THE BUNT LINE -- P.I.C.T.U.R.E.
Editor Kshitiz Kant, what is stored in the lines of poem, composed by Dr. Kalyani Dixit, is trying to feel at and how difficult in the current environment of our student's experience is also trying to find out.
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| Dr Kalyani Dixit |
Dr Kalyani Dixit, 35, is an Assistant Professor in English literature in Dayanand Anglo Vedic Degree College Lucknow; educated Brahmin back-ground; she took her degree of graduation, post graduation and Ph.D. from University of Lucknow.
Ms. Dixit is daughter of Mr N.K. Dixit
(father), Smt Sushila Dixit (mother) and grand daughter of renowned freedom
fighter, Late-Chandrodaya Dixit who was the editor of the post-independent
Hindi daily, Swatantra Bharat and also served The Pioneer for many years. Whilst
being an assistant professor Ms Dixit has written several research papers and
book reviews for various national and international journals including poems in
Hindi and English. She is also a regular contributor, as the editor, to various
national and international journals in English Literature. Dr Kalyani Dixit is
a bilingual poet (English and Hindi), critic, reviewer, editor, and novelist.
An International Refereed Research Journal. She is member of
International Educational Research Centre. She strongly believes in the voice
of inner recesses of her heart. She thanks GOD for bestowing
on her such tender poetic sensibilities. Her poems are effortless and coherent
manifestations of various shades of human emotions and psyche. They echo the
innocent experiences of angelic hearts. She welcomes all pricey human emotions
as lovable residents of her heart.
Q1 K.Kant: English is an
international language; the books, written by foreign writers, can only be
understand by those students who have the ability of reading, writing and
comprehending the contents inside it. Which type of difficulties you faced by
new comers?
Dr Kalyani: During the Age of Geoffrey
Chaucer or in Shakespearean era, the words used by the poets were different
since they were writing in obsolete English. Today we use the language in its
reformed shape. Our students face difficulties in reading and writing old
English. In practice the new comers from throughout Hindi medium schools, are
comparatively more sincere, yet hard to overcome the problems; while English mediums
are not that much sincere. This is a bitter fact that Hindi medium students need
enough courage to take English as optional subject. Since they cannot think
directly in the second language. They first form sentences into their mother
tongue and then try to translate it into English. Their inability to think and
speak directly into the second language keeps them a pace back.
Q2 K.Kant: Students in
primary classes kids of Hindi medium schools are trained and taught and after
crossing the senior secondary they take admission in graduation. What did you
see in their precise paraphrasing and explanation writings?
Dr Kalyani: In the primary level, the students are taught to copy their work as
home work. They only learn the lessons
by heart. They actually don’t know what they are doing? From class 4th to 8th,
the students are not well taught about English. They face these situations up
to 12th. They, being unable to take up their mistakes, cannot rectify their
speech.
Q3. K.Kant: Can you suggest any type of teaching
improvement desirous in English language for Hindi medium students(kids) at the
primary levels?
Dr Kalyani: Government has started many
projects in order to improve the future of students, but I must say that
government is not serious. Neither the primary schools are funded properly nor are
these schools able to procure the better equipment assets. The funds provided
to such institutions are not even consumed properly. This is the basic reason
the kindergartens have been unable to produce better learners. The sons and
daughters of our politicians study in standard ranking schools, colleges and
universities. They avoid such government funded or aided institutions when it
comes to the education of their own kids.
English is the second language in India. It
is not the foreign language. The standard books by foreign writers are always
written in English language. The materials and the contents inside it support
the students during their academic years. So the students whether they are from
the art faculty or from the science they have to learn English properly in
order to prosper their knowledge.
4. K.Kant:There is some
limitations to meet with you. You have told in conversation that your mother
was your impetus in the career. Nowadays social media is in fashion. Your poem
explains about “the place where the feelings…” which shows the spontaneous
vents as on line “Strange feelings captured my countenance when I gave a
blank look and curbed the erupting volcano within my psyche in order to pretend
that he was just a stranger for me.”
There is a little confusion for your explicitness.
A) Your career
is mother-backed…Can you tell any event of reminicsence?
Dr Kalyani: I was 11th standard student when I started worshipping lord Shiva. I
devoted all my prayers and offerings to lord Shiva and neglected all the other
Gods and Goddess. One day my mother suggested me to worship Lord Ganesha. My
answer for it was, “I believe only in lord Shiva… I’m not going to worship any
other deity”. My mother told me that
your Lord Shiva himself offered highest rank to Lord Ganesha and called him numero
uno in the pantheon of Gods. Then I realized my mistake and started worshiping
lord Ganesha with equal devotion.
B) Nowadays social media is in fashion…. how it is useful? And where it’s an emergence of failure?
Dr Kalyani: For
those who are not aware of the correct use of social media it is really a bane.
For me it's a boon because while using it I came into contact with many eminent
writers, poets and critics of the contemporary times.
C)“When I gave a blank look” Who is before?
Dr Kalyani: Lord Ganesha is in the idol, as my
brother.
The
blank look is given to loving lord in order to express feigned anger.
Q5 Is your introversion to gain outer
knowledge? Your extroverted attitude is the suffering restriction by your
guardian?
Dr Kalyani: Yes, my parents are very strict. I belong
to a highly disciplined kind of family. Yes to some extent you can call me
introvert because I cannot share my innermost feelings openly with others. Most
of the time, I compose poems in order to relieve myself or to get mental
satisfaction. Otherwise by nature I am an extrovert person.
Q6. K.Kant: who is your favourite poet, or the poetess in
Hindi has you heard them ever... their
writings which impressed you very much? Name??.
Dr Kalyani: List of
my favourite Hindi poets is very long. I like patriotic poems by Dinkar Ji and
Nirala Ji. I love sad poems of Mahadevi Verma ji. I also like nature poetary of
Sumitra Nandan Pant Ji. My favourite
lines are:
เคจเคฐ เคीเคตเคจ เคे เคธ्เคตाเคฐ्เคฅ เคธเคเคฒ,
เคฌเคฒि
เคนो เคคेเคฐे เคเคฐเคฃों เคชเคฐ เคฎाँ!
เคฎेเคฐे
เคถ्เคฐเคฎ เคธे เคธंเคिเคค เคธเคฌ เคซเคฒ!!
เคीเคตเคจ
เคे เคฐเคฅ เคชเคฐ เคเคข़เคเคฐ,
เคธเคฆा
เคฎृเคค्เคฏु เคชเคฅ เคชเคฐ เคฌเคข़เคเคฐ!
เคฎเคนाเคाเคฒ
เคे เคเคค-เคคเคฐ-เคถเคฐ,
เคธเคน เคธเคूँ เคฎुเคे เคคू เคเคฐ เคฆृเคข़เคคเคฐ!
เคाเคे
เคฎेเคฐे เคเคฐ เคฎे เคคेเคฐी
เคฎूเคฐ्เคคि
เค
เคถ्เคฐु เคเคฒ เคงौเคค เคตिเคจเคจं!
เคฆृเค
เคเคฒ เคธे เคชा เคฌเคฒ
เคฌเคฒिเคเคฐ
เคฆूँ,
เคเคจเคจि เคเคจ्เคฎเคญूเคฎि เคธंเคिเคค เคซเคฒ!
Q7 K.Kant: Mostly Hindi
medium talented boys and girls student are selected in prestigious
institutions. If they have the rural back ground, they face linguistic
problems. Many cases of suicide in these institutions
have been reported. What is the basic reason behind it? Which
type of problems you faced during your academic education?
Dr Kalyani: Students
of Hindi medium are not always weak. They are actually very serious about their
studies. If they are selected, they have all the capabilities to maintain their
candidature. Such cases of suicide attempts reflect the weak will or
inappropriate adjustment skills on the part of the students. We should not
associate it with their Hindi medium education. The reality is that most of the
time we underestimate such students. You
see many Hindi writers have done their PG in English -- one of them is Ram
Vilas Sharma, who joined as a lecturer
in LU and then moved to Balwant Rajput College, Agra as HOD of the Department
of English. Sharma ji produced wonderful corpus in Hindi; and some of the
writers have done their PG in Hindi but they
write in English.
I was not interested in English
literature; it was my mother's dream. I wanted to become an MBBS doctor, but my
Father didn't support me; I, then, decided to go Navy, but my age was below the
required one. Then I decided to become a Clinical Psychologist. But my father
said no to LU; he said, 'if you want to study psychology in PG then choose any
girls college.” But no girl’s college had psychology in PG, therefore, I was
suggested to study English in a girls PG college. My mother said to me in a
tone of persuasion that, “my eldest daughter is teaching Hindi, now you should
study English.” My father's never supported the higher education of a girl
child.
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| Dr KALYANI DIXIT WITH EDITOR KSHITIZ KANT AT STAFF ROOM DAV PG COLLEGE LKO |
Q8. K.Kant: which poet, or the poetess in English has inspired
you very much? Name? please narrate the stanza or the verses.
Dr Kalyani: I liked S T COLERIDGE since my childhood.
The Rime of
Ancient Mariner was my favourite poem.
Her lips were
red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Nightmare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Nightmare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
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He prayeth well, who loveth well
both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
all things both great and small;
for the dear god who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."
-- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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