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| Topic of the program |
Dr. Prof. Yashpaul Kalra had been invited on Saturday afternoon, 17 August, 2013 with reverence and regard from the desk of Alumni Association, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Alumni Association organized this program with reference to literature and language.
There was a rigorous response from the crazy audience of literature being collective in a good number. Program was looking comely and enthusiastic with the presence of Dr. Dilip Barad, Head of Department of English, the poet Dr. Vinod Joshi, Head of the Department of Gujarati, Dr. M.B. Gaijan, Head of the Department of English, Samaldas Arts College, Alumni members like Miss. Heenaba Zala, current visiting faculty of the department, Siddharth Desai, Mahesh Dholiya, Hemant Vyas, former students and freshmen of the department.
The program was organized with the efforts of Alumni and remained successful by Kalra sir’s spontaneous speech and lecture on his respective subject “Influence of Surrounding Atmosphere – Inspiration to Poetic Creation”. Basically, Dr. Yashpaul Kalra is a retired professor from Samaldas Arts College. Dr. M.B. Gaijan who is the Head of English at Samaldas Arts College, is a student of Dr. Kalra. He has a very heavyweight of life experience from place to place, from college to college and finally he has been settled in Bhavnagar as a silent poet but writing poems violently in the sense, writing poems in torrent. His book of a collection of poems ‘Impressions’ is an evidence of judging him as the most popular Scholar Gipsy of literature in English means there is no any station of literature he is not acquainted with.
Heenaba was a Sarathi of the program. Though she arranged the session hastily, she could bring no any problem in encoring. Dr. Gaijan sir grabbed an opportunity of speaking about Dr. Kalra sir and his career as a whole. All the professors were welcomed with floral welcome as well as verbal welcome.
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| Dr. M.B. Gaijan, introducing and honoring his teacher Dr. Kalra |
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| Miss. Heenaba Zala, encoring the program |
Dr. Kalra has seen the casual topics of day-to-day life. Animals, creatures, birds and human being, means four worlds of Archetypal Criticism, were imprisoned in his poems and locked permanently in the poems. He talked on why he had selected these subject matters and themes. His language caught listeners’ thoughts and attention. There was a silent noise among the audience. How he employed his imagery and real motives, living and non-living objects was a mystery. His interaction with the listeners was simply impressive. It was just to imagine listening to the poet about his own creation. So the poet, critic, creator was appreciating his own crux of his surrounding atmosphere. Deepti, a current student of the department asked a question of poetic creation and persona, a mismatch in poetry according to T.S. Eliot.
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| Dr. Yashpaul Kalra, sharing his ideas and fancies... |
But Dr. Kalra sir replied with the necessity of surrounding stimuli for creating a poetry is a must. That means a surrounding atmosphere is a part and parcel of writing poetry. Heenaba called Dr. Vinod sir to enliven and deepen this subject. Vinod sir’s Gujarati Shaily was charming and heart-touching to attract the audience. Nirvayaktikaran and relation with poetic creation was very attentive to know from his Abhivyakti. In a nutshell, the session had been remained live and awesome for two hours.
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| Dr. Vinod Joshi, giving his commentary on Nirvayktikaran (Depersonalization) |
That was a lecture with two experienced poets of Bhavnagar. Siddharth Desai had lost and fumbled for words for Dr. Kalra’s performance and live nature. He gave a valedictory speech and showed a gratitude to them. Barad sir and Vinod sir were given ‘Impressions’ a book by Dr. Kalra sir as a part of a bouquet.
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| Mr. Siddharth Desai, giving valedictory speech |
