Page-3_Page-3.qxd 1/27/2017 12:33 PM Page 1 03 UDAIPUR THURSDAY,JANUARY 26, 2017 Entertainment, Tech & Business MHRD's Global Initiative Of Academic The Republic at 67 After celebrating 70 years of Independence on August 15, 2016, Networks Held In MLSU Udaipur the nation has on its hand yet another landmark event. The Yeh Pratap ki karmbhumi ke Classrooms" and triggered a discussions as the movie had Indian Republic completes 67 years today. In a way, it is a time mathe ka chandan very vibrant debate among the a multilayered, nuanced and for rejoicing that democracy has struck deep roots in the Indian Meera ki nishkam bhakti ka he participants who shared the radical narrative of the indian psyche. This is not a small achievement if we look at the dic - atoot bandhan… problems of their respective polity, religion, society and cul - tatorial tendencies in the neighbourhood. This country shines Sheel gyan vigyan karm regions while teaching con - ture. The fourth day had the by contrast in ensuring to the people freedom, equality, justice, sangam ko koti naman! temporary literary texts to stu - entire audience transported fair play and liberal values. True, there are wide gaps between With these words of the dents who have not fully over - into the world of Bollywood what the Constitution guarantees and what we see in practice. Mohanlal Sukhadia University's come the barriers of language. proper, with the lecture on This is natural in a complex developing country like ours which Kulgeet began the weeklong, The first lecture by Prof. Mishra "When the Gothic goes has of late been seeing a revolution of rising expectations. 11-17 Jan. 2017, intensive defined the contexts and Transnational: the curious case It is difficult to say who has failed whom. Is it the Constitution intellectual brainstorming about approaches relating to of the Bollywood Gothic Noir" which has failed the people? Or, the persons at the helm? A "Postcolonial, Transnational "Postcolonial, Cosmopolitan followed by the film number of distortions have crept into the system because of and World Literatures: Diaspora." show,Madhumati. Prof. Mishra non-governance or poor performance by the ruling elite. Contexts and Approaches", The second day, the third lec - placed the indian gothic noir Politicians indulge in gimmicks and have tried to exploit the MHRD'S Global Initiative of ture on "Archival Modernism: of the fifty's into the hollywood vast multitude of illiterate Academic Networks(GIAN) Salman Rushdie's novel The genre, gothic and horror. He Indians to promote their vote Course in the Dept of English, Ground Beneath Her Feet" also commented on the inser - Planetary Modernism, reliving a kind of college life and also for the writer and text, banks. The biggest curse of Mohanlal Sukhadia University, traced the threads of this magic tion of the reincarnation prin - Morretti's Distant Reading were while discovering a few things especially in literature, in order Editorial this nation has been the vote Udaipur(Rajasthan), NAAC realist novel in the archives of ciple of the indian religious tra - the important ones.The sixth about each other's cultures to obtain the best results out bank politics freely indulged Accredited A Grade University. the past, the myths and leg - dition in the sixty's, in the films day saw the teachers turned and many of them experienc - of such intellectual/academic in by our self-seeking small-time leaders. This goes against Prof. Vijay Mishra, a scholar ends of the east as well as the like Talaash. He called it the students work shopping on ing the 4 to 6 degree cold for endeavors. And all the partic - the very spirit of the Constitution of international repute in the west. Prof. Mishra had done a Indian compromise. The lec - the theories and texts dis - the first time! The journey of ipants agreed that Prof. Mishra We have often stressed the need for introspection and stock - area, traveled across oceans close analysis of Rushdie's tures on the fifth day on "When cussed during the course. The the bunch of fifty that began had been an exemplary figure taking. However, the moot point is: do our leaders have any from Murdoch University, Perth papers deposited in the Robert Comparative Literature course coordinator Prof. on the 11th came to an end practicing it for the whole week. desire for this serious exercise by breaking away from their to the lakecity Udaipur in the Woodruff Library(Manuscript, becomes World Literature" Pradeep Trikha had the par - with a concluding lecture in The report for the course was crude politics of power and sharing the spoils system? A new desert region of Rajasthan, in Archives and rare books) of dwelt on the interconnection ticipants go through the exam which the energetic and enthu - presented by a participating set of rulers has come in place of the old lot. The country no order to disseminate a num - Emory University, USA. The between the comparative and fever, the butterflies in the siastic Prof. Mishra, notwith - member, Dr. Minakshi Jain of longer suffers one- party rule of the Congress. It has been ber of discourses on theory, fic - fourth session "Edward Said: the world literature categories. stomach that most of them had standing his age and seemingly the Dept of English that had replaced by BJP lead NDA tion and films in the course Humanism and World Prof. mishra traced the pres - long forgotten, when he frail physique, managed to organized the course. A cou - we have to ensure both transparency and accountability at all area. The presence of forty Literature" meticulously locat - ence of attributes of world lit - declared that the assessment dish in another important topic ple of outstation participants too levels of governance. Indeed, the time has come to revive the eight participants- Professors, ed liberal humanist thought in erature in the earliest texts of test was mandatory for every - Postcolonial Annotations, spoke about the way they had nation's hopes and this is possible only if we come out of the Associate Professors, the tradition of eastern religious all literatures. he pointed out one, besides the presenta - besides the concluding been looked after by the coor - old rut and think on new bold lines to make India a super power Assistant Professors, and and cultural texts. Prof. Mishra that India being multilingual, it tions that were made by all of remarks. While dwelling upon dinator, Prof. Pradeep Trikha. which it richly deserves to be. Research Scholars- from uni - debunked the idea that liber - always had a strong presence them. The organisers had man - the need of annotations in the Some of them expressed their Enough is enough. It is time we stopped dividing the country versities across the country: al humanism was born in the of features of world literature aged to pack in a local sight Postcolonial texts for the sake overwhelming sense of grati - in terms of community, caste, class and colour. F67 years of Vigyan University, Guntur; european west which some in its provincial language liter - seeing tour and a cultural eve of common reader as well as tude at the warmth and care, the Republic should set the Indian mind and thinking in tune B.H.U.Banaras; Behrampur claimed the west had aban - ary texts. though there might on the fifth and the sixth days, for the metropolitan global besides academic gain, that with the revolution in cash less technology. What should we University, Odissa; JNU, New doned after the holocaust of have been an absence of one much to the respite of the 'stu - readership he also pointed out they received during the aim at is the creation of a better informed society. Delhi; Mumbai University; World War ll. He emphatical - national literature as it exists dents' who were finding it the numerological concerns in course.Prof. Trikha, in his vote Jai Hind Kolkatta University; Delhi ly established a strong human - in monolingual western extremely difficult to sit on the Midnight's Children and spe - of thanks, reciprocated by University; JNV University, ist tradition in the cultural texts nations. the emergence of the other side of table, many of cific cultural belief relating to expressing his sense of grat - Unveiled The Trophy Of 3rd Bright Jodhpur; University of of the muslim and hindu texts. category of world literature whom have been 'teachers' for the mystery behind numbers itude at the regularity, and dis - Rajasthan, Jaipur, resulted in The next lecture "Comparative today, defines it not as a set more than a decade now. One such as 420, 1001, 786 etc. cipline shown by the partici - vibrant discussions and Modernisms: Salman of masterpieces or as a com - of the participants Prof. Neeraj The following Valedictory ses - pants, besides their enthusi - debates during each session. Rushdie's The Enchantress of monly agreed canon but as an Agnihotri, by virtue of his long sion had Prof. Sanjay Lodha, astic participation in the dis - The inaugural session was Florence" continued the dis - approach, the way we define years of experience, was even local coordinator GIAN, as the cussions following each lecture chaired by the Hon'ble Vice course on parallels between another category like Post requested to deliver the vale - chief guest who dwelt upon the and over every tea and lunch. Chancellor Prof. J. P. Sharma. the western and eastern colonial literature. Prof. Mishra dictory address which he glad - benefits of academic exchange The participants and organis - The Chief Guest Prof. Sudha thoughts in the context of opened up a number of new ly consented to. Thus, the programme like this for the fac - ers had built a bond defined Rai, Head of the Dept of modernity.