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Prof.Antony Cruz : Book Review

Posted on May 25, 2007May 25, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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All the guilty men of India’s Partition!

Posted on May 3, 2007February 22, 2020 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Saiva Siddhanta – Journal

Posted on April 3, 2007April 3, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

  I was always interested in Indian philosophical issues. There is a close affinity between Tamil language and Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. In the year 1966 I was asked to write an article comparing western and Indian philosophy by the editor of this journal Rao Sahib N. Murugesa Mudaliar, a competent writer in both Tamil and…

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Sketch of the school founded by me in the village

Posted on March 29, 2007October 11, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

This is the sketch by a Santiniketan artist who was working with me at the school I founded in my remote village in South India. This is the view of the original tiled roof along with the trees and the backdrop of western ghats. The school started in 1962 soon after I returned from Oxford….

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Stephen Hawkins’s new book-How to walk the space? How to travel in time?

Posted on March 21, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

There is no word, God, in Hawkins’s latest book. A Briefer History of Time (2005) is a deceptively simple book of just 162 pages but is a very hard going reading indeed. I grappled with it for sometime and then honestly given up! But one can read it or glance through the pages for the…

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Congress Forum for Socialist Action

Posted on March 14, 2007March 16, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

My entry into politics started as soon as I came back from England in 1961-62. Fresh from my Oxford Fabian socialist enthusiasm I looked for socialist friends in the Congress party. In 1962 or so, there was a new movement in the party started by Gulzarilal Nanda to promote an ideological shift towards a doctrinaire…

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First poetry book in Tamil, 1959

Posted on March 14, 2007March 16, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

This was my first poetry book in Tamil published in 1959 while I was in England. Like all first poetry books this is a thin volume of few pages got together by a few friends of mine. Besides the fact that the first poem was written while I was barely 15 years old. This piece…

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Life and Art of C N Vasudevan

Posted on March 12, 2007March 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

  This was a rare book that brings to light what the outside world does not know about how Rabindranath Tagore’s arts, in particular the famous Santiniketan, style of dancing was evolved. Tagore was infact lucky to have this unknown artist from the deep south of India from Pollachi, Coimbatore District. He studied art at…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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