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GOOD BYE PARTY FOR MISS PUSHPA T.S.

BY NISSIM ESEKIEL

ABOUT NISSIM EZEKIEL Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an

Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English.He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his Poetry collection, "Latter-Day Psalms", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.[2] Ezekiel is universally recognized and appreciated as being one of the most notable and accomplished Indian English language poets of the 20th century, applauded for his subtle, restrained and well crafted diction, dealing with common and mundane themes in a manner that manifests both cognitive profundity, as well as an unsentimental, realistic sensibility, that has been influential on the course of succeeding Indian English poetry. Ezekiel enriched and established Indian English language poetry through his modernist innovations and techniques, which enlarged Indian English literature, moving it beyond purely spiritual and orientalist themes, to include a wider range of concerns and interests, including mundane familial events, individual angst and skeptical societal introspection.

•Friends,•our dear sister• is departing for foreign• in two three days•,and• we are meeting today•to wish her bon voyage.• You are all knowing, friends,• What sweetness is in Miss Pushpa•.I don't mean only external sweetness• but internal sweetness.• Miss Pushpa is smiling and smiling• even for no reason but simply because• she is feeling.• Miss Pushpa is coming•from very high family. •Her father was renowned advocate• in Bulsar or Surat,• I am not remembering now which place.

•Surat? Ah, yes,•once only I stayed in Surat•with family members•of my uncle's very old friend-•his wife was cooking nicely…•that was long time ago.• Coming back to Miss Pushpa•she is most popular lady• with men also and ladies also.• Whenever I asked her to do anything,•she was saying, 'Just now only•I will do it.' That is showing•good spirit. I am always• appreciating the good spirit.• Pushpa Miss is never saying no.•Whatever I or anybody is asking•she is always saying yes•,and today she is going •to improve her prospect• and we are wishing her bon voyage.•Now I ask other speakers to speak•and afterwards Miss Pushpa•will do summing up. Nissim Ezekiel

Notes:1.2: dear sister: addressing a chief guest or speaker as “dear” or ‘beloved’ sister, brother, professor etc., is very common in India.1.3: departing for foreign Note the Indian use of ‘foreign’ as noun and departing in the sense of going or leaving.1.4: two thru days: translation of a parallel vernacular expression.1.6: we are meeting today: This is one of the many instances of the use of the progressive for the simple present in the poem. The Indian predilection for the use of the progressive tense is well-known. Pick out all the other expressions of this kind in the advocate”.

poem.1.10-11: Note the way in which the speaker chooses to convey that Pushpa is not only a woman of pleasant exterior but also of many sweet qualities of head and heart1.12- 13: All that is meant is that Pushpa always puts on a smiling face which shows that she is emotional by nature.1.15- 19: Though these words are meant to be complimentary, they can be hurting too to Miss Pushpa, for the speaker’s words sound empty as he is not quite sure of her actual parental background and makes vague references. Note the absence of the indefinite article in “very high family” and in “re nowned

1.20: Surat? Ah yes: obviously someone has reminded the speaker that it is Surat.22: family members: ‘family members’,

‘family friend’ ‘family matter’ etc., are common Indianisms

.11. 22-25: In India one does not hesitate to thrust oneself as a guest on anyone, however distant a relative of oneself or one’s friend’s friend!

1.24-25: Look at the ambiguity and the irony resulting from the expression ‘that was long time ago’.

1.27- 28: Popular lady with men also, and ladies also: an unusual collocation, for ‘men and ladies’ do not collocate well.

1. 30: Just now only I will do it: a typical Indian-English expres sion. Note the numerous uses of the progressive tense in the lines that

follow.1. 34: Pushpa Miss: This reversal of the word order is typical of the Indian speech habit. This is how most students in India refer to their lady teachers1. 40-42: The lines mean that Miss Pushpa will reply to the felicitations offered to her

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