Upholder of Subramanya Bharati’s legacy We are deeply sorry to record that Prof.P.K.Sundar Rajan, husband of poet Subramanya Bharati’s grand-daughter, Dr.Vijaya Bharati passed away in Vancuar, Canada. This is the day of Subramanya Bharati’s birth day. Ironically, this day comes with the news of the poet’s close family member passing away. This news is so…
Category: People
Promoting music and dance!
Amjad Ali Khan says Every state capital in India should have a cultural complex Like London’s South bank Centre or Carnegie Hall, New York One can’t say it any better! One can’t excel also the Western countries when it comes to culture and what it means culture promotion. Amjad Ali Khan is a great Indian…
Salute to Sam Bahadur!
Government of India must have conferred the Bharat Ratna Even on his deathbed, he deserved the highest honour! Sam Bahadur as he was lovingly and with much indulgence called by one and all is no more. Salute to his memory. He would be remembered for a long time to come. It is nice to remember…
Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani
Globalisation where India holds central place! Globalisation is now taken for granted. What is not made clear by our planners and policy makers are the fact that globalisation is neither 100 per cent possible or desirable. There are limits to globalisation. The point is whether we in India have realised the full dimensions of the…
An Open Letter to Narayanamurthy
Let him not reach for the moon! Let him walk on the M.G.Road! Mr.N.R.Narayanamurthy, the Infosys founder and the IT industry icon is justly lauded for his great achievements. He had in a way, transformed India single-handedly and as such he deserves a Bharat Ratna. If he had not been so honoured so far, it…
Biltin Toker, my friend
Biltin Toker, my friend Biltin Toker was my friend at Oxford, he was from Istanbul, Turkey. He studied architecture at Oxford and we became close friends. He used to win prizes for his innovative architecture designs and he and his designs used to be flashed at the Oxford towns local paper, Oxford Mail. After we…
Nani A.Palkhivala
The multi-faceted genius of a lawyer. The book (Nani A.Palkhivala, a life by M.V. Kamath, Nani A.Palkhivala Memorial Trust, Hay House India, 2007, pp 524, Rs.595) is a rare one. A beautifully written book on a beautifully-lived life. The subject of the biography is a distinguished lawyer whose types are not born every time in…
My Oxford day intellectuals and scholars
I have written elsewhere, some time ago, about the number of persons who influenced my thought and also the way I think about issues. Those whom I didn’t not know personally but whose books influenced me form one set of such persons. These range from poets to philosophers, journalists, men like Boris Pasternak and other…