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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Roots By Alex Haley
The story of seven generations, whose most ancient ancestor is Kunta Kinte, a Gambian. He is abducted forcibly from his African village and enslaved. The author Alex Haley goes back, back to his roots, to his great great great grand father’s African village putting together all his painstaking research to produce this moving book. In…
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My observations of a classroom.
What other place for a teacher than a classroom; A room with a class of students willing to learn from their teacher. All other sources or gadgets of learning like learning platforms, digital classrooms, Tabs, Apps, Guides can never replace the teacher. A Teacher who ‘Knows’ the subject, ‘Knows’ the students and ‘Knows’ to submerge the individual identity in the collective wisdom of the class, reigns supreme. For a good class to happen (Not in the Physical sense) the teacher should have a clear plan in place as to the objectives of the session, learning content to be transferred, creative thinking to be encouraged and
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How I Came to Admire Hamlet
A personal account of coming to admire Hamlet—not only as a great tragedy, but as a work whose language, thought and dramatic power remain alive.
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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit has been called a masterpiece among masterpieces by G.B.Shaw. Like many of Dickens’ novels this too is a London novel; the metropolis in which Dickens locates his characters. The urbane, aristocratic, well –to-do citizens of this city in contrast to the struggling impoverished folk from the poorer sections gives an ambience and canvas…
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A river cruise
Being a denizen of Nellore I have had a great fascination for the river Godavari. This mighty and beautiful river which had been extolled so much in Telugu Literature and inspired many poets and artists to weave magical words and images about it was nearly unknown, because I did not get an opportunity to see it until after my 25th year. My first impression of the Godavari was when I had to attend the wedding of one of my friends in Rajahmundry. The mighty, majestic views of this river as it rolled serenely towards its confluence with the ocean on that misty morning as the
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Leonardo da Vinci — The Resurrection of the Gods
Leonardo Da Vinci – The Resurrection of the Gods is an astounding work. Like Dostoyevsky, here is the author setting the dialectic of the God and the Devil against one another. Whether sinful pride in your adoration of God is a mark of the devil itself? Are knowledge and truth, the devotion of the scientist…
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Dan Fesperman’s ‘Lie in the Dark’
A detective thriller or a cop novel which delineates the critical investigative process is thoroughly satisfying but when the narrative is also sharp and sensitive to the aspects of life entwined in a murder, the novel becomes a spectacular achievement. Vlado is the Inspector of Police who is entrusted the sensitive case of investigating the…
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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a classic. There are only a few novels which define the ethos of a Nation. They are so definitive or detailed that they become referential points about a period or an era in the history of that Nation. The half truths or generalizations of their narrative does not dilute the…
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Bleak House
Bleak House heralds the prowess of Charles Dickens at his highest point. Woven around a lawsuit named Jarndyce Vs Jarndyce, the novel bears the distinctive stamp of the novelist, especially his powers of observation and characterization. The range of people who are present in a Dickens novel, makes him no less than a social historian…
