Friday, 11 March 2016


Here is my response about Deconstruction

       Deconstruction is a form of philosophical and literary analysis derived from Jacques Derrida. Deconstruction is actually a way of reading any text and thereby exposing the instability of meaning which the text tries to cover up. Deconstruction is a theory and Practice of  reading which question claims to undermine or  subvert the assumption that the system of language  provide space that are adequate to establish the Boundaries , the coherence or unity , and the determine the meaning of literary text .

For example ;

From the  Sujoy Ghosh’s  Short Film   AHALYA 

  AHALYA as a character of history who was waiting for redemption for her sins through the hands of Lord Ram morphs into a new identity through the hands of Sujoy Ghosh, an identity that is shot through and through with seduction, and the concomitant dangers of falling into the trap of lust. It underlines the fact that while it always is tempting to travel the path of seduction, the pitfalls also have to be factored in.


  Through AHALYA, Sujoy Ghosh perhaps wishes to show mirror to the society about the way the physical relationships are happening and how the paradigms have changed from the original AHALYA to the modern AHALYA- the original AHALYA being turned into stone after having fallen for lust and waiting for redemption at the hands of Lord Ram, while the modern AHALYA continues to revel in lust and converts the encounters into stone, but with a difference - there is no Lord Ram for redemption.