స్వప్న సుందరి
ఒక బిడియమైన విద్యార్థి, ఒక చలాకీ అమ్మాయి, హాస్టల్ గదుల మధ్య మొదలైన చూపుల ఆట — ఆకర్షణ, ఊహ, అమాయకత్వం కలిసిన చిన్న కథ.
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Part-2 Vocabulary
Improving your vocabulary becomes easy when we start observing how language behaves since language is a system which is undergoing a process of continuous evolution. A small example towards this evolutionary nature of language (English in this case) becomes evident when we look at these sentences from Shakespeare, “Bring me to Octavius” in the manner of take me to Octavius where as bring as a verb today means fetching “This thou shall suddenly” in the manner of quickly whereas suddenly today would mean, ‘without notice’. “Let us remove” in the sense, let us leave this place.
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Some Random thoughts on Education
School Education in India starts from the day a child is born. Parental control of the child’s fortunes is so severe that there is an understanding as to the child’s future study, vocation and career shortly after the birth of the child.Parental aspirations carve an image for the child and schooling becomes the first step towards realizing this aspiration. Uncertainty about economic fortune and eagerness to establish a security for the child is driving millions of Indian families into investing time and money disjunctive to known principles of Education i;e the child’s interest and aptitude.
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And Quiet Flows the Don
A return to Sholokhov’s sweeping Cossack world, where war, revolution, landscape, love and human endurance move together across generations.
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Return to Kerala
It is welcome to be having a feeling of déjà vu now and then. After my childhood of 2 years in Cochin some 50 years ago, I could visit Kerala again. It is Sun and rain which alternate in nearly symmetrical patterns that make me enthusiastic. Far from a land that knows only one season, Summer; I’m in Kerala at that time of the year when the monsoon is active.
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The Pune Porsche Accident, Justice and Social Values
The gruesome accident in Pune that was caused by a drunk youth, driving recklessly in his newly gifted Porsche car has literally lifted the seal on the can of worms that is eating into our social fabric. From one serious mistake to another, starting from a father gifting such a luxurious car to his son, the bar serving liquor liberally to a minor boy, the machinery which took a ‘liberal’ view of this atrocious crime, the political machinery which woke up even at ‘2’ in the morning to be on duty for their benefactor’s son, the official bureaucracy in the form of doctors and medical
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The Monk
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. A Romance was published in the year 1796. The word romance may be a little misleading and has to be understood in the context of the 18th century as Imaginary or Super-natural. Is there a place for the super-natural amidst human society? If the scriptures are to be believed,…
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Things Fall Apart
A return to Achebe’s landmark novel and the tragedy of an individual, a culture and a social order confronted by disruptive historical change.
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Gabriel García Márquez and Love in Fiction
A reflection on love in García Márquez’s fiction and the many forms desire, memory, patience and human attachment can take.
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Comics
I knew nothing about comics until my 7th standard. In my 7th standard I joined a new school in Chennai and I was introduced to Comics by my friends who used to read them on the under desk while bending their heads, pretending to write. They would not lend them to me to take to the hostel. I could borrow only in the school hours.
