Sunday Reading : Sairandri by Vinod Joshi

Vinod Joshi is a famous postmodern Gujarati poet, writer and critic from Gujarat, India. Shikhandi is his notable work. Shikhandi is a long narrative poem based on Shikhandi a character from the ‘Mahabharata’. He also write Geet,  sonnet, long narrative poems in metres.  He achieved many notable awards like Kavishwar Dalpatram award (2013), Sathiya Gaurav Puraskar (2015), Narsinh Mehta award (2018) and Kalapi Award (2018).

 Poem “Sairandri” punlished in 2018. This poem based on the Mahabharta’s Viratparv’s numerator. In this poem Sairandri’s original form is Agniknya. This poem full written on female character not a single character of men. Full poem on one female character.

 Poem of lost identity

Sairandri the character of the poem based on the a women lived without her identity. And the women is the Draupadi and the poem  on the character of Draupadi. Draupadi as a Sairandri.  She hide identity from the people. During agatvas she live with the pandvas in mahel. She never revealed herself with people. We can say the poem concept of the lost of the identity. She created for the maharani of the Hastinapur but she live as a dasi of the queen. Draupadi hide her identity as a Draupadi and she live as a Sairandri. She lost her identity for all this thing. She live a life in a room. In this poem we see the language of the poet. Poet come from the rural area so he use some of the world in that language and Sanskrit language.