[Reader-list] "city smelt" (shahar ki ghrana nirmiti) &"city touched"(Shahar ki sparsh nirmiti

[vijender chauhan]

Hi All,

Last  week I thought of experimenting a bit. I wasn't very sure of its 
success (I wasn't and still I am not, of the whole exercise either) simply 
because in this part I didn't have any concrete idea or hypothesis or 
anything except that city must be expressing itself in other ways then mere 
audio-visual. So  I thought of finding out the "city smelt" ( shahar ki 
ghrana nirmiti) and "city touched" (Shahar ki sparsh nirmiti) I did quite 
some not so sensible things like assuming city is what roads are hence there 
texture is of coarse, coarse, I touched it with my palm all spread over it. 
Similarly feeling over filled sanitary landfill at Azadpur bypass isn't 
pleasant by any mean.
Shahar ki Ghran nirmiti:
Shahr ki koi ek gandh hoti hai ise sahsa sweekar karna kathin hai, yeh 
isliye bhi hai ki shahar kisi bhi sandarbh mein ek (monolithic) saranchna 
nahin hai atah uski ek gandh (ya awaz, ya drishya...) ki apeksha karana 
sarthak nahin hai. Tathapi zid hi sahi par mujhe lagta hai ki shahar ki koi 
gandh to hai jo isi shahr ki hai. yadi sahityik sandarbh se khojein to apni 
dilli ke sath apni pehchan jodne wale lekhakon mein se ek "krisna baldev 
vaid" apne charchit aur vivadit upanyas "vimal urf jaen to jaen kahan" mein 
jis gandh ko is shahr ki gandh kehtein hai vah hai (vi) mal ki gandh. bypass 
ke kachrein ki gandh shahr bhar ke kachrei ki gandh ka nichor hai par mein 
sweekar nahin kar paya ki shahar kewal yeh kachra hai ya phir pushpa, itra 
vagaraih.... Apne pryaog mein maine bypass ke alava GTK Industrial area, now 
relandscaped Jawahar Gulab Vatika at DU, Idgah Road (Please note slaughter 
house is located here..) ko ab tak liya hai. swabhavik hai ki itne sthal 
prayapta nahin hai par hum sabi ki seenmaen hai. Tay yah bhi kiya hai ki 
inke varnan ke liye kuchh aur karna sambhav nahin hai atah pathya yani text 
ke madhyam se hi varnan kiya jayega.
Shahr ki Sparsh Nirmiti:
What I thought in this context is simple. Spread my palm on the structure I 
am calling cityscape landmarks. so I did it with roads, buildings, railings 
along road and also along one bridge. Touching city is slightly different 
then expected. I thought touch will primarily be touch of the structure and 
imagination will have to work hard to reach the touch of the city, that was 
not the case! yes imagination did work but not that hard. Believe me! city 
does vibrate (actually my word is 'spandan' (beats)) and this spandan says a 
lot about the buzzing city. Still working to decipher what it is.

I did get quite a few replies through list as well directly to my mail box. 
Thanks a lot to all of you. Could not reply some of these individually, 
especially I will mention sadan. I could not answer because I am still 
working to sort out the issues Sadan raised.
Thanks you all.
Vijender

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