Book Review: Paul Johnson Creators -from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Victor Hugo to Picasso and Disney Harper Collins,2006,pp300 The English people of today seem to be caught in an identity crisis of their own.Lost their empire and with that has gone their assumed plumes of hauteur and bluster.The English,more than the ordinary Brits,the so-called establishment…
Author: V.Isvarmurti
Letter to Sonia Gandhi
In the series of defeats in the State Assembly elections and in the critical municipal elections in Mumbai and Delhi,the latest wipeout in the major state of UP where the Congress finished fourth, the party faces the certain defeat in the 2009 general elections.Already its major ally,the DMK had started weakening the Central Government’s morale…
Prof.Antony Cruz : Book Review
Title of the book “Payanmuraith Thirnaivu NutpangalLiterary criticism: some practical insights,applications. Author: Prof.Antony Cruz,Professor and Head of the Department,Tamil studies,St.Joseph College(autonomous),Trichinapalli,India This is a brief and yet a highly accomplished exercise in literary criticism covering some unsual fields in literature in the Tamil langauge.Just in 150 pages,with 15 chapters,the essays collected here deal with topics…
Facing the next general elections in 2009!
Why Manmohan Singh is seen as a poor performer? That a professional economist can’t make a successful Prime Minister is proved beyond doubt by the three years of Manmohan Singh government. The report to the people put out by the UPA chairperson ,Sonia Gandhi, is proof enough. There will be few takers for this report…
Arjun Singh must go! He messed up higher education!
What is a political reality is now entangled in a complex judicial web! It is time Mr.Arjun Singh, the HRD, minister makes way for a new comer! Indian education caught in a man-made crisis! Indian education system is something gigantic by world standards. It caters to a billion population. India is also a young country….
Does wisdom come with age?
Our own leaders are not setting good examples!Changing values for this generation! Mira Nair’s film, Namesake, based on the novel of the same name by Jumpha Lahiri created a minor stir. It captured the present generation’s plight caught in an alien land! This generation in that sense is paying a heavy price for seeking the…
All the guilty men of India’s Partition!
Shameful Flight,The Last Years of the British Empire in India, by Stanley Wolpert pp 231,OUP, 2006 This book by a serious scholar of India’s modern history,an authoritative writer on Gandhi and Jinnah,has now produced a book that would give us,Indians of the older and younger generations, a new perspective and a thoroughly balanced account of…
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…