Personal Goals
1.
Prioritizing the
time management
2.
Not to miss any family
gathering
3.
Not to commit to
everything, and start to say no.
Creative Goals
1.
To take up teaching
online.
2.
Improving the
painting skills.
3. Joining the sports club.
As a final campaign of the year 2024,
Blog Chatter announced #Blogchatterwrapparty, with five constituent prompts, of
which the following is the one:
“Give
a shoutout to a fellow creator, sharing what you like about them”
I will write this blog post about fellow blogger
Pandian Ramaiah.
He writes about mythological stories, fiction, and
translations in his blog.
Particularly I liked his bilingual scholarliness.
(English & Tamil)
Here is the link https://dwaraka.wordpress.com/
He posts his writings on Blog chatter and earns many stickers by participating in various campaigns.
“Shortness is sweetness” can be felt by reading
his posts.
His blog is an interesting one and kindles me to
read.
His writing style is very lucid and catchy.
Though I have not regularly read his posts, I found
so much valuable information packed within the compass of his posts' limited
length.
(This blog post is a part of
#Blogchatterwrapparty. For more details here : https://www.theblogchatter.com/campaign-registrations/are-you-ready-to-wrap-up-2024-with-a-bang)
Recollecting six major milestones, I summarise the year in six words:
1. Achievement
Something that I have
done successfully, especially through hard work. It gave me a sense of achievement.
D.Litt stands for Doctor of Literature, received
the Degree in June 2024.
2. Celebration
A
celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something
pleasant has happened. Participating in someone's
birthday, marriage, anniversary, etc., in this way, I am highly glad to have participated
in the same.
3. Travel
Travel is the main
part of my life. The advantages of travelling include stress and anxiety
reduction to alleviating tension. It improved my mental well-being and creativity
and provided a sense of satisfaction. Apart from other travels, visited my
native village twice this year.
4. Asset
Jewellery is the essential thing. Gold enhances life span, wealth, body complexion,
intellect, and memory, and eradicates the evil spirit. Brought
gold jewellery to compliment & wear as a symbol of my achievement.
5. Gaining health through
exercise:
Health
is wealth. Prioritizing it, I got back to my routines. Regaining my health with
rigorous exercise to stay in shape.
6. Fair enough with my Passion for writing and
reading
Sparing
time to Read books & write on specific themes and compose poems in Sanskrit.
A syllable is as much of
a word as can be pronounced at once, that is, a vowel with or without one or
more consonants.
A syllable is लघु ‘Short’ or गुरु ‘long’
according as its vowel is ‘short’ or ‘long’.
The vowels अ, इ, उ, ऋ & ऌ are short;
आ, ई, ऊ, ॠ, ए, ऐ, ओ & औ are
long. But a short vowel becomes long in
prosody when it is followed by an Anusvara, Visarga and by a conjunct
consonant; as the vowel अ in गंध or गः. (The consonants प्र & ह्र as also ब्र & क्र are said to be exceptions, before
which the vowel may be short by a sort of poetical license. So also the last syllable of a pada is either
long or short, according to the exigence of the metre, whatever be its natural length.
सानुस्वारश्च
दीर्घश्च विसर्गी च गुरुर्भवेत् । वर्णःसंयोगपूर्वश्च तथा पादान्तगोऽपि वा ॥
Author: Smriti Kumar Sinha
Original
Version: Bishnupriya Manipuri
Translator:
Ramlal Sinha
Editor: Zinnia Sengupta
Publisher:
Niyogi Books
Genre: Literary and Contemporary Fiction
Book buy link ---- @Amazon
Smriti Kumar Sinha the renowned
Bishnupriya Manipuri story writer for his first “Seducing the Rain God” which attracted readers around the world, influenced the Indian language Bishnupriya Manipuri by narrating the landscapes of the Northeast.
He is a reputed educationist and
currently Vice-Chancellor of Pragjyotishpur University. His short stories were published in “Indian
Literature” the famous literary journal of Sahitya Akademi, India. Now, he is a major activist for the
revitalisation and development of minor and endangered languages of Northeast
India over the past four decades.
The Translator Ramlal Sinha is a veteran
journalist from Northeast and Executive Editor of The Sentinel, Assam. Being the Sub-Editor with The Newsfront,
Guwahati, like Smriti Kumar Sinha, is devoted to making literature in
endangered languages of the Northeast accessible to pan-Indian and
international audiences.
The Selected story is titled “Freedom
Lost in Rights”, written by Smriti Kumar Sinha one of the most reputed
short-story writers of his generation. The collection of these eleven
Stories is best known for its immensely inter-woven characters, habits
and customs, way of life, day-to-day adventures and their language in Manipur.
This nearly 200-page collection has been rendered in English by Bishnupriya Manipuri in a lucid way. Though
translating any work from one language into another is an arduous task,
especially so if the work of translation consists of spoken words, Ramlal Sinha
travelled the entire region of NorthEast, especially Manipur, for the live
narration of the characters, language, region, and their lifestyle.
It’s a tedious effort that requires the translator's abundance
of dedication and unremitting labour of the translator over his assigned task
without failing to provide the quintessence of North-Eastern diction.
The
first story Grass or Land? Highlights the childhood friendship - never care
about caste or creed; poor or rich.
The phrase from Page 17, “Undernourished,
he is a bag of bones” echoes the Tamil Saying “Kaayame idhu poyyadaa, verum
Kaatradaittha paiyyadaa”.
The phrase from page 29 “The
Shampens are very happy because they are very close to Mother Nature. For us, peace is scarce because we have
distanced ourselves from nature” insists the reader to save the earth without
ruining nature.
The phrase from page 125 “Anger
is one letter short of danger” throws light on controlling the anger which
provokes emotional downfalls.
The
eternal love between Akhanda and Prajna, the adventurous journey of the author
along with his team to visit the Nicobar Islands to conduct the polling, and the reality
of human life and soul through Nandeswar are well narrated.
The cover page, well designed was a theoretical
representation through the mixture of old and modern art well designed by Maithili
Doshi which makes the readers visualize the theme of the story - Freedom Lost
in Rights the second one of this collection.
While
reading this collection of stories, the readers can experience the north east region as if
they were travelling and interacting with the characters in the Northeast region.
There
are many rituals, ceremonies, and celebrations described through the words like
Navami, Pitupaksha, Vishu in Vaishak, Rathayatra in Ashadh, Hariuththan, Goshthalila,
Rasalila etc Navami with related things like Aarti, Nukun the sacred thread, Firal,
Champa, Kumkum, Kathidal, Leichandan, Prasad, Tika, etc.
The ornaments like Patuki, Dhungri,
Bulaki, Naugedi and pote;
the games and dance like Betgutta,
Pung Chalan, Bhangi;
the edibles like Dalmool, Kachi gani oil, Bhaat
Khawaani, Senakapak;
the clothes like Inafi, Nayanamuna, Kantha,
Irufi, Talafuti, Chaubandi cholo, Kirtanar khutteri, Angavastra, and Chandua are
interesting things that kindle the readers to visualize the entire scenario.
The book reveals the hidden
treasure of the northeast of India and readers worldwide will get a glimpse of the people's lives in the region through literature.
This is a book with high literary merits and due importance to language, culture, and writing style is maintained throughout.
(This book review is the part of Blogchatter's Book Review Program)
PROSODY means the study of poetry. In Sanskrit it is called Chandas or Vruttam.
The earliest and most important work in Sanskrit Prosdy is the Pingala's Chandas-Sastram, attributed to the sage Pingala, which consists of Sutras or aphorisms distributed over eight books.
The AgniPurana also gives a complete system of prosody founded apparently on Pingala's. Several other original treatises have likewise been composed by various authors, such as the Sruthabodha, VrittaRatnakara, VrutthaKaumudi, ChandoManjari etc.,
Sanskrit composition may be in the form of Gadya or Prose, Padya or Poetry expressed in the form of stanzas.
A stanza or Padya is a combination of four Padaas or quarters (line, foot, stanza) which are regulated by either the number of Aksharam or Varna or syllable, or by the number of Maathraas or syllabic instants.
A Padya is a Vruttha or Jathi.
A Vruttha is a stanza the metre of which is regualted by the number and position of syllables in each Paada or quarter. (VarnaVruttham)
A Jaathi is a stanza the metre of which is regulated by the number of syllabic instants in each quarter. (MaathraaVruttham)
Vrutthas are divided into three classes:1. SamaVruttham in which all the four Paadaas or quarters composing the stanza are all similar; 2. ArdhaSamaVruttham in which the alternate quarters are similar and 3. VishamaVruttham in which the quarters are all dissimilar.
The Subhashita neevi of Vedanta Desika is a short Kavya known in Sanskrit as Khanda kavya. It is a book on morals and wisdom which go by the name of subhasita. A word about Neevi in the title Subhashita neevi means treasure, a knot particularly of feminine garment among other meanings.
It belongs to a species of poetic composition called Padyam
in which the poet goes on writing verses with varied ideas as and when they
strike him.
This work Subhashita Neevi is a short poem in a gross of
verses divided into twelve chapters called Paddhatis with twelve slokas in each
paddhati. It is unique in several
aspects. This Kavyam is neither devotional
nor philosophical, unlike the other works of the author.
It is a didactic in its import and is intended to serve as
a corrective to mankind by exposing its foibles and frailties and instructing
it in the valuable norms of right social behaviour.
In the very first Chapter called “Anipuna Paddhati means
Unskilled Path” the author well narrated and shew his scholarliness or
erudition that
Prathamasujanaaya pumse
mahyamapi prathamadhurjanaaya namah l
Sarvam hathah krutham yau
sakrudhupakaaraapakaaraabhyaam ll I - 1
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