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Part 10 · VIDEHA MITHILA MAITHILI DISCUSSION CRITICISM SERIES PART 10
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  1. 0:16–0:19विदेहा परज़ेंच भी शलत तो आश्छ।
  2. 0:19–0:23माइदली श्फर्स्ट ख्लामबदवारनिस च्फर्ष्ड़श श्विप्ठ्ट्ट,
  3. 0:23–0:29विदेहा विदेहा विदेहा विदेहा विप्ट्टट श्विप्ट्ट श्विप्ट्ट,
  4. 0:29–0:32An English language radio adaptation.
  5. 0:32–0:45Come, come.
  6. 0:45–0:48Come and watch this Crossroads play, this street play.
  7. 0:48–0:52Put your phones down for a moment, lift your eyes.
  8. 0:52–0:55The sky that is changing is your own sky.
  9. 0:55–1:05Hey, what are all of you saying?
  10. 1:05–1:07What is this?
  11. 1:07–1:10Everyone, gather round.
  12. 1:10–1:12Form a circle.
  13. 1:12–1:15Stand in a ring for this Mathili Crossroads play.
  14. 1:15–1:18It will be a powerful play.
  15. 1:18–1:21Come on, come on.
  16. 1:21–1:22Let them put on their mathily play.
  17. 1:22–1:26We're watching a play put food on your plate.
  18. 1:26–1:28No, sister.
  19. 1:28–1:33This play is for the hungry, hunger of the stomach, hunger of the mind, hunger for language,
  20. 1:33–1:35and hunger for clean air.
  21. 1:35–1:40When the air falls ill, even the stomach feels empty.
  22. 1:40–1:41True enough.
  23. 1:41–1:43Then let us go and watch.
  24. 1:43–1:49Come, come! Today there will be a play for children, adolescents, young people, adults
  25. 1:49–1:54and the elderly, a play for women and men, a play for birds and tiny birds, for trees
  26. 1:54–2:00and plants, for air and wind, a play for the sun, moon and stars, for the visible and invisible,
  27. 2:00–2:05for the nation, for sleep and dreams. And if, while watching, you begin to think, then
  28. 2:05–2:08this will also become a play for the earth.
  29. 2:08–2:12Oh, just tell us plainly who this play is not for.
  30. 2:12–2:15Why are you making such grand speeches?
  31. 2:15–2:18Have I left anyone out?
  32. 2:18–2:22There you are. I have to say that too.
  33. 2:22–2:27Now begin the spectacle and show us how far this play reaches.
  34. 2:27–2:30Very well. Let us begin.
  35. 2:30–2:40I am a lamb. I am a bird.
  36. 2:40–2:43No, a firefly.
  37. 2:43–2:50I am a monster. I am a tiny bird. Ha ha! A firefly.
  38. 2:51–2:57I am Jayant. I am a tree. I am a pala. I am a tree. Ha ha!
  39. 2:58–3:01I am VJ. I am the sun and the stars.
  40. 3:02–3:08I am Vajaya. I am the moon, Chanda. Hee hee.
  41. 3:08–3:16I am a ghost, a spirit, a demon.
  42. 3:16–3:23I am a dream that is imagination.
  43. 3:23–3:28I, I, I.
  44. 3:28–3:30What is your work?
  45. 3:30–3:31What is your work?
  46. 3:31–3:35Give us any task and see how well we do it.
  47. 3:35–3:39But the work of the world will stay together.
  48. 3:39–3:47Bird and tiny bird, both of you come forward and become fireflies.
  49. 3:47–3:57Where are you, Asta?
  50. 3:57–4:00I have seen the signal.
  51. 4:00–4:03I was like the bat in the thicket.
  52. 4:03–4:06Yes, it is done.
  53. 4:06–4:09What has happened?
  54. 4:09–4:17Did you not see how we found each other through light without shouting, without smoke, without fire?
  55. 4:17–4:23When I was human, I mean, before I die, I used to experiment with this a great deal.
  56. 4:23–4:27What do you say, Ramvati?
  57. 4:27–4:36You did experiment, but so much heat came with the light.
  58. 4:36–4:40The stifling heat could kill a person.
  59. 4:40–4:45If there is light, heat is bound to come out.
  60. 4:45–4:54Neclogy, out of every 16 parts of energy, you produced 15 parts of heat and only one part of light.
  61. 4:54–5:01You fancied yourself a great scientist. The light did come, but the stifling heat could kill.
  62. 5:01–5:05Only when energy is saved can the earth be saved.
  63. 5:05–5:09You are imagination, after all.
  64. 5:09–5:13That is why, after dying, you became imagination.
  65. 5:13–5:19And that is why you became a ghost, a spiret, a demon.
  66. 5:19–5:26Then you tell us whether light can be obtained without heat.
  67. 5:26–5:30No, it is not possible.
  68. 5:30–5:33It is possible, Vijay.
  69. 5:33–5:39Vijaya has arrived. Ask her whether she has any light of her own.
  70. 5:39–5:47No, she does not. Yet the moonlight she scatters at night certainly feels cool.
  71. 5:47–5:55Ha! Imagination! Keep saying whatever comes into your head, keep saying it.
  72. 5:55–6:05Had you listened to me while you were alive and used your imagination you could have made light without stifling heat cool light.
  73. 6:05–6:14Listen, O'Aim and Osstha, light without stifling heat. Now you two tell her that light without heat is impossible.
  74. 6:14–6:19If light gave off heat, five flies would die.
  75. 6:19–6:23Then how are the two of you alive?
  76. 6:23–6:25What do you mean?
  77. 6:25–6:28Our light is cool.
  78. 6:28–6:32Light comes from my tail, cool light.
  79. 6:32–6:36This is not a game, it is the science of the body.
  80. 6:36–6:38It cools the heart.
  81. 6:38–6:42It sends a signal and helps us find one another.
  82. 6:42–6:45Light that brings companions together is good,
  83. 6:45–6:48light that scorches the earth is incomplete.
  84. 6:48–6:56Oh, I kept gazing at the moon over distant lands at night, and went on imagining.
  85. 6:56–7:02But you, Neclo, why could we not see the fireflies wandering at night?
  86. 7:02–7:08The science of a small creature shone before us long before it appeared in a great book.
  87. 7:08–7:11I am a failed scientist.
  88. 7:11–7:15I wander as a demon, burning in the energy of light.
  89. 7:15–7:20Oh imagination, I could not imagine, otherwise, I would have become a firefly.
  90. 7:22–7:27Had you fulfilled that dream of mine, I too would have become a firefly.
  91. 7:28–7:31So many trees and forests would not have been cut.
  92. 7:32–7:34Look how far the forest has receded.
  93. 7:35–7:41As trees diminish, shade diminishes, water diminishes, and songs diminish.
  94. 7:41–7:49We have been left alone, as lonely as the sun, stars and moon, but the sun and moon can
  95. 7:49–7:50shine from far away.
  96. 7:50–7:56When a tree is left alone, the village dries up.
  97. 7:56–7:58We have been left all alone.
  98. 7:58–8:02In a few days we shall be gone.
  99. 8:02–8:03Seems so.
  100. 8:03–8:10We shall become ghosts, spirits and demons.
  101. 8:10–8:11Why?
  102. 8:11–8:15How did you come to this condition?
  103. 8:15–8:17Because of you.
  104. 8:17–8:20Because of you alone.
  105. 8:20–8:23What have I done now?
  106. 8:23–8:25You cut us down to make paper.
  107. 8:25–8:31You cut us down for chairs, doors, decorations, and single use things that are thrown away.
  108. 8:31–8:34You cut us down to build houses.
  109. 8:34–8:37But those things were necessary.
  110. 8:37–8:40They had to be made, did they not?
  111. 8:40–8:43Then why did you not plant us again?
  112. 8:43–8:45Why did you not imagine?
  113. 8:45–8:47Tell us.
  114. 8:47–8:50Why did you not imagine?
  115. 8:50–8:53Imagine what?
  116. 8:53–9:00Imagine how many trees you would cut and how many times that number you would plant.
  117. 9:00–9:03But I did plant trees.
  118. 9:03–9:06You planted eucalyptus.
  119. 9:06–9:08You planted foreign trees.
  120. 9:08–9:10They drank all the blood.
  121. 9:10–9:17No, no all the water from the soil planting a tree that does not understand the soil's thirst does not make a forest
  122. 9:18–9:20Do not put all the blame on me
  123. 9:21–9:23Do you not use energy to I?
  124. 9:23–9:25Am a scientist. I
  125. 9:26–9:28understand all of this
  126. 9:28–9:33But if knowledge is not put into practice science itself remains incomplete
  127. 9:36–9:41We burn oxygen to make a food
  128. 9:41–9:49food and burn it as our labor demands. In the winter months we keep ourselves warm, yet we
  129. 9:49–10:04do not heat the whole world. I know all of that, but we produce only a little heat.
  130. 10:04–10:11And even that is for all of you. For us? How? How?
  131. 10:11–10:17We keep the lotus flower warm so that your hands do not freeze when you pluck it in winter.
  132. 10:17–10:19Sector spends its heat with restraint.
  133. 10:19–10:21Human beings spend it without measure.
  134. 10:21–10:26Then, when someone cuts you, why do you not defend yourselves?
  135. 10:26–10:31Imagine, think, think.
  136. 10:31–10:33We do.
  137. 10:33–10:36We do as much as we can.
  138. 10:36–10:39We show you thorns and drive you away.
  139. 10:39–10:43We feed you fruit and drive hunger away.
  140. 10:43–10:46Pluck our flowers and carry them home.
  141. 10:46–10:55Offer them to your gods and ancestors.
  142. 10:55–10:58We tempt you with fruit and flowers.
  143. 10:58–10:59We give you shade.
  144. 10:59–11:01We give you breath.
  145. 11:01–11:05We frighten you with thorns, but an axe is not afraid of thorns.
  146. 11:05–11:09Even then, you refuse to stop.
  147. 11:09–11:13Imagine, think, think.
  148. 11:13–11:21Oh, imagination, what you told me, that we must plant many times the number of trees we cut, please tell them that too.
  149. 11:21–11:27Their feet are rooted in the soil. How can they do that?
  150. 11:27–11:35But seeds, pollen, wind, water, birds and animals can all become their feet.
  151. 11:35–11:39Imagination. Think. Think.
  152. 11:39–11:45A seed catches in a buffalo's hair and travels with it far from here.
  153. 11:45–11:49The buffalo shakes. The seed drops there.
  154. 11:49–11:51With rooted feet we journey there.
  155. 11:54–11:56We make tiny hook like barbs on a seed,
  156. 11:57–12:00so that it catches in an animal's coat and travels far.
  157. 12:00–12:03This is our journey without a ticket, without smoke.
  158. 12:04–12:06Far away the seed gives birth to a new tree.
  159. 12:08–12:10A butterfly carries pollen far away.
  160. 12:11–12:13With that pollen it fertilizes another tree,
  161. 12:14–12:15in a distant land.
  162. 12:16–12:18Imagination.
  163. 12:18–12:25Jaiyant, now I feel that we shall disappear. What will happen in a country whose scientists
  164. 12:25–12:30do not imagine, in a village whose children do not count its trees?
  165. 12:30–12:36Apalla, there the imagined treeless future becomes reality. But if the children count
  166. 12:36–12:41the seeds today, the future can still be rewritten.
  167. 12:41–12:42As it has been here.
  168. 12:42–12:52Cut our roots and we shall turn to ash. Take all our flowers and leaves. All the children are dead.
  169. 12:52–13:09Our roots and we shall we shall turn to ash. Take all our flowers.
  170. 13:09–13:34I shall protect the firefly's cool light. I shall also protect the darkness of night, so that the stars remain visible.
  171. 13:34–13:38I shall plant more trees than I cut.
  172. 13:38–13:42I shall recognize native trees and preserve their seeds.
  173. 13:42–13:46I shall not allow energy to become waste heat.
  174. 13:46–13:50I shall imagine, but I shall also act.
  175. 13:50–13:54I shall admit the mistakes of the past.
  176. 13:54–13:58I shall plant a new dream.
  177. 13:58–14:01Say it will all be the same.
  178. 14:01–15:00Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
  179. 15:00–15:07If the route survive, we shall survive.

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विदेहा परज़ेंच भी शलत तो आश्छ। माइदली श्फर्स्ट ख्लामबदवारनिस च्फर्ष्ड़श श्विप्ठ्ट्ट, विदेहा विदेहा विदेहा विदेहा विप्ट्टट श्विप्ट्ट श्विप्ट्ट, An English language radio adaptation. Come, come. Come and watch this Crossroads play, this street play. Put your phones down for a moment, lift your eyes. The sky that is changing is your own sky. Hey, what are all of you saying? What is this? Everyone, gather round. Form a circle. Stand in a ring for this Mathili Crossroads play. It will be a powerful play. Come on, come on. Let them put on their mathily play. We're watching a play put food on your plate. No, sister. This play is for the hungry, hunger of the stomach, hunger of the mind, hunger for language, and hunger for clean air. When the air falls ill, even the stomach feels empty. True enough. Then let us go and watch. Come, come! Today there will be a play for children, adolescents, young people, adults and the elderly, a play for women and men, a play for birds and tiny birds, for trees and plants, for air and wind, a play for the sun, moon and stars, for the visible and invisible, for the nation, for sleep and dreams. And if, while watching, you begin to think, then this will also become a play for the earth. Oh, just tell us plainly who this play is not for. Why are you making such grand speeches? Have I left anyone out? There you are. I have to say that too. Now begin the spectacle and show us how far this play reaches. Very well. Let us begin. I am a lamb. I am a bird. No, a firefly. I am a monster. I am a tiny bird. Ha ha! A firefly. I am Jayant. I am a tree. I am a pala. I am a tree. Ha ha! I am VJ. I am the sun and the stars. I am Vajaya. I am the moon, Chanda. Hee hee. I am a ghost, a spirit, a demon. I am a dream that is imagination. I, I, I. What is your work? What is your work? Give us any task and see how well we do it. But the work of the world will stay together. Bird and tiny bird, both of you come forward and become fireflies. Where are you, Asta? I have seen the signal. I was like the bat in the thicket. Yes, it is done. What has happened? Did you not see how we found each other through light without shouting, without smoke, without fire? When I was human, I mean, before I die, I used to experiment with this a great deal. What do you say, Ramvati? You did experiment, but so much heat came with the light. The stifling heat could kill a person. If there is light, heat is bound to come out. Neclogy, out of every 16 parts of energy, you produced 15 parts of heat and only one part of light. You fancied yourself a great scientist. The light did come, but the stifling heat could kill. Only when energy is saved can the earth be saved. You are imagination, after all. That is why, after dying, you became imagination. And that is why you became a ghost, a spiret, a demon. Then you tell us whether light can be obtained without heat. No, it is not possible. It is possible, Vijay. Vijaya has arrived. Ask her whether she has any light of her own. No, she does not. Yet the moonlight she scatters at night certainly feels cool. Ha! Imagination! Keep saying whatever comes into your head, keep saying it. Had you listened to me while you were alive and used your imagination you could have made light without stifling heat cool light. Listen, O'Aim and Osstha, light without stifling heat. Now you two tell her that light without heat is impossible. If light gave off heat, five flies would die. Then how are the two of you alive? What do you mean? Our light is cool. Light comes from my tail, cool light. This is not a game, it is the science of the body. It cools the heart. It sends a signal and helps us find one another. Light that brings companions together is good, light that scorches the earth is incomplete. Oh, I kept gazing at the moon over distant lands at night, and went on imagining. But you, Neclo, why could we not see the fireflies wandering at night? The science of a small creature shone before us long before it appeared in a great book. I am a failed scientist. I wander as a demon, burning in the energy of light. Oh imagination, I could not imagine, otherwise, I would have become a firefly. Had you fulfilled that dream of mine, I too would have become a firefly. So many trees and forests would not have been cut. Look how far the forest has receded. As trees diminish, shade diminishes, water diminishes, and songs diminish. We have been left alone, as lonely as the sun, stars and moon, but the sun and moon can shine from far away. When a tree is left alone, the village dries up. We have been left all alone. In a few days we shall be gone. Seems so. We shall become ghosts, spirits and demons. Why? How did you come to this condition? Because of you. Because of you alone. What have I done now? You cut us down to make paper. You cut us down for chairs, doors, decorations, and single use things that are thrown away. You cut us down to build houses. But those things were necessary. They had to be made, did they not? Then why did you not plant us again? Why did you not imagine? Tell us. Why did you not imagine? Imagine what? Imagine how many trees you would cut and how many times that number you would plant. But I did plant trees. You planted eucalyptus. You planted foreign trees. They drank all the blood. No, no all the water from the soil planting a tree that does not understand the soil's thirst does not make a forest Do not put all the blame on me Do you not use energy to I? Am a scientist. I understand all of this But if knowledge is not put into practice science itself remains incomplete We burn oxygen to make a food food and burn it as our labor demands. In the winter months we keep ourselves warm, yet we do not heat the whole world. I know all of that, but we produce only a little heat. And even that is for all of you. For us? How? How? We keep the lotus flower warm so that your hands do not freeze when you pluck it in winter. Sector spends its heat with restraint. Human beings spend it without measure. Then, when someone cuts you, why do you not defend yourselves? Imagine, think, think. We do. We do as much as we can. We show you thorns and drive you away. We feed you fruit and drive hunger away. Pluck our flowers and carry them home. Offer them to your gods and ancestors. We tempt you with fruit and flowers. We give you shade. We give you breath. We frighten you with thorns, but an axe is not afraid of thorns. Even then, you refuse to stop. Imagine, think, think. Oh, imagination, what you told me, that we must plant many times the number of trees we cut, please tell them that too. Their feet are rooted in the soil. How can they do that? But seeds, pollen, wind, water, birds and animals can all become their feet. Imagination. Think. Think. A seed catches in a buffalo's hair and travels with it far from here. The buffalo shakes. The seed drops there. With rooted feet we journey there. We make tiny hook like barbs on a seed, so that it catches in an animal's coat and travels far. This is our journey without a ticket, without smoke. Far away the seed gives birth to a new tree. A butterfly carries pollen far away. With that pollen it fertilizes another tree, in a distant land. Imagination. Jaiyant, now I feel that we shall disappear. What will happen in a country whose scientists do not imagine, in a village whose children do not count its trees? Apalla, there the imagined treeless future becomes reality. But if the children count the seeds today, the future can still be rewritten. As it has been here. Cut our roots and we shall turn to ash. Take all our flowers and leaves. All the children are dead. Our roots and we shall we shall turn to ash. Take all our flowers. I shall protect the firefly's cool light. I shall also protect the darkness of night, so that the stars remain visible. I shall plant more trees than I cut. I shall recognize native trees and preserve their seeds. I shall not allow energy to become waste heat. I shall imagine, but I shall also act. I shall admit the mistakes of the past. I shall plant a new dream. Say it will all be the same. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes If the route survive, we shall survive.

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