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Literature and culture »
Elusive Terrain: culture and literary memory
By Meenakshi Mukherjee, 200 pages, OUP, 2008
Now and then, it is nice to read a book by specialist on topics like literature and culture. Meenakshi Mukherjee is a veteran academic specialising in contemporary Indian literature. Both in the Indian languages and that is more important than just talking about the [...]
Autobiographies & Biographies »
Autobiographies are often highly subjective and therefore only partially true in many respects.While biographies are likely to be more reliable and might give a full account of one’s life.
We seem to live at a time when there is an unprecedented change in our lives.Globally it is so.Globalisation is now almost a cliche.Our life on the [...]
Poets and philosophers : Their lives and their troubles! »
Poets and philosophers! When you think of them, what thoughts immediately spring to mind?
They seem to give much life and light to society.Much of our sense of culture and pure aesthetic pleasures, it m is poets and writers seem to be capable of providing.A society without some intellectual strength cant be [...]
Reading and appreciating poetry »
“”When will that shore appear from which at last we see..How all this came to pass and for what reason?”
Reading poetry has been my pastime for long.All my life! Now it has become a passion for me and now it has become a serious pursuit.My tastes and temperament had shaped and changed me to [...]
A study of Indian character needed »
Indian character, the Indian mindset have haunted and disturbed me for long. Unless we study and understand how the Indian character had evolved through the ages, how our character is shaped by our long history of oppression and suppression, we can’t understand ourselves fully. We can’t in turn understand the world outside also fully!
We are [...]
Dravidian era: a great illusion? »
The coming of the Dravidian politics is seen by many uncritical elements as a great blessing. I consider the opposite is true! The illusion of Tamil supremacy stands disproved!
The political obligations of literature »
Let me state at the very beginning that for me literature and arts are intrinsically tied up with politics. There is no literature existing in a vacuum. Literature occupies a public space that very few of the current crops of writers seem to acknowledge. More so with the new crop of the expatriate Indian writers [...]
Kavithaigal : Enadhu Ulakam, Enadhu Ulakiyal, Enadhu Unmaigal »
(V. Isvarmurti (Vadamalai Media P.Ltd., Pichanur, Coimbatore 641 105. - 2004) Page 310 Rs. 200)
Readers exposed to the political pulpit of Tamil
Nadu in the last century might drop Kavithaigal into the Dravidian slot with electrical ease, once they open the volume and read the epigraph!
Tamil : My Askesis
Tamil is my god
Tamil is my askesis
Tamil is [...]
Unknown facts of A 12 year old daughter’s eye witness account »
The close friendship that existed between Aurobindo and the poet is well brought out. The daughter had watched how much Aurobindo too sought the company of the poet,rather than the poet sought after the company of the great yogi and seer. There was a violent storm and heavy rain and Pondicherry was devastated. The next [...]
My book buying interests »
I believe but book selling, in my opinion, is a greater art and science and cultivated good manners!
My book reading and book buying habits had grown over the years and changed radically too. Now, I am time conscious and therefore make quick glancing through the new books I see in the bookshops and make up [...]
