is not able to understand what was happening in his and Veronica’s life. He used to concern Veronica a ‘woman of Mystery’.

“Of course, at times I’d been tempted to set her down as the woman of mystery, as opposed to the woman of clarity I married in Margaret. True, I hadn’t known where I was with her, couldn’t read her heart or her mind or her motivation.”

          He was also not able to understand Veronica and her desires and perhaps that can be the main reason of their break up and Veronica’s attraction towards Adrian.
     
         If we observe Veronica’s behaviour, we can feel her hatred towards Tony. Her silence is the anger of her. There is one scene where Veronica is driving a car and Tony is sitting beside her. Tony asks questions but Veronica is preferring being silent rather than explaining everything. She wants Tony to understand everything as his own. She wants Tony to realize that what he has done indirectly. His one wrong suggestion to Adrian that he should consult Mrs. Sara Ford made Veronica and Adrian’s life a disaster. Veronica’s anger and her silence in the driving scene present her maturity.

 
  We can observe her hatred and anger when she says,

“At least I had my seat belt on. This time Veronica’s parking technique consisted of getting both nearside wheels up on the kerb at a speed of about twenty miles an hour, then stamping on the brakes.
 “Out,” she said, staring ahead.
     I nodded, undid my seat belt, and slowly got out of the car. I held the door open longer than necessary, just to annoy her one last time, and said,
“You’ll ruin your tyres if you go on like that.”
The door was wrenched from my hand as she drove off.”
   
        Veronica comes out as a noble character from the girlfriend who betrayed his boyfriend. She can be seen as a mother who sacrificed her jealousy, anger, and pain just to take care of the mentally and physically deformed child. She has not married again and sacrificed her life for her love and the child. Veronica was fighter. She fought with worse circumstances of life and Tony was a man of destiny. As per him,

  “What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realised? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self rebukes never really inflicted pain?”

 Adrian Finn/ Veronica Ford
Veronica broke up with Tony and started relationship with Adrian. Veronica has emerged has powerful character than Adrian. When Tony has narrated the story first, we come to know about the very powerful character of Adrian as a philosopher. He was an intelligent student with high thinking capacity. He was favourite among all teachers. We can find that by Tony’s narrative,

“Adrian Finn (22) had killed himself “while the balance of his mind was disturbed.”I remember how angry that conventional phrase made me: I would have sworn on oath that Adrian’s was the one mind which would never lose its balance.”
   
        The reality is quite different because Adrian was not able to manage the pain which life has given him. He was a father of his girlfriend’s mother’s child, in short he had an affair with his girlfriend’s mother, and that relationship has resulted in formation of a baby. The baby was mentally and physically deformed and Adrian was not able to handle this reality and suffering of a baby.  He has committed suicide with a perfect planning.
   
      Veronica has not lost the hope. She has suffered a lot and at the end emerged as the great woman and a mother. She has not quit but she took responsibility of her brother Adrian junior.

 Sara Ford/ Adrian Finn:
 
       Sara Ford was Veronica’s mother and also a bit jealous with her. Mrs. Ford’s character seems villainous because she is jealous with Veronica and warns her boyfriends to take relationship with her. At the end, she seems more courageous because she has given a birth to Adrian’s child and she sent “Blood money” to Tony as a part of guilt.



 Robson's Suicide:

Robson was a student in the same school where Adrian and Tony was studying. He has committed suicide because of her girlfriend’s pregnancy. At that time Adrian, Tony and their friends were blaming Robson for his act and considered him irresponsible. There is not any description about Robson’s girlfriend. However, we can guess that she must have survived. Robson had not the courage to take responsibility or to give a commitment of marriage. After few years, Adrian has also done the same. In the novel, these two males presented as escapists. Both have escaped from the situation (life) when they and their loved one were in trouble.

 Adrian's Suicide:-
Adrian was Tony’s friend, he’s fascinated by literature and philosophy his preferred authors are Camus and Nietzsche but unlike the others.

 Conclusion:-
‘The Sense of an Ending' Novel by Julian Barnes. Male character and Female Character comparison and Robson and Adrian Suicide is my topic.  In this novel in end not any end.

‘A Grain of Wheat’ How Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Shifted from Class Analysis to a Neo- Colonialist Perspective.

 Topic:- ‘A Grain of Wheat’  How Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Shifted from Class Analysis to a Neo- Colonialist Perspective.

 Name:- Kailas Gohil
 Roll No:- 13
 Semester:-4










 Introduction:-
 About Ngugi Wa Thiong’o:

'A Grain of Wheat’ is a Novel written by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.  He was born in 5 January 1938. He was writes primarily in Gikuyu. He was Kenyan novelist. He was writes includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children' s literature. His first published as part of the influential Heinemann Africa Writers series.
His Awards…
1. Lotus prize for Literature  (1973)
2. Nonino International Prize for Literature (2001)
3. Notional Book Critics Circle Award (2012)
4. Park Kyong ni  Prize (2016)
5. Grand Prix Des Mecenes of the GPLA (2018)
6. For his Entire bode of Work (2018)

His Novels…
1. Weep Not, child, (1964)
2. The River Between (1965)
3. A Grain of Wheat’ (1967- 1992)
4. Petals of Blood (1977)
5. Devil in the cross, (1989)
6. Wangui Was Goro (1989)
7. Wizard of the  Crow, (2004).

 Thiong’o shifted from class analysis to a Neo- Colonialist Perspective:
  During the Mau Mau rebellion Ngũgĩ was being educated in the rather secure setting of Alliance High School, an élite boarding institution. His brother joined the uprising between 1954 and 1956, and his parents and other relatives were detained by the British. A stepbrother of Ngũgĩ, of the same name and condition as the deaf and dumb Gitogo who is shot dead by government forces in A Grain of Wheat, died in almost identical circumstances. The village of Kamiriithu was forcibly moved to a new site. Cook, David and Okenimkpe, Michael, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: an exploration of his writings.
For the other great epic rewriting African history, see Beti, Mongo, Remember Ruben (Paris, 1974), translated by Gerald Moore and published in English.
 Colonialism:-
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o alludes to actual events during the early post-colonial period, such as the assassination of Pio Gama Pinto in 1965 and of Tom Mboya in 1969s. The Gikuyu élite drew on the traditions of Mau Mau to organise oath-taking ceremonies so as to mobilise ethnic support during 1969–70. And the lawyer had his real life counterpart in Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, who was assassinated in 1975.
Ngũgĩ uses the very words that constitute the title of Achebe's, Chinua famous novel A Man of the People (London, 1966), denouncing the betrayal of Nigeria's independence by corrupt politicians.Top of FormBottom of Form.
ThisThis Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat, appears early in chapter one of the novel. As readers begin the novel, they are made immediately aware that something is not right. The main character, Mugo, lies chained to a bed. He stares straight up as water droplets form above him. These water drops will drip continuously upon him. Many readers may be familiar with this image: water torture. This quote speaks to the horror associated with torture. Yet, the image presented does not seem particularly foreboding. The words chosen to describe the water droplet possess a positive and peaceful image. The water drop is described as both "clear" and "delicate." It is not until the droplet begins to fatten under its weight and become soiled by the roots and dirt as it hangs mercilessly above Mugo that the clear drop transforms into something different. Luckily for Mugo, this eminent torture has only been a dream.
‘As long as he did not know the truth, he could interpret the story in the only way that gave him hope.’
ThisThis quote speaks to the fluidity of reality. While some may try to argue that one reality exists and everyone experiences the same reality, this is far from the truth. Not knowing something, at times, actually may offer a person some solace. By not knowing, one is able to decipher the events as individualistic to himself or herself. In doing this, the optimistic person is able to mold what is happening into something which has the possibility of bringing hope. If one were to know the truth of the circumstances and could find no hope, he or she could be lost and give up. This quote speaks directly to the idea of the importance of the individual. It.

For the reactions of the Kenyan Government that culminated in 1982 in the destruction of the Kamiriithu theatre, see Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa, Decolonising the Mind: the politics of language in African literature.
Ngũgĩ reports in Decolonizing the Mind, p. 83, that Caitaani Mũtharaba-inĩ was read aloud in families, among workers, on buses, in taxis, and in public bars.
 Class Analysis:-
A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story. The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century, Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605. The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."
 Conclusion:-
In this novel ‘A Grain of Wheat’ Ngugi Wa Thiong’o talk about Kenyan Freedom for Kenyan people.

 Work cited:
1. Gugler, J. (1994). How Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Shifted from Class Analysis to a Neo-Colonialist Perspective. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 32(2), 329-339.
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