Category: Autobiography

Dev Anand’s  minor classic Dev Anand can write such English with literary merit? Spring comes to Bollywood! Dev Anand’s “Romancing with Life”  is a minor literary classic! Mr. Sunil Dutt and Mrs.Nargis Dutt life stories poignant and deeply moving One, an  autobiography. The other, a loving portrait of a famous film couple. Together they bring…

What price earthly glory ! No man is immortal! An autobiographical odyssey? Not quite!Here are certain random thoughts on why some choose to write autobiographies,while more prominent leaders don’t do the same? An intriguing question?Yes,if you look beyond the superficial writings most autobiographies and biographies are.Some autobiographies are just ego trips.Some others,the ones often by…

Madras Legislative Council is perhaps the first legislative body set up in India in the then Madras Presidency. So it has a enviable pedigree and commanded great prestige and attracted great talents. I was elected when I was barely in my early thirties and perhaps one of the youngest members of the council ever elected…

Each generation learns to study, learn and like to remember certain historic moments or some individuals whom that generation takes as extra-ordinary individuals. They may be leaders, leaders of politics or society or in some significant ways some individuals who in the short run might have had immense impact on that generation. However in the…

They defined the truth and stood up for wisdom! There were a heady mix of  great minds,in several  disciplines. Of course, philosophers came first and they were in good number,some of the top names who still dominate the world thought. Then came the political and social philosophers, it was time when politics took a back…

Yes,all serious writings can be only autobiographical. Then,all autobiographies don’t attain the status of great literature. To reach such a status,the mind has to evolve to new dimensions of self-discovery. That has been my experience so far.  Writing an autobiography or essaying into one’s own thinking and action has been the perennial human quest down…

  This photo was taken at Mahaballipuram, outside Chennai at the Pallava Rock Temples site. Mulk Raj Anand – author of classics like “Untouchable” and “Coolie” – was a long time friend and mentor of V.Isvarmurti. He came to Chennai to release a book authored by Isvarmurti titled ” C.N Vasudevan – Tamil Dancer and…