[Reader-list] Abstract of Presentation on Beeti Vibhavri Jaag Ri : Dilli ke Cityscape mein Dik wa Kaal

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Abstract of Presentation on 
Beeti Vibhavri Jaag Ri : Dilli ke Cityscape mein Dik wa Kaal
By
(Dr) VIJENDER SINGH CHAUHAN

Duration - 20 Minutes
Media	   - It will be a video presentation after a brief theoretical
introduction.
Medium - Hindi

यह देखो यादों का एक चौराहा
 लेकिन रुको 
इस रास्‍ते से उस पर न दौड़ो
किसी और याद से जा टकराओगे 
और याद का याद से टकराना 
दुर्घटना भर नहीं है 
यह बिग-बैंग है
यहीं से शुरु हुआ 
ब्रह्मांड और समय 

माफ करना आंइस्‍टीन 
तुम्‍हें कविता में घसीटना 
अच्‍छा तो नहीं लगता/पर 
मुझे तुम ही सबसे विश्‍वसनीय 
गवाह दीख पड़ते हो 
बताओ इन्‍हें कि तुम 'याद' भर हो 
हर सत्‍य 'याद' भर है 
और यह शहर है यादों का जखीरा 


This work is a literary construct of pre-dawn Delhi as city. Its not
'real' Delhi nor it is 'beautiful' Delhi. It is imagined reality of
'dark' Delhi. A dead migrant from Purvanchal narrates it from
mortuary.  Images of memory, imagination, dreams and experiences in
Delhi' cityscape are not essentially in plane and straight geometry.
From the perspective of time Delhi's cityscape is an inverted pyramid
whose present weighs heavily on its past.

Methodology includes poetic observations and documentation of pre-dawn
Delhi. Images, Imagination, Memory and Experiences were major tools
used. Interviews of migrants, locals and visitors were conducted.
Touch, smell and sounds of city were also included in the works though
with not much success.