Book Released
A Postmodernist Critique of the Select Works of Amitav Ghosh
By
Dr J Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Skills
Marwadi University
The book entitled A
Postmodernist Critique of the Select Works of Amitav Ghosh by Dr J
Vijayalakshmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Skills, Marwadi
University was released by the renowned writer Ms. Bharathi Pradhan at
Ahemdabad International Literature Festival on 24th December,2017.
After unveiling the book, Ms. Pradhan congratulated the author for her hard
work. Dr. Vijayalakshmi was given a session of 15 minutes to present her view
points about her book. She spoke about the totalitarian concepts, consumerism,
alienation and the technique of eternal ‘space’ and ‘time’. The postmodern
values of totalitarianism are a struggle against the idealist concepts which
are silenced by the society. Man of
today’s era lives in solitude due to the virtual boundaries of time and space. The
truth and the real knowledge are decoded but it never comes to limelight as the
rhetoric falls short of revealing the ‘Truth’ as ‘Truth’. Hence, it is the
individual who struggles continuously to fix the truth:
He struggles believing that,
in every end, there’s a new beginning;
in every failure, there’s a new lesson
inscribed;
in every disappointment, there’s a new
confidential stance;
in every untruth, there’s
a truth waiting to be explored;
Which tunes the ‘one’ to
the ‘other’--the final truth.
Yet, the rhetoric with its ‘gaps’ and
‘silences’ prevents
the declaration of truth.
But, the individual
embarks on a mission, to legitimize the ‘Truth’–the beyond
with a hope that, the
world will experience the truth,
and the truth of inevitability
and the truth of the ‘Other’,
which, indeed defines the postmodern canon.
The
programme ended with the Question and Answer session.
