With MGR - Former CM. Tamil Nadu »
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M.G R (M. G Ramachandran) was at his peak fim career in the year 1972. Isvarmurti’s friendship started from this time onwards. It continued when MGR rose to become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu [...]
New College, Oxford 1959 »
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In front of the main New College entrance. Founded in 13th century, New College was then and still continues to be one of the largest Oxford Colleges. This was the first college to introduce the [...]
Cheena Bhavan, Santiniketan 1958 »
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The Chinese language class of Prof Tan Yun Shan at Santiniketan. V.Isvarmurti (top right hand corner) was attending a 3 year diploma in Chinese language. Prof Tan Yun Shan was a contemporary of Generalassiamo Chiang [...]
How I became an entrepreneur? »
Nothing in my life prepared me for an entrepreneur! No one would believe how I had changed or to use a current phrase, how I had re-invented myself!
This thought ran through my mind recently as I was glancing through the pages of any old book I edited when we launched the Vadamalai Media Group. The [...]
Two big biographies : Winston Churchill, Lord Keynes »
Time has come to call the British bluff. The “New Britain” is seen by British people themselves as a nation given to much war-mongering on the part of Tony Blair who imagines himself a second Winston Churchill! More war interventions, more name and fame for Britain.
I had read the two biographies of two great men, [...]
Autobiographical : What history I studied? »
My Oxford years : crowded by philosophers and historians!
A.J.P.Taylor, Isiah Berlin, James Joll
Indians need to learn to distrust much of British written history. The immediate provocation for this essay is the reading of A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990), the well-known British historian, for the second time. I had the good fortune to attend his history lectures in [...]
A fine piece of chaste Tamil prose writing »
An Autobiography
Incidentally, no other Tamil district town, as far as I know, has such a well-built cultural and literary meeting place and in this Salem stands out as a unique society of much literary merit.
There was one more literary meet in Salem.This time it was the invitation of a leading figure in the Salem literary [...]
Zest for Living »
Thoughts on class structure, material wealth and cultural attainments.
Creative ideas, creative energy that keeps my enthusiasms alive!
As soon as I finished typing this essay I went out and put on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by Herbert Von Karajan. What an impact it made on me, on my mood! There was this sudden reaction and a sobering [...]
My intellectual evolution »
My interests, concerns, tastes and temperaments!
Freedoms of man, my critical core belief.
I can’t pretend to be other than what I am!
What am I? Who am I?
Such a question or questions can be posed as a plain simple self-questioning at a more pedestrian life. Or, such a question can be taken more seriously at a more [...]