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Sairandhri by Vinod Joshi

Introduction :



In gujarati literature there are many poets and authors. Vinod Joshi is a famous Gujarati poet and writer. His notable works are "Parant",  "Shikhandi"  "Tundil-tundika", and many other. He won many awards. His recent notable work is "Sairandhri". He write this work in Australia. For creating this poem he think a lot and suddenly in Australia he started writing. He completed this poem in Australia. So that we can say that

     ' India's Sairandhri born in Australia'

his poem based on the character of Draupadi from Mahabharata. This poem talk about very apt point which we all are facing in our society that is Lost Identity. In this poem he represents one virat Parva from Mahabharata and he had taken one incident. But he just observed it and write his own views or thing. Sairandhri has no power to show her identity. She has five Pandhava then even she is not able to show her own identity. So poet created this kind of chaos in the poem. This poem is very difficult to understand. So,
   
     'Sairandhri' is a poem of lost identity

The poem start with one beautiful prayer,

                "વીજડીયુ વેડી લેખણ કીઘી,
                  સરસવતી માતા કાગળ નો
                    ખાલી ખુણો અાપજો"

Language is applied on us. He uses both the language Sanskrit and Gujarati.Karna is her first choice and she loves him. Poet's Sairandhri loves Karana. We can see the imagination of the poet that is not in Mahabharata. Sairandhri was the Maid of Shudharshna. She lived with five Pandava but she can not talk or show herself. She has to hide herself for one year. And we all are do this in our life. In the poem, I found Following Two Points. 


Lost identity :

We all have our own dual personality. This is the reality of the world that for some reason we change our reality or our real personality and we lost our real identity or personality. This is like the novel Dr Jeklly and Mr.hyde. like he had two personalities one is good or one is bad. This is not so much important but important is our lost identity. We always trying to hide something from ourselves as well as from others. Sometimes we do this for some good thing. Like in this beautiful poem we can see this clearly.


Womans Identity :

Sairandhri had struggled a lot. Because she cannot talk about herself with anyone. She was not able to share anything with anyone. When she was in Dropadi's rip she had Krishna who help her when she faces problems and she has five pandhava to help. But in this rip she is alone. Poets intention is very clear in this beautiful poem that women has to fight and women can. Woman has power to control the things. She can make her own decisions.The poem is good example of rewriting of Myth.


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