Parallel Literature in Maithili and Videha Maithili Literature Movement
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Parallel Literature in Maithili and Videha Maithili Literature Movement
Pseudo-criticism in Maithili and the case of Kamalananda Jha
The title of Kamalanand Jha's book "Maithili Novel: Time, Society and Questions" (2021) is misleading. It is a collection of some syndicated so-called critical articles on some of his caste novelists. The 263-page book can only be sold in hardbound to libraries where it will rot. Here is a correction, a non-caste writer's work, i.e., Subhash Chandra Yadav's novel 'Gulo', has been dealt with by him in two lines, of course without reading it. I am presenting those two lines here for your entertainment. You must have read Gulo, if you haven't already, read it first because then you will have a more entertaining experience. Gulo is available on Videha Archive with the permission of Subhash Chandra Yadav at this link http://videha.co.in/pothi.htm.
"The weakness of the novel is the author's political bias. The partisanship towards a particular politics does not do justice to the work."
In a novel where politics is not remotely involved, there is no question of 'political bias and partisanship of a particular politics'. Dhumketu and Yatri used political bias or partisanship. Subhash Chandra Yadav's 'Vote' which came out in 2022 and is available with permission of Subhash Chandra Yadav on Videha Archive at this link http://videha.co.in/pothi.htm, is on politics but even there Subhashji's enchanting style obviates the need of any political bias... Read my book 'Nit Naval Subhash Chandra Yadav' which is available at this link http://videha.co.in/pothi.htm. On the other hand, Mr Kamlanand Jha sounds like a spokesperson of some political party or a casteist organisation rather than a literary critic. Kamalananda Jha's Brahministic bias against Subhash Chandra Yadav is an alarm bell. The parallel stream is conscious of how Kamalananda Jha takes the leftist stance to promote Brahminism and wants to sacrifice social justice. In his biodata, he proudly mentions the Maithili translation assignment bestowed on him by the Sahitya Akademi, and this assignment was allotted to him not on account of merit but solely on the ground of his caste title and in lieu of these deeds. For people like him, Maithili-related work is merely a line in their curriculum vitae, but it is a question of life and death for the people of the parallel stream. Why did I call Kamalananda Jha a pseudo-critic? Because he is a pseudo-critic. He writes: "After nearly a hundred years of journey, Gaurinath is credited with writing a dignified novel on the dreams, struggles and ironies of inter-caste marriage. So, did Kamalananda Jha take away this credit from Sushil? Is this the culmination of the arrogance of his Brahministic upbringing ("Through my whims and fancies I can place some literature on top and can downgrade some to the bottom") or is this the evidence of his lack of study? Let me take you away from the selfish world of Kamalananda Jha, away from deception and disguise to the sincere world of Sushil's magical literature. Welcome to the world of Sushil's literature. Here is Sushil's 'Gambali' (1982) which is now available in the Videha Archive at the link http://videha.co.in/pothi.htm. In the first line of this novel, even before the novel begins, Sushil writes about the novel 'Gambali': "In support of widow marriage and inter-caste marriage" and here begins the novel. The death of a village woman and then the trouble ensues, who will cremate this village woman? Brahmin community or Yadav community of the village? Dinesh Kumar Mishra's 'Dui Patan Ke Bich Me' is a historical biography of the Kosi River. He has also written historical biographies of other rivers of Mithila like 'Bandini Mahananda,' 'Bagmati Ki Sadgati!', 'Dui Patan Ke Bich Me... (Story of the Kosi River)', Na Ghat Na Ghar, Kamla River, 'Bhutahi River and Technical Herbalism', The Kamla River and People on Collision Course, Bhutahi Balan- Story of a Ghost River and Engineering Witchcraft, Refugees of the Kosi Embankments. Pankaj Jha Parashar, a member of the Maithili Advisory Committee of the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi has plagiarised paragraph after paragraph from his books and has published a novel in Maithili in his name, which pseudo-critic Kamalananda Jha mentions as research of this thief author Pankaj Jha Parashar! Let me clarify here that both the thief writer and the pseudo-critic are in the Hindi department of Aligarh Muslim University. This research is done by Dinesh Kumar Mishra, who is a graduate of IIT, Kharagpur in Civil Engineering (in 1968) and M. Tech in Structural Engineering (in 1970) and is qualified for that research. In Hindi, the cut-off for admission is the lowest across universities, otherwise, Kamalananda Jha would have known that this research could be done by a civil engineer only. The Hindi original and Maithili screenshots are attached below. Dinesh Kumar Mishra is not from Mithila, but he has authored the story of all the streams of Mithila. We are grateful to him, and the people of Mithila will remain indebted to him for this. This thief writer Pankaj Jha Parashar is a habitual offender. More than a decade ago he found a saviour in Mr Taranand Viyogi who wrote that he (thief writer Pankaj Jha Parashar) gets influenced involuntarily stole others' material in his works. Now he has found another saviour in Kamalananda Jha. The parallel stream is conscious of how Kamalananda Jha takes the leftist side to promote Brahminism and wants to sacrifice social justice. Communism has suffered a lot from people who became communists to escape the land ceiling.
All books by Dinesh Kumar Mishra are now available in the Videha Archive with his permission:
Let us recall here that when Bill Gates was asked whether he was delaying the introduction of the X-Box in India for fear of piracy. His answer was Microsoft never delays the launch of products for fear of piracy. We will continue enriching Videha Archive (http://www.videha.co.in/archive.htm ), despite such risks because not all the fish in the pond rot by some rotten fish in parallel streams. The fishermen here have been and will continue to remove such rotten fish.
The final blow to syndicated pseudo-literary criticism in Maithili.
Original Dinesh Kumar Mishra (Dui Patan Ke Beech Me... 2006): It is noteworthy that between 1923 and 1946, 5,10,000 people died of malaria, 2,10,000 from Kala Azar, 60,000 of Cholera and 3,000 of smallpox in the Kosi region (783,000 total deaths).
Thief Pankaj Jha Parashar (Member of Maithili Advisory Committee of Sahitya Akademi, Delhi) [Jalpranthar 2017 (p. 103)]:
Original Dinesh Kumar Mishra (Dui Patan Ke Beech Me... 2006): On the Kosi River in Bihar, India, a dam was built by King Laxman II in the 12th century and for this, he received the title of 'Bir' from the people and the embankment of the river was called 'Bir Dam' The remains of this embankment are still visible in Supaul district, about 5 km south of Bhim Nagar. Dr Francis Buchanan (1810-11) speculated that the dam must have been an outer wall built to protect a fort as it stretched over a distance of 32 kilometres from Tilyuga to its confluence on the western bank of the Dhaus river. Dr W.W. Hunter (1877) did not agree with Buchanan's contention that the dam was the protective wall of a fort. Quoting locals, Hunter believed that most people did not consider it a fortress wall and according to him it was something else but he was not in a position to say anything. Yet the common impression is that it must have been an embankment built along the Kosi River to prevent the river's current from sliding westwards. People also said that it seemed that the construction of the embankment had suddenly stopped.
The pseudo-critic Kamalananda Jha's saviour of the habitual offender thief Pankaj Jha Parashar quoted the plagiarised work as follows: (Maithili Novel, Time, Society and Questions pp. 257-258):
Thief Pankaj Jha Parashar (Member of Maithili Advisory Committee of Sahitya Akademi, Delhi) [Jalpranthar 2017 (p. 31)]:
Original Dinesh Kumar Mishra (Dui Patan Ke Beech Me... 2006): A glimpse of the horrors of the Kosi River can be seen in the event when the army of Feroz Shah Tughlaq returned to Delhi from Bengal. It is said that when the troops of the Sultan reached the banks of the Kosi, they saw that on the other side of the river, the troops of Haji Shamsuddin Ilyas were waiting, ready for a battle. This was the same Haji Shamsuddin who founded the cities of Hajipur and Samastipur. Feroze's troops were stranded on the banks of the Kosi somewhere around Kursela. The speed of the river was preventing them from moving forward. It was finally decided to proceed northward along the river and to locate the water where it was navigable. The troops of the Sultan went up about a hundred kos and crossed the river near Ziaran, situated at the same place where the river descended from the mountains into the plains. The river was thin, but the flow was so fast that heavy stones weighing five hundred manas were floating like straws in the river. On either side of the river where it was found possible to cross it the Sultan erected a row of elephants, and ropes were hung in the bottom row so that if a man loses control he could be rescued with the help of these ropes. Shamsuddin never thought that Sultan's troops would be able to cross the Kosi and when he came to know that Sultan's troops had managed to cross the Kosi, he fled.
Thief Pankaj Jha Parashar (Member of Maithili Advisory Committee of Sahitya Akademi, Delhi) [Jalpranthar 2017 (p. 105)]:
(More screenshots will be updated at this link http://www.videha.co.in/investigation.htm soon.)
