कविता  :  मेरे गांव में âŹ†ď¸

 ŕ¤•ाि  :  जोत्सना जरी

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 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž दोस्त और रिश्तेदार

 ŕ¤•ऌऎ से कदम ऎिलञ

 ŕ¤”र अपने घर आ गया।

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 ŕ¤œŕ¤Ź इंद्रधनुष के रंग का आसमान

 ŕ¤‰ŕ¤Şŕ¤°ŕ¤ż च༈…

 ŕ¤šŕ¤žŕ¤ľŕ¤˛ में मिर्च और नमक मिलाने के एञऌ

 ŕ¤Śŕ¤žŕ¤ŚŕĽ€ सिर्फ खाने के लिए बुलाती हैं।

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 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž दोस्त और रिश्तेदार

 ŕ¤ŕ¤• सञ़ चावल की थाली खाएं।

 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž केले के पत्तों की बेड़ा पर बैठते हैं

 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž सिर्फ ऌिल खोलकर गाते हैं।

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 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž दोस्त और रिश्तेदार

 ŕ¤›ŕ¤žŕ¤¤ŕĽŕ¤°ŕ¤žŕ¤ľŕ¤žŕ¤¸ में रहते हैं

 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž एच༁त कुछ महसूस करते हैं

 ŕ¤Ťŕ¤żŕ¤° भी एच༁त कुछ बचा च༈༤

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 ŕ¤¨ŕ¤żŕ¤Żŕ¤ŽŕĽ‹ŕ¤‚ की मर्यादा छोड़कर

 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž इधर उधर मुड़ते हैं

 ŕ¤•भༀ-कभी रील चञ़ में लेकर

 ŕ¤šŕ¤Ž ऎ༈ऌञन के चारों ओर पतंग उड़ाते हैं।

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 ŕ¤Žŕ¤žŕ¤ गुस्से में कहती च༈

 ŕ¤“च, त༁ऎ पागल और शरारती हो

 ŕ¤Śŕ¤žŕ¤‚त विहीन चेहरे से मुस्कुराते हैं दादाजी

 ŕ¤Ťŕ¤żŕ¤° ाच नाक में सूंघता च༈༤

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 ŕ¤…र༇ सुनो,

 ŕ¤Żŕ¤šŕ¤žŕ¤ एक ऐसञ अजीब देश च༈

 ŕ¤ľŕĽŕ¤°ŕĽ‡ŕ¤¨ ड्रैंगो, वैगटेल, मार्टिन, पैराकीट

 ŕ¤¸ŕ¤­ŕĽ€ पक्षी पेड़ की शाखा पर नृत्य करते हैं।

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 ŕ¤…गर आप इस गांव में आना चाहते हैं

 ŕ¤—༂गल मैप्स पर जाएं

 ŕ¤ŽŕĽŕ¤ŕĽ‡ ढूढ़ें…

 ŕ¤›ŕĽ‹ŕ¤ŸŕĽ‡ से गाँव की नदी से।

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 ŕ¤œŕĽŕ¤—न༂ रञत में जलता च༈

 ŕ¤Źŕ¤žŕ¤ŕ¤¸ के बगीचे की ऊँची शाखा पर

 ŕ¤Żŕ¤šŕ¤žŕ¤‚ आइए, देखिए ये सारे नजारे

 ŕ¤šŕ¤žŕ¤Ľ में चञ़ डालकर।

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 ŕ¤ŽŕĽ‡ŕ¤°ŕĽ‡ छोटे से सुनहरे गाँव में

 ŕ¤¸ŕ¤‚कर༇ रास्ते पर

 ŕ¤•ितनༀ कहानियां होती हैं

 ŕ¤šŕ¤° ऌिन…

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 [  एन बी –

 ŕ¤¸ŕĽ‚ŕ¤‚ŕ¤˜ŕ¤¨ŕĽ‡ का उल्लेख हो सकता च༈: सूंघना (तंबाकू), महीन पिसञ हुआ तंबाकू, नाक में सूँघना नऎ सूंघना यञ तंबाकू सूंघना ऎलञईऌञर सूंघना, एक भारतीय तंबाकू का पेस्ट सूंघना।  ]

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نظم: میرے گاؤں Ů…ŰŒÚş

 Ř´Ř§ŘšŘąŰ: جوتسنا جری

 .

 ŰŮ… دوست اوع عشتہ داع

 Ů‚ŘŻŮ… بہ قدم چلا

 Ř§ŮˆŘą اپنے گڞع آ گیا.

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 ŘŹŘ¨ قوس قزح ڊا رنگ آسمان

 Ř§ŮˆŮžŘą ہے…

 Ú†Ř§ŮˆŮ„ کے ساتڞ مرچ اوع نمک ملانے کے بؚد

 ŘŻŘ§ŘŻŰŒ ابھی کھانے کے لیے بلاتی ہیں۔

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 ŰŮ… دوست اوع عشتہ داع

 Ř§ŰŒÚŠ ŮžŮ„ŰŒŮš چاول ایک ساتڞ کھائیں۔

 ŰŮ… کیلے کے ٞتوں کے بیڑے ٞع بیٹھتے ہیں۔

 ŰŮ… ؾعف دل سے گاتے ہیں۔

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 ŰŮ… دوست اوع عشتہ داع

 ŰŘ§ŘłŮšŮ„ میں رہتے ہیں

 ŰŮ…ŰŒÚş بہت سی چیزیں محسوس ہوتی ہیں۔

 Ř§Ř¨ÚžŰŒ ŘŞÚŠ بہت کچھ باقی ہے.

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 Ů‚ŮˆŘ§ŘšŘŻ ÚŠŰŒ حدود ڊو چھوڑ ÚŠŘą

 ŰŮ… یہاں اوع وہاں ڊا ع؎ کرتے ہیں۔

 ÚŠŘ¨ÚžŰŒ ہاتڞ میں ریل لے ÚŠŘą

 ŰŮ… میدان میں پتنگ اڑاتے ہیں۔

 .

 Ů…اں غصے سے کہتی ہے۔

 Ř§ŮˆŰŘŒ تم پاگل اوع شرارتی ہو

 ŘŻŘ§ŘŻŘ§ بے دانت چہرے کے ساتڞ مسکرائے۔

 ŮžÚžŘą وہ نسوار ڊو ناک میں ڈالتا ہے۔

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 Ř§ŘąŰ’ سنو،

 ŰŒŰŘ§Úş ایک ایسا مضحکہ خیز ملک ہے۔

انگلی دوئیل شالک تیا

 ŘŞŮ…ام پرندے دع؎ت کی شا؎ ٞع رقص کرتے ہیں۔

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 Ř§ÚŻŘą آٞ اس گاؤں میں آنا چاہتے ہیں۔

 ÚŻŮˆÚŻŮ„ میپس ٞع جائیں۔

 Ů…؏ڞے تلاش ڊعو…

 Ú†ÚžŮˆŮšŰ’ گاؤں کے ندی کے کنارے۔

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 ŘąŘ§ŘŞ ÚŠŮˆ چراغ جلتا ہے۔

 Ř¨Ř§Ů†Řł کے باغ کی اونچی شا؎ ٞع

 ŰŒŰŘ§Úş آؤ، یہ سارے مناظر دیکھیں

 ŰŘ§ŘŞÚž میں ہاتڞ سے.

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 Ů…ŰŒŘąŰ’ چھوٹے سے سنہری گاؤں میں

 ŘŞŮ†ÚŻ ŘąŘ§ŘłŘŞŰ’ ٞع

 ÚŠŘŞŮ†ŰŒ کہانیاں ہوتی ہیں۔

 ŰŘą عوز…

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 [ N. B –

 Ů†ŘłŮˆŘ§Řą ڊا حوالہ دے سکتے ہیں: نسوار (تمباکو)، باریک پیسنے والا تمباکو، ناک میں سونگھا ہوا نمی نسوار یا ڈپنگ تمباکو کریمی نسوار، ایک ہندوستانی تمباکو ڊا پیسٹ نسوار۔  ]

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Стихотворение : В ПОоК деревне âŹ†ď¸

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Стихотворение  :  В ПОоК деревне

 ĐŸĐžŃŃ‚  :  Йотсна Яри

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 ĐœŃ‹ друзья и родственники

 ŃˆĐľĐť шаг Са шагОП

 Đ¸ пришел в собственный дОП.

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 ĐšĐžĐłĐ´Đ° нойО цвета радуги

 Đ˝Đ°Ń…ĐžĐ´Đ¸Ń‚ŃŃ над гОНОвОК…

 ĐŸĐžŃĐťĐľ смешивания чили и сОНи с рисом

 Đ‘Đ°ĐąŃƒŃˆĐşĐ° просто зовет кушать.

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 ĐœŃ‹ друзья и родственники

 Đ˛ĐźĐľŃŃ‚Đľ съесть тарелку риса.

 ĐœŃ‹ сидиП на плоту иС банановых листьев

 ĐźŃ‹ просто пОоП от всогО сердца.

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 ĐœŃ‹ друзья и родственники

 ĐśĐ¸Ń‚ŃŒ в общежитии

 ĐœŃ‹ чувствуем ПнОгО вещей

 Đ˝Đž так ПнОгО осталось.

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 Đ’Ń‹Ń…ĐžĐ´Ń Са рамки правил

 ĐźŃ‹ поворачиваемся туда-сюда

 Đ˜Đ˝ĐžĐłĐ´Đ° с катушкой в ​​руке

 ĐˇĐ°ĐżŃƒŃĐşĐ°ĐľĐź воздушных СПоов пО полю.

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 ĐœĐ°Ń‚ŃŒ говорит сердито

 Đž, ты суПасшодшиК и озорной

 Đ”ĐľĐ´ŃƒŃˆĐşĐ° улыбается беззубым лицом

 ĐˇĐ°Ń‚оП Он тянет нюхательный табак в нОс.

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 Đ­Đš ХНушаК,

 Đ˛ĐžŃ‚ такая забавная страна

 ĐšŃ€Đ°ĐżĐ¸Đ˛Đ˝Đ¸Đş дранго, трясогузка, мартин, пОпугаК

 Đ˛ŃĐľ птицы танцуют на ветке дерева.

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 Đ•сНи вы хотите приехать в эту деревню

 ĐżĐľŃ€ĐľĐšŃ‚и на гугН карты

 ĐĐ°ĐšĐ´Đ¸ меня…

 Ńƒ небольшой деревенской реки.

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 ĐĄĐ˛ĐľŃ‚ĐťŃŃ‡ĐžĐş светится ночью

 Đ˝Đ° высокой ветке йаПйукОвОгО сада

 Đ˜Đ´Đ¸ сюда, посмотри на всо эти сцены

 Ń€ŃƒĐşĐ° Ой руку.

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 Đ’ ПОоК маленькой золотой деревне

 Đ˝Đ° уСкОП пути

 ĐĄĐşĐžĐťŃŒĐşĐž историй происходит

 ĐľĐśĐľĐ´Đ˝ĐľĐ˛Đ˝Đž…

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 [  Н. Б –

 ĐŃŽŃ…Đ°Ń‚ĐľĐťŃŒĐ˝Ń‹Đš табак может означать: Нюхательный табак (табак), табак тонкого пОПОНа, вдыхаемый в нОс Влажный нюхательный табак иНи табак для макания Сливочный нюхательный табак, индийская табачная паста Нюхательный табак.  ]

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JEAN-PAUL MARAT : The incarnation of the godless Revolution

writer : jotsna jari

“Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.  – Jean-Paul Marat

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🌹 MARAT, JEAN-PAUL  ⬆️

MARAT, JEAN-PAUL (1743–1793), French revolutionary political journalist, physician, and leader of the Jacobin Mountain.

Jean-Paul Marat is best known to posterity for two things: first, his populist, not to say rabble-rousing, journal, L’ami du peuple (Friend of the people), which phrase he also adopted for his revolutionary sobriquet; and second, Jacques-Louis David‘s painting of his assassination, at the hands of Charlotte Corday, while lying naked in his oily bath, wherein he found slight relief from the eczema that covered his unsightly skin and exacerbated his already acerbic soul.

Born on 24 May 1743 in Boudry, Neuchâtel, and thus a francophone Prussian subject in his youth, Marat took only peripheral interest in politics prior to the convening of the Estates-General in May 1789. Medicine was his intended vocation. He began following courses in Paris in 1762 and in 1765 moved to London, where he treated venereal disease. The University of St. Andrews, Scotland, a diploma mill for higher degrees, awarded him a doctorate in 1775. Thereupon he returned to Paris and opened a general practice, not without some success. Among his clients was a noted lady, the marquise de Laubespine, and he was named physician to the Garde du Corps of the comte d’Artois, brother of King Louis XVI (and the future Charles X).

Two early writings, A Philosophical Essay on Man (1773) and Chains of Slavery (1774), were respectively philosophical and political. Denouncing tyranny, the latter gave a foretaste of what was to come. Such was the prestige of science in the late Enlightenment, however, that Marat thought to rise above minor bourgeois status rather through that route than through letters, medicine, or public affairs.

Between 1778 and 1789 he sought election to the Paris Academy of Science and besieged it with a series of experimental memoirs on fire, heat, light, color, and electricity. Certain effects he produced by means of shining a beam of sunlight through a modified microscope were neither known nor empty, but they were of minor interest at best and held nothing of the cosmic and anti-Newtonian significance he claimed for them.

Academic commissions reviewed the early submissions in correct if mildly dismissive fashion, after which the academy ignored him—for Marat made a pest of himself. Of paranoid disposition, he always attributed reverses to persecution and to plots. The chance for revenge came with the Revolution. His diatribe Les charlatans modernes (1791; The modern charlatans) excoriates his oppressors of the scientific establishment, fore-most among them Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace. It had a major influence preparing public opinion for the suppression of the Academy of Science on 8 August 1793 in the wave of hostility to privilege and authority of every sort that accompanied the Terror.

Persecuted by the Academy of Science, Marat wrote not long before his death that he had welcomed the Revolution for the opportunity to reach a proper place in the world. Marat was a vivid writer and became a polemical journalist, externalizing his own resentments to champion the poor, the downtrodden, the wretched of the earth, in short, the proletariat. The first issue of L’ami du peuple appeared in September 1789. Marat opened with praise of the prospect for a just society. Such was his suspicious nature that successive issues soon took to denouncing the infidelity, indeed the perfidy, of the institutions and persons in power: the Commune of Paris and its mayor, Jean-Sylvain Bailly; the Constituent Assembly and its early spokesman, the comte de Mirabeau; the National Guard and its commander, the marquis de Lafayette; the royal family and its prospective treachery; the Legislative Assembly and its subservience to moderates and ministers of state; and the army and its initially victorious commander, Charles-François du PĂŠrier Dumouriez. Paranoids are not ipso facto wrong, however. Such was the irreconcilability of factions that Marat’s suspicions were often accurate, as in the instances among others of the royal family, Mirabeau, and Dumouriez.

Marat owed his effect not to the cogency of his political ideas, banal in themselves, but to the brilliance of his style. His was an invective genius in a time of latent hatreds burst into the open. His inflammatory writing earned him several arrests and detentions. He frequently had to go into hiding while continuing to publish at irregular intervals. On two occasions he took refuge in London. There is no way to measure the extent of his influence in summoning the mob into the streets on the insurrectional days of October 1789, which brought the royal family from Versailles to virtual captivity in Paris; for the rising of 10 August 1792 that overthrew the monarchy; and for the massacres that followed in September. But there is no doubt that his incitement was an effective factor.

Only with election to the National Convention in September 1792 did Marat hold political office. In the struggle between the Gironde and the Jacobin Mountain that defined the first phase of that body’s history, Marat sided polemically with the latter. So vicious did his attacks become, calling for something like a dictatorship of the people, that the Girondist faction, barely dominant throughout the winter and early spring of 1792 to 1793, voted his indictment for incendiary acts. Theirs was a Pyrrhic victory. Acquitted on 14 April, Marat was borne from the courtroom on the shoulders of the crowd. His triumph led directly to the rising of 31 May that forced the expulsion of the Girondist deputies from the Convention and opened the way to the Jacobin dictatorship of the Terror. On 13 July, the eve of Bastille Day, Charlotte Corday, daughter of a devout and royalist Norman family, gained access to Marat’s dwelling and stabbed to death the incarnation of the godless Revolution.

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David(1793)

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Good Earth âŹ†ď¸

    “The test of a civilization is in the way

     that it cares for its helpless members ”

                            – Pearl S. Buck

. review : jotsna jari

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, wgas an American writer and novelist. She is noted for her novels of life in China.

She is best known for The Good Earth 

which was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her “masterpieces”, two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.

The Good Earth Pa Paperback – Import, 25 January 2016

       The Good Earth, first edition, 1931

The Good Earth(1931) is a poignant tale of a Chinese peasant and his slave-wife and their struggle upward.

The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a prosperous landowner. He is aided immeasurably by his equally humble wife, O-Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to the land, to duty, and to survival. Pearl S Buck combines descriptions of marriage, parenthood, and complex human emotions with depictions of Chinese reverence for the land and for a specific way of life.

This novel has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century.


Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.

💚 In her speech to the Nobel Academy, she took as her topic “The Chinese Novel.” She explained, “I am an American by birth and by ancestry”, but “my earliest knowledge of story, of how to tell and write stories, came to me in China.”

She also said : “To farmers he must talk of their land, and to old men he must speak of peace, and to old women he must tell of their children, and to young men and women he must speak of each other.” And like the Chinese novelist, she concluded, “I have been taught to want to write for these people. If they are reading their magazines by the million, then I want my stories there rather than in magazines read only by a few.”

Review : 

“Boston Transcript” One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal.

“Pittsburgh Post Gazette” One of the most important and revealing novels of our time.

“The New York Times” A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.

The Good Earth Pa Paperback – Import, 25 January 2016

Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from King Gustav V of Sweden in the Stockholm Concert Hall in 1938

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Female Iconoclasts – Hedda Sterne : beyond Beauty đŸ”ź

writer : jotsna jari

Hedda Sterne in her studio 

         “I believe … that isms and other

         classifications are misleading and

         diminishing. What entrances me in

         art is what cannot be entrapped 

         in words.” –  Hedda Sterne 

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❤️The work & wisdom of Hedda Sterne 🔼

Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011) was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism.

🔺Hedda Sterne, an artist whose association with the Abstract Expressionists became fixed forever when she appeared prominently in a now-famous 1951 Life magazine photograph of the movement’s leading lights.

Hedda Sterne, top, ‘rising like a feather in a cap’, the only woman in a portrait of New York School painters, including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, in the 15 January 1951 edition of Life magazine.

🔺 Grace Glueck wrote :- 

Hedda Sterne views her widely varied works more as “in flux” than as definitive statements. She has maintained a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism … Although she never developed a signature style, Ms. Sterne’s explorations have produced a small universe of evocative images.

🔺 In 2006, the art historian Josef Helfenstein wrote :-

Her independence reflected an immense artistic and personal integrity. The astonishing variety of Sterne’s work, spanning from her initial appropriation of surrealist techniques, to her investigation of conceptual painting, and her unprecedented installations in the 1960s, exemplify her adventurous spirit. Yet, the heterogeneity of her styles, and her complete disinterest in the commercially driven art world, have contributed to her exclusion from the canon. 

Sterne’s art is, indeed, a manifesto in favor of the untamable forces of the mind and the continually changing flux of life. 

It is wonderful to see Ms. Sterne finally coming out from behind the famous photograph and being seriously considered as a painter. 

❤️ Works :-

                          Untitled, 1941

Sterne believed that “art is essentially an act of freedom,” a sentiment that is embodied in her Surrealist works. Surrealists sought to liberate themselves from the strictures society placed on the conscious mind, letting free association, chance, and dreams play central roles in artmaking. With that came a blurring of the real and the surreal, the individual and the universal, fact and mystery. Sterne’s collage takes familiar elements – the woman’s hand, an eye, a garment – and combines them to elide any possibility of a metanarrative or truth. The image is unsettling, evocative of Freud’s concept of the uncanny, which he deemed “that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.”

Hedda Sterne,Untitled,oil on canvas,1962… Sold for $100,000, a record for the artist- 03 December, 2020 .

                  NY, NY No. X,   1948

NY, NY No. X 1948 is an oil painting by the Romanian-American artist Hedda Sterne. It shows a semi-abstract mass of lines and planes that appear to depict rooftops, walls, fences, ladders, fire escapes, towers, wood panels and other constructions against a bright blue background, the colour of the New York sky of the painting’s title. The blue and brown tones are punctuated by three small vertical bright red strips and several black and white strips, like pedestrian crossings viewed from above. The painting is one of a number of ‘New York, New York’ paintings and is characteristic of Sterne’s work of the late 1940s, when she was exploring her urban environment.

🤎 Born in Romania, Sterne fled Europe in 1941 and moved to New York.

She stated :-

When I came here, I became totally enthralled visually with the United States so I became like a premature pop artist. I started painting my kitchen, the kitchen stove, the bathroom appliances, everything where we lived. Then I went out and I painted Ford cars and the elevators. And then I went to the country and I started painting industrial machines, and then I painted roads. I became visual when I came here.
(Quoted in Krannert Art Museum 2006, p.16.)

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Cecil B. DeMille : Father of American Cinema đŸ”ź

writer : jotsna jari

Creativity is a drug  I can not live without this.”   – Cecil B. DeMille

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❤️ Cecil B. DeMille  ⬆️

(August 12, 1881 â€“ January 21, 1959)

He was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. 

🔺Overview :- 

Cecil Blount DeMille was a founder of the Hollywood motion-picture industry, one of the most commercially successful producer-directors of his time, and one of the most influential filmmakers in history. Between 1914 and 1956, he made seventy feature films; all but seven were profitable. Cecil B. DeMille is synonymous with religious epics: The King of Kings, Samson and Delilah, and The Ten Commandments (1956). He blended spectacle, sex, and spellbinding narrative to convey a message of faith.

It was DeMille who created the image of the omnipotent director, megaphone in hand, wearing boots and a visored cap. DeMille gave Hollywood numerous stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, William (“Hopalong Cassidy”) Boyd, Claudette Colbert, Robert Preston, Jean Arthur, and Charlton Heston.

DeMille created the posts of studio story editor, art director, and concept artist. He was one of the first to use theatrical lighting on a movie set. In the late 1920s, when Hollywood converted to sound films, DeMille defied the sound experts, liberating the camera from a confining booth, and implementing the microphone boom.

DeMille’s authority extended beyond the confines of his studio. He was a power in aviation, banking, politics, and real estate. In the 1930s, his fame as a filmmaker was surpassed by his fame as a radio star.

He was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an institution from which he eventually won two awards. In 1953 his film The Greatest Show on Earth won the Award for Best Picture of 1952; and he was presented with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

DeMille’s influence on world culture is incalculable, but there are estimates and milestones. His biography of Jesus Christ, The King of Kings, was a silent film, but because of a unique distribution arrangement, it was eventually seen by 800 million viewers. Samson and Delilah (1949) and The Ten Commandments (1956) are still listed with the top ten all-time box-office champions. They continue to generate revenue and provoke thought.

Cecil B. DeMille directing The Ten Commandments in Egypt, November  1954. Portrait by G.E. Richardson

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First Published Bible đŸ”ź

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   the illustrated page of Bible (known as

   Gutenberg Bible or 42- line Bible – 

   first published ), Gutenberg Museum. 

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“Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and

 I will conquer the world. “- J. Gutenberg

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First Printed Bible (February 23, 1455): –

 The Immortal Creation of a Poor Printer…

 Yes … he invented the printing press.

 His name is Johannes Gutenberg.

 His printing is just a revolution.

 This printing has played an important role in the development of Renaissance,   Reformation, Enlightenment and scientific Revolution.  

🔺  Historical events–

 âœ“ 23.02.1455 – Gutenberg first Bible

 Print.  About 180 copies were printed,   mostly on paper and some on Velum.

 This first printed edition of the Bible 

 has been praised for its high aesthetic   and technical quality.

💠 Rare Opinions During First Bible Publishing :-

 “Everything that has been written to me   about that wonderful man I met in   Frankfurt is true. I have not seen the whole Bible….  

 The script was very neat and clear,

 It was not difficult to follow.

 By your grace … easily without glasses

 I can read. “

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🔸( To Cardinal Carvajal … Future Pope 

 Pills-II wrote the above letter, 1455 ;

 # here that wonderful man is Gutenberg.

 # Then printing of Bible is not 

  completed yet, but the Bible is 

  in printing process .)

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🔺 09.08.1978-

 Guttenberg’s Bible, his printing press’s production…  the First book ( single one   complete edition out of 21 published   Bibles) Sold at auction for 2.4 million dollars (London).

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🔺 References: 

 * J. Gutenberg- Dictionary of the English     Language (5 the edition)

 * J. Gutenberg- Catholic Encyclopedia                                     2020

 * The work of Gutenberg- Mark Twin 1900

 * J. Gutenberg & the Printing Press – 

    Diana 2008

* portrait of Johannes Gutenberg.

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Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo : Robin Hood đŸ”ź

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Joaquin Murietta(1868) by Charles Christian Nahl

💙 Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo  🔼

(sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican-American figure that is disputed historicity.

Much has been said about the legendary Joaquin Murrieta, the Mexican guerilla leader during the California gold rush. Many of the things said about him are disputed. Myth became intertwined with fact.

               Tracing the actual birthplace of Murrieta has been difficult. There are two reported birthplaces: Quillota, Chile and Sonora, Mexico. Evidence seems to point towards the latter as the actual place of Joaquin’s birth.

Regardless, there was person by the name of Joaquin Murrieta born around 1830 whom according to John Rollin Ridge came to California sometime in the early 1850’s along with his wife to mine gold.

                Murrieta is seen as a social bandit who was the victim of ethnic discrimination. Originally an immigrant miner, Murrieta turned to a life of crime only after American miners beat him, tied him up, hanged his half-brother and ravished his wife.

After this he declared that he would henceforth “live on for revenge, and that his path should be marked with blood.” Murrieta is said to had had many companions alongside him in his crusade including the notorious “Three-Fingered Jack”.

                Murrieta was forced off his claim under the Foreign Miner’s Tax of the 1850s, which was initiated to protect Anglos from immigrant miners who might threaten their claims. This lead to a series of crime sprees committed by several groups of bandits who were former miners that had been dispossessed by their American counterparts. These bandits preyed on those who had forced them from their mines. They stole cattle and horses, robbed, and even murdered.

                Eventually, nearly every time a major crime was committed in California, Joaquin became the suspect. A feeling of terror swept over California. In May of 1853 a bounty was put on Joaquin’s head. In July a group of rangers supposedly shot and killed him along with “Three-Fingered Jack” and they cut off his head which went on display.

                The legend of Joaquin Murrieta did not subside that easily, however. For one, it could not be proven that the head was that of Murrieta. His popularity inspired a wave of literature and stories, as well as a Mexican ballad or corrido that has solidified this bandit as a historical social icon.

His life was transformed into a motion picture…   Robin Hood of El Dorado, by director William Wellmanin 1936. A morphed version of the legend that recast Murrieta as Chilean provided the inspiration for a play written by Chilean Nobelist Pablo Neruda, Splendor and Death of JoaquĂ­n Murieta (1966).

As to what happened to Joaquin’s head, it was finally placed behind the bar of the Golden Nugget Saloon in San Francisco, until the building was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake.

The head itself would become yet a part of another legend – the ghost of Joaquin. Even today, the tales continue of Joaquin’s headless ghost riding through the old goldfields, crying like a banshee – “Give me back my head. ” 

Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit JoaquĂ­n Murrieta (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Series)

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Mein Kampf : A Best Seller 🔼 “We Are Not Finished with Hitler Yet…”

• review by jotsna jari

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✍️ Mein Kampf :-

The autobiography (1925–27 ; first volume ) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.

On 18 July 1925, Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf (‘My Struggle’) was published. He wrote it in prison, where he was serving a sentence for a failed coup he attempted in 1923. 

In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his ideology and presented himself as the leader of the extreme right. He talked about his life and his youth, his ‘conversion’ to antisemitism (the hatred of Jews) and his time as a soldier in the First World War.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler also wrote a lot about the future of Germany. He wanted to expand the German territory in Eastern Europe and to throw the Jews out of Germany, since he believed they threatened the survival of the German people. Although Mein Kampf does not refer to the later mass murder of Jews during the Second World War (the Holocaust), it does show that he had already developed a hatred of Jews at this time.

He raged against the Treaty of Versailles and the reparations that Germany had to pay because of the Treaty. He did not believe in parliamentary democracy. Mein Kampf is full of racist ideas and hatred of Jews and communists.

  Mein Kampf, Volumes 1 and 2. Published                 between 1925 and 1927

Adolf Hitler’s autobiography and political manifest. Hitler dictated this book to his secretary, Rudolf Hess while imprisoned in Landsberg after the failed 1923 revolution. The first editions, published in 1925 (Band I or Volume One) and 1927 (Band II or Volume Two) were published in separate volumes. With only a few exceptions (special editions) all subsequent Third Reich editions (1930 to 1945) contained both volumes combined in one book. Very few copies of the first editions have survived. When his book first came out it was not a success, few people cared about the book in 1925 which would almost have had a much longer title. The original title Hitler chose was “Viereinhalb Jahre [des Kampfes] gegen LĂźge, Dummheit und Feigheit” (Four and a Half Years [of Struggle] against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice). His Nazi publisher, Max Amann, decided this title was too complicated and had it shortened to Mein Kampf (simply “My Struggle”). Before Hitler became Reichs Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Mein Kampf sold very slowly; but in 1933 alone 1.5 million copies were sold.

  A copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf on        exhibit at the Stutthof concentration    
    camp, near Sztutowo, Poland.

🔺 Points :-

1)   A rare, personally signed copy of German dictator Adolf Hitler’s

autobiography Mein Kampf has been sold for USD 13,000 at an auction in the US.

The front flyleaf of the book is boldly inscribed and signed by Hitler as “Only in battle will the noble man survive! Adolf Hitler on 18/August 1930”.

2)   Mein Kampf is an evil book, but it remains necessary reading for those who seek to understand the Holocaust, for students of totalitarian psychology and for all who care to safeguard democracy. 

3)   George Orwell’s Review of ‘Mein Kampf’ :- 

Indeed, Hitler’s great virtue, as Orwell sees it, is the absolute rigidity of his mind, so that his world-view, such as it was, ‘doesn’t develop’. “It is the fixed vision of a monomaniac and not likely to be much affected by the temporary manoeuvres of power politics”.  

If he (Hitler) was killing a mouse he would know how to make it look like a dragon’.

 4)  Original RARE GERMAN RARE 1937   

   WEDDING EDITION OF ADOLF HITLERS

   â€œMEIN KAMPF” Certified

In 1935, the Eher publishing house presented Hitler with the idea of giving a specially printed edition of Mein Kampf to every newly wed couple on the day of their wedding. This edition was published with a leather spine and would contain an extra presentation page in the front with blanks for the names of bride and groom and the signature of the mayor of the city, town or village. 

5)   Upon Germany’s defeat and Hitler’s suicide in 1945 Mein Kampf was already considered “the most dangerous book in the world.” Eberhard Jäckel, one of the leading German historians on Hitler’s Germany, expressed the significance of Mein Kampf very succinctly when he wrote that “rarely in history, if indeed ever, would a ruler even before he seized power, reveal in writing what he was about to carry out, as Hitler had done.”

6)   First sentence in Mein Kampf :-

For a racially pure people which is conscious of its blood  can never be enslaved by the jew. In this world he will forever be master over bastards & bastards alone.

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Allegedly the last picture of Adolf Hitler before he committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Hitler (right) and his adjutant Julius Schaub looking at the ruins of the Reich chancellery, April 28, 1945.

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