After a hiatus of nearly 7 years I travelled in an unreserved train compartment recently from Nellore to Vijayawada. Travel in a reserved air conditioned coach is a sanitised experience where order and protocol is enforced on an otherwise chaotic Indian railway carriage. Also boundaries of class because of the higher cost of the travel create barriers of access. A group of Bhavanis boarded the compartment along with me.
From John Ford to High Noon and The Magnificent Seven, Krishna Mohan reflects on the moral codes, archetypes and vast landscapes that give the Western its enduring power.
I sometimes wonder whether years in administration give one the right to advise teachers. But one thought has stayed with me: a teacher must never stop learning.
Bharathiraja’s rural cinema becomes a way of thinking about landscape, honour, gender and love—and about whether Muthupechi is allowed a voice of her own.
బుచ్చిబాబు ‘చివరకు మిగిలేది’లో దయానిధి వ్యక్తిత్వం, ప్రేమ, అన్వేషణ, వైరుధ్యం, శూన్యం మరియు సత్యాన్వేషణ గురించి నా ఆత్మీయ సాహిత్య పరిశీలన.
At India’s southern edge, sea, memory, faith and travel merge as Krishna Mohan moves through Kanniyakumari and Trivandrum, searching for what makes a place stay with us.
Luis Bunuel was one of the founders of the surrealist movement in films along with Salvador Dali. Surrealism is the exploration of something beyond the real. It is digging into the dream like, deep unconscious to discover new realms of expression. It is the mind’s unconditioned, unhampered response to ideas. It is not rational, not pragmatic…
C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary. The book is highly regarded and hailed as one of the greatest sports books ever written. Recording my impressions about this book, may result in unleashing a string of adjectives. Praise and acclaim have been bestowed upon it by thinkers, players and philosophers.
Being an officer in the A.P. administrative machinery, I had the opportunity to visit all the districts of united A.P. except Adilabad. Although I have worked mostly in the coastal districts, I could visit all the districts in Telangana for some inspection or the other. In my 27 years of service in the welfare departments only Adilabad district had remained out of bounds for me.
ఒక బిడియమైన విద్యార్థి, ఒక చలాకీ అమ్మాయి, హాస్టల్ గదుల మధ్య మొదలైన చూపుల ఆట — ఆకర్షణ, ఊహ, అమాయకత్వం కలిసిన చిన్న కథ.