User talk:Sydney Ambrose
Gita-milindam, Song of the Bumblebee is a famous Lyrics in Sanskrit written by Indian PoetPoet,Manmohan_Acharya . Contents [edit] Theme
It contains 15 gunjans (songs) in different melodious Rhythms . The Poet sweeped over untouched horizons and speakes for the common mass.The couple of bumble-bees are the natural singers and enjoyers of life 's honey. By taking them as anchors of his presentation of poetic message,the poet has not only shown a creative technique but also suggested his attitude to life. Looking at his off-beat theme, none can deny that he is projecting the voice of the mass and hence a postmodern poet.Manmohan_Acharya, the author of Gita milindam, the theme he presents is not courtly love. While subverting the Jayadeva tradition he rather composed a parody that ridicules the lyrical romantic love in the very lyrical structure that is popular for such presentation in the Sanskrit literary tradition. The male and female bumblebees are the hero and heroine of the poem that presents their dialogues in different cantos. The male bee is a passionate lover of sensual enjoyment whereas the female bee opposes it. The male is the hero of the Omar Khayam who wishes to live away the whole life in sensuality, a Tennysonian "lotus eater", heedless to the closure of the lotus flower at sunset and even its death due to this closure. The female partner warns it reminding it of the contemporary social and economic crises in child labour,unemployment, political corruption that shatters the whole society resulting in severe and pitiable that compels an old woman like archetypical Kunti for moving from door to door.Doctors are taking the lives of living human beings whereas the god of death takes away the lives of only dead person. The September 11 horror of the New_York_City is reminded. Environmental pollution, children's death due to starvation and many other social problem sought to draw the notice of the bee-poets for presenting their experience rather than the etherealand non-earthy high pitch of Romanticism of the bygone days. The female bee of course is not a materialist, but certainly a representative of the Marxist socialism objecting to the feudalistic luxury and courtly ideology as the age-old Sanskrit_literature has dealt with. Poet Manomohan has been successful to lyricize the theme that has been considered anti-lyrical so far. The reader wonders how Acharya has posed a challenging task for reorienting the Sanskrit language for accommodating the contemporary theme in the traditional meters [1].While using nine ragas from Jayadeva,(cantos 1-5, 8-10 and 13), he has used other Raga from other sources, the six ragas, Abhinava being his own invention. [edit] Quotations
'O! Poet Bumblebee, don’t repeat such poetry on ornamented face of a lady dazzling through fish like eyes and glorified by long black hairs. Here, the foetus of girl child, swimming fearlessly in mother’s womb is killed by her own father. Sita........, an innocent girl is made like a commodity in the horrible dowry market.'[2] 'O! Partner Bumblebee, realize the pain. Please think deeply on it. Remember that the pen which steals both hunger and attention, is really a pen, nectar-flowing.'[3] [edit] Translations
Gitamilindam was translated into English by Bernad Ambrose. Dr. R.N.Mohapatra, Former Professor and Head, P.G.Department of Hindi, Ravenshaw University translated the poetry into Hindi.
Hi Sydney, Thanks for your contribution to the page. However, you put in a blank section for "Studies And Researches on Odissi". I am suppressing that for the time being till we have some apt content for it. Thanks. --Karan1974 (talk) 18:31, 9 March 2012 (UTC)