By: Monica Gupta,
on 7/28/2016
रजनीकांत के जोक्स पोकीमॉन गो और रजनीकांत -रजनीकांत की कबाली फिल्म रिलीज होने से पहले लीक हो गई तब सच मानिए मैं उचित शब्द खोजने लगी क्योकि लीक शब्द रजनीकांत के नाम के साथ सूट नही करता.उनके लिए सुनामी टाईप शब्द होना चाहिए.. पर शब्द नही मिला तो कार्टून भी नही बना. जब गूगल […]
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By: Monica Gupta,
on 6/21/2016
विवादित, बडबोले, अमर्यादित बयान और निशाने पर महिलाए ( अगर नेट पर विवादित बयान सर्च करेंगें तो आप पाएगें कि भरा पडा है गूगल सर्च नेताओ के विवादित बयानो से ) आज अचानक सुर्खियों में आए सलमान खान अपने विवादित बयान रेप्ड वूमन के साथ जोकि न सिर्फ महिलाओ को बल्कि उनके फैंस को भी […]
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By: Helena Palmer,
on 2/28/2016
When a weary Egeon laments in the first scene of The Comedy of Errors that in quest of his lost son he has spent five years "Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia," Shakespeare is characteristically using the word only in its classical sense, to indicate the Roman province of Asia Minor, a territory roughly equivalent to that of modern Turkey. Shakespeare’s sense of the geography of the rather larger area we now call Asia, like that of many fellow-Elizabethans, is more vague.
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By: Helena Palmer,
on 7/7/2015
In celebration of The BBC Proms 120th anniversary we have created a comprehensive reading list of books, journals, and online resources that celebrate the eight- week British summer season of orchestral music, live performances, and late-night music and poetry.
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By: Monica Gupta,
on 6/29/2015
बच्चे और कार्टून चैनल – बहुत सारे बच्चे पार्क में खेलते हुए बतिया रहे थे कुछ स्कूल की तो कुछ होम वर्क की बाते कर रहे थे और एक बच्चों का समूह शायद थक हार कर बैठ गया था और उनके बीच शुरु हो गया कार्टून का वार्तालाप. सभी अपनी अपनी पसंद के कार्टून बता रहे थे. किसी को डेक्स्टर किसी को पावर पफ गर्ल तो किसी क शिन चैन पसंद है…
शिन चैन का नाम लेते ही मुझे याद आया कि कुछ दिनों पहले जब शिन चैन देख अतो उसकी शब्दावली ऐसी थी कि अगर बच्चे बोले तो …. अच्छा नही लगेगा. वैसे एक ये भी महसूस की कि अगर कोई मूवी डब हो हिंदी में या कार्टून हिंदी मे डब हो तो भाषा बहुत गंदी इस्तेमाल करते हैं जबकि आम बोल चाल मॆं ऐसा नही होता.
इसी की कुछ और बाते सर्च करने के लिए मैनें पर देखा.
आजकल कार्टून की दुनिया भी अपनी सोच और हास्य में बॉलीवुड फ़िल्मों की तरह हो गई है. फ़िल्मों पर ‘क़ैंची’ चलनी तो आम बात थी ही अब बच्चों के कार्टूनों पर भी क़ैंची लगने लगी है.
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आजकल कार्टून की दुनिया भी अपनी सोच और हास्य में बॉलीवुड फ़िल्मों की तरह हो गई है. फ़िल्मों पर ‘क़ैंची’ चलनी तो आम बात थी ही अब बच्चों के कार्टूनों पर भी क़ैंची लगने लगी है.
जिन कार्टूनों को देखकर बच्चे हँसते हैं, ख़ुश होते हैं उन पर भी ‘कैंची’ चलने का दौर शुरू हो गया है.
भारत में पिछले एक दशक में ‘जापानी’ कार्टूनों ने अपना दबदबा बनाया है. जो बच्चे ‘टॉम एंड जेरी’ और ‘टेलस्पिन’ जैसे कार्टून देखा करते थे. वहीँ आज ‘डोरेमोन’, ‘शिनचैन’ जैसे कार्टून चरित्रों के दीवाने हैं.
बी.सी.सी.सी, यानि ‘ब्राडकास्टिंग कंटेंट कम्प्लेंट्स काउंसिल’ एक संस्था है. यहां टेलीविज़न पर दिखाए जा रहे कार्यक्रम के ‘आपत्तिजनक’ दृश्यों के विरोध में कोई भी शिकायत दर्ज करा सकता है.
हाल ही में बी.सी.सी.सी में बहुत से माता पिता ने शिकायतें दर्ज कीं. इन शिकायतों में कहा गया कि कार्टून चैनल ‘अनुचित’ दृश्य दिखा रहे हैं. बी.सी.सी.सी ने तुरंत इन कार्टून चैनलों को हिदायत दी की वे ऐसा कोई दृश्य न दिखाए जो बच्चों के लिए ठीक न हों.
अब कार्टून चैनल आपत्तिजनक दृश्यों को हटा कर उन्हें बिलकुल ही नए रूप में ढाल रहे हैं.
डबिंग इंडस्ट्री के निर्देशक या क्रिएटिव एक्सपर्ट ऐसे कार्टूनों पर अपनी पैनी नज़रें जमाए रखते हैं. उन्हें बदल कर वे ऐसे कार्टून तैयार करते हैं जिसके चाहने वाले देश भर के बच्चे होते हैं.
कार्टून किरदारों को डब करते वक़्त छोटी मोटी तब्दीलियाँ अक्सर हर विदेशी कार्टून और प्रोग्राम में करनी पड़ती है. क्योंकि उनके विचार स्थानीय दर्शकों के विचारों से मेल नहीं खाते.
पर कई बार कार्टून की तब्दीलियाँ काफ़ी अजीब और मज़ेदार होती हैं.
अलका शर्मा अरसे से शिनचैन की आवाज़ रही. ‘शिनचैन’ जापानी कार्टून है. वह एक पांच साल का बच्चा है और अपने माता पिता और बहन के साथ रहता है.
शिनचैन बेहद नटखट किरदार है और बच्चों में ख़ासा लोकप्रिय है. अलका शर्मा ने ‘शिनचैन’ में हुई कुछ मज़ेदार तब्दीलियों के बारे में बताया.
अलका बताती हैं की कई बार डबिंग डायरेक्टर स्क्रिप्ट बदल देते थे.
वे कहती हैं, “अक्सर हम ‘ओरिजिनल’ स्क्रिप्ट को छोड़ देते थे और स्क्रीन पर शिनचैन जो कर रहा है उसी से एक नयी कहानी बना लेते थे.”
उन्होंने आगे बताया, “अगर कोई ख़ूबसूरत लड़की जा रही है तो शिनचैन ‘ओरिजिनल’ स्क्रिप्ट में कहता था ‘ओये होट्टी मेरे साथ डेट पर चलोगी’. तो हम उसे बदल कर बोलते थे ‘अरे दीदी! आपकी ड्रेसिंग सेंस तो बहुत अच्छी है. मुझे भी अपने साथ शौपिंग पर ले चलो.’ इस तरह से हम उसे बिल्कुल सरल और सभ्य बना देते थे.’ See more…
amitabh bachchan to play superhero cartoon in tv series: :
एक सूत्र ने कहा कि 72 साल के महानायक ने ‘एस्ट्रा फोर्स’ कार्टून के लिए एंटरटेनमेंट कंपनी ग्राफिक इंडिया और डिजनी से हाथ मिलाया है. इस सुपरहीरो की रचना अमिताभ और ग्राफिक इंडिया के सीईओ और सहसंस्थापक शरद देवराजन को करनी है. अमिताभ बच्चन के सुपरहीरो अवतार वाली इस काटूर्न सीरीज को डिजनी चैनल लॉन्च करेगा. यह कार्टून हंसी-मजाक, मारधाड़ , रोमांच और रहस्य से भरपूर बताया गया है.
अमिताभ छोटे पर्दे पर इससे पहले रियलिटी शो ‘कौन बनेगा करोड़पति’ के सूत्रधार के रूप में और धारावाहिक ‘युद्ध’ में मुख्य भूमिका में नजर आ चुके हैं. Read more…
कार्टून साफ सुथरी हों प्रेरक हों तो बहुत कुछ हम इनसे सीख सकते हैं जैसाकि बचपन में हम अमर चित्र कथा पढ कर सीखते थे. अगर सुधार नही होगा हर बच्चा बहुत शान से शीन चैन जैसे किरदार बोलता नजर आएगा और हमारी आखॆ शर्म से झुकती चली जाएगी …
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By: Michelina Ouellette,
on 2/3/2015
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By: Savita Kalhan,
on 3/4/2013
For both the reader and the writer, endings are extremely powerful things. I know I feel like celebrating when I’ve typed the words THE END on a manuscript, even though I’m fully aware that in the life of a finished manuscript the hard work has only just begun. Which type of ending did I go for? Fairy Tale, Hollywood, Bollywood or Hopeless?
Fairy tale endings represent the typical ‘happily ever after’ ending, as in the Hansel and Gretel variety.
Bollywood endings are happy endings too, but tempered by the extreme tragedies that have taken place; and they’re happy because everyone, who hasn’t died, is reunited at the end.
I don’t tend to write light humorous stories, oh, okay, I’ll be honest – my writing is actually quite dark. The Long Weekend was a story of two boys who are abducted after school. It’s labelled by the publishers as ‘not suitable for younger readers’ without stating a specific age on the back of the book. The boys are eleven years old, so you might think it was suitable for perhaps ten year olds to read. Well, it might be for a few. It’s the kind of book that cannot have a hopeless ending because it is for kids and because of what happens in the book. My agent actually asked me to write an epilogue because she was of the opinion that you could not end a children’s book, particularly a book like The Long Weekend, without some element of hope for the reader to take away at the end. I think she was right.
When I read books as a child ...and they lived happily ever after, was an ending I expected. I read lots of fairy tales from all across the world and they always ended like this too, no matter what terrible things had befallen the main characters. Years later when I read books to my young son, little had changed. They nearly all had happy endings. I remember once finding a book in the library that didn’t end happily and reading it to him. When we reached the end, he was really angry at the writer for not writing a proper ending. He’s a teenager now and although he still reads teen/YA fiction, he also reads adult books. I asked him about a book he read recently – Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower, and he said, “It’s full of broken dreams,” but it’s really good. I haven’t read it yet, but I guess its ending must not be so dark, or maybe because he’s a little older he’s more ready for the occasional ‘hopeless’ ending..jpeg?picon=3604)
By: Katie DeKoster,
on 2/25/2012
The Grand Plan to Fix Everything by Una Krishnaswami, Illustrated by Abigail Halpin, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011, 272 pp, ISBN: 1416995897
By: Rebecca,
on 9/25/2007
Philip Davis, our favorite new blogger is back with more commentary today. Davis is professor of English literature at Liverpool University, author of Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life, and editor of The Reader. This post originally appeared on Moreover.
Dear America,
This week someone from Education (it would be) said to me, ‘I am comfortable with my belief-systems.’ I blame you, collectively, for this. (more…)
By: Sylvia Vardell,
on 4/17/2007
Along with everyone else, I’ve been following the unfolding of events at Virginia Tech with shock and sadness. As a college professor, it’s unnerving to think of a campus as unsafe. As a parent of college-age children, it’s even more terrifying. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those coping with the aftermath. I also remembered that there’s a poet on that campus. Nikki Giovanni has been on the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia since 1987. I believe she will be participating in the convocation planned there shortly. How lovely to have a poet participating in this grieving process. I looked quickly for one of her poems to showcase at this moment and found this one.
The World Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be
by Nikki Giovanni
the world is not a pleasant place
to be without
someone to hold and be held by
a river would stop
its flow if only
a stream were there
to receive it
an ocean would never laugh
if clouds weren't there
to kiss her tears
the world is not
a pleasant place to be without
someone
Here are a few collections of poetry for young people with poems that I find comforting during difficult times.
Georgia Heard. This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort
Naomi Shihab Nye. What Have You Lost
Nancy Willard. Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey
Arnold Adoff. Love Letters
Francisco X. Alarcon. Poems to Dream Together
Nikki Grimes. Hopscotch Love: A Family Treasury of Love Poems
Pat Mora. Love to Mama: A Tribute to Mothers
Langston Hughes. The Dreamkeeper
Cynthia Rylant. God Went to Beauty School
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Interesting post - I can remember reading a book, which I loved the whole way through. When I got to the ending it was 'hopeless' - it upset me at the time, although admittedly suited the book better. Perhaps all sad endings should have a warning just before you read it, or an alternative happier ending as well?
x Tammie
Tolkein, in his essay 'On Fairytales' said that to be a true fairytale, there must be a happy ending.
But we are not discussing fairytales here and different rules apply. I think an ending in a children's book doesn't have to subscribe to the rules of the traditional 'happy ending' scenario - there can be more honesty than that - but it should leave the protagonist at least having learned positive lessons and better able to continue into the future beyond the end of the book.
So maybe a reasonable option is 'the positive ending' which, as a consequence of realism, need not necessarily be happy.
Tammie, it's interesting how you remember the book with the 'hopeless' ending - those kinds of books seem to leave a lasting impression.
Austin, I agree that for certain children's stories a 'lessons learnt' ending is more honest, as long as it's generally positive. It's the desolate, 'unhappy' ending which seems to be unnacceptable to children, particularly younger ones.
Brecht said: THERE MUST BE HAPPY ENDINGS, MUST, MUST, MUST! And Catherine Storr (Marianne dreams and Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf) said: you can have a SAD ending but not a hopeless one. It was wrong, she thought. to leave kids who are reading the book with NO RAY OF LIGHT WHATEVER at the end. Which is what 'hopeless' is. Not the same thing at all as a sad ending which can be full of sadness but still leave a glimpse of a possible future/redemption etc. I like happy endings myself...don't mind people walking off into the sunset one bit. What I can't bear is books that don't end properly. Books in which it's up to the reader to decide what happens. I call that a shifting of a writer's responsibility on to the reader. Ambiguity can be a strange sort of ending too...leaving you puzzled but not satisfied. Has to be as strong as the beginning I reckon. My favourite ending of all is the Great Gatsby...
I agree that a sad ending is not necessarily the same as a hopeless one - I do think children can cope with a bit of sadness, but not total bleakness. One of my favourite books as a young teenager was Beau Geste (odd, I know, but I read it about 10 times...) I was desperately sad about the fact that Beau died, but there were other characters to identify with that made it through to the end and gave you that satisfying 'all cried out but ready to smile again' feeling.
I agree - sad is not the same as hopeless, and for me, as I said in the blog, hopeless has no place in children's literature, or even in teen literature. I think we could all cope with a sad ending - as long as there is the glimmer of hope amongst it. I would love to write 'happily ever after' endings, but my stories never seem to co-operate with me!
Brecht said that, Adele?!?!?!? Brecht, who wrote the most depressing play in the world? (Mother Courage). ha!
I think if you're telling a story to children it has to end happily. It can be as ghastly and miserable and scary as you like on the way there but it has to be resolved positively. Prefer it if characters change and grow on the way though, don't like the Hollywood formula of the status quo being maintained at the end.
For adults though, I think its different. Some of my favourite endings are ambiguous at the least. I'm thinking of Daphne du Maurier's 'The Birds' (the book not the film) which almost doesn't have an ending at all. And 'Angels with Dirty Faces' (OK a film not a book but we're talking Hollywood endings) where you never really work out what happened.
And then there are the really tragic gut wrenching endings. The last paragraph of Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' left me feeling like I'd been slapped in the face. And I still love the end of 'Planet of the Apes' (I know, another film).
I like an ending which somehow sums up the experience of the whole and leaves you with something long after you've put the book down (or left the cinema).
Anyone seen 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'? Saw it a month ago and I'm still thinking about it.
Jeremy - Things Fall Apart got me too. Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance is a gut-wrenching story, but if you haven't had a chance to read it I won't spoil the ending. Let's just say it's not a Hollywood ending! I agree that in kid's lit, the ending has to be positive, particularly if the story has been dark. I haven't seen Martha Marcy May Marlene, but I'll look out for it.
It's disturbing as hell, Savita. You'd like it.
Will check out 'A Fine Balance'