tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007496876097293916.post5803325606643788845..comments2010-07-19T13:59:45.082-07:00Comments on गल्पातल: Ashutosh Bhardwajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713847981317837752noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007496876097293916.post-66795109836015993132010-02-26T01:50:05.568-08:002010-02-26T01:50:05.568-08:00Now, we are warm :-)
Perhaps its not a release fr...Now, we are warm :-)<br /><br />Perhaps its not a release from 'ideology' its more a release from his alter ego. As we see in the course of the story, the underdog does radical changes in his life (=sincerely tries to 'declass'himself, even decides to avoid the extravagance of art - jahan bahut kala hoti hai, parivartan nahin hota -). I had in mind that in future he'd be more genuinely radical but since I didn't indulge in future in this one (as I do in other stories)I also can only guess. You are right : the text is ambivalent about it(since the narrative is open to the impression that for Mohit Agrawal, Dheeraj Benjamin=Ideology) and one could also read it as a release, though possibly false and deceptive, from ideology.girirajkhttp://www.pratilipi.innoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007496876097293916.post-89961853421070694282010-02-23T08:49:43.993-08:002010-02-23T08:49:43.993-08:00Hi,
Neither I intended it to be a tribute to some...Hi, <br />Neither I intended it to be a tribute to something 'dead forever'. Just like we have transient lives, there can be ephemeral deaths also. <br /><br />Over the entire text, the narrator is grappling with the ideology, and the penultimate para of this text (on this blog) also suggests that the 'release (from the ideology) is possibly false and deceptive'. But still it was a release as the narrator embarked on a new journey, possibly away from his existing ideology. <br />The title, after all, is very clear--- Murder of Marx. So though Marx and Marxism need not have been murdered and consequently dead forever, there can well be a tribute to someone that has been 'murdered' in this story. <br />More, Since this tribute essentially emerges from a piece of art, comes from a vulnerable narrator, its Fukuyamasque reading should be avoided.Ashutosh Bhardwajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16713847981317837752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007496876097293916.post-57080082064219997652010-02-22T23:14:03.894-08:002010-02-22T23:14:03.894-08:00Hey, since by not commenting friends have given us...Hey, since by not commenting friends have given us the opportunity of a direct exchange, lets grab it with both hands.<br /><br />1. I do not see it as a TRIBUTE to Marxism/Ideology in the sense we pay tributes to dead things because I simply don't accept this propaganda that ideology is dead or 'we live in a post-ideological world' etc. On the contrary its everywhere. Its there in shopping malls, in Hollywood blockbusters, in Shahrukh Khan sizzlers,in contraceptive promotionals,in love-poems,in IPL tamasha, in RTI campaign, jal mein, thal mein, tan mein, man mein, its everywhere. <br />2.<br />The story, perhaps, should be read as a tribute to Pankaj Bisht's Lekin Darwaja.girirajhttp://www.pratilipi.innoreply@blogger.com