Prabha Shares

The very title “Joothan” meaning ‘left-out food’ itself made me pause for a second and sit back with the thought of giving it a try. The subtitle goes like ‘A Dalit’s life’ is an autobiography of Omprakash Valmiki translated in English by Arun Prabha Mukherjee, describing the worst clutches of casteism. There is a saying that “People can’t understand certain things until they undergo them’ and I found it true on reading this book. We have heard about the worst forms of casteism but after heavy manual labor just receiving the ‘left-out food’ as the payment is really sickening. Source: Stree-Samya books The most interesting part of the book is the ‘Pitaji’, that is the father of the author who showed a denial against the system of caste. He believed that literacy and a high professional position can only help a person to come out of the iron fist of casteism. This very thought is the seed behind the growth of the author as a person not surrendering himself to the ugly frame of casteism.

The most striking question posed on the people who are fallen in love is “ How far can you go for your love? “ And at times we may get sarcastic replies like heroes going for their ladylove to America or Allepy can only be seen in Gautam Vasudev Menon’s movies, taking the literal meaning of the question. On that note, a true story has happened but here to our wonder, a ladylove has flapped her wings sans borders, language, culture for the love she had grown for her man. The name of the movie is “The White Masai”, one of the most impactful movies I have seen and would like to share my experiences. Since I use to stay alone at night times I do watch TV and will fall asleep as the TV is on. At times I used to wake up around 3.30 A.M or 4 A.M and will not feel sleepy. So I used to watch TV and will fall asleep again. One such day, I suddenly woke up around 3.45 A.M and was not feeling sleepy at all. I was switching between the channels and that is when suddenly I saw a scene in a movie whe

When we hear the word ‘Dictator’ a very few names will jump into our minds and one important name among those is Adolf Hitler. His autobiography ‘Mein Kampf’ is one of the best sellers which came in two volumes, the first one in 1925 when he was imprisoned and the second one was published in 1927. Originally written in German but was translated into almost 11 languages.  The first volume is titled ‘A reckoning’ where he talks about his childhood and the initial period of his ideological development. The second volume is titled ‘National social movement’ talks about how his ideals got shaped into a party. If one goes through these volumes will find out that Hitler focusses only on a few aspects and he keeps on repeating them in different ways. Maybe it is due to his lack of clarity in expressing his thoughts in a contained way or maybe intentionally done to push his ideas into the minds of the reader, which is known only to Hitler. Ultra Nationalism The first and foremost thing he focus