నవల — Part 2
The story deepens, the characters evolve, and new questions arise in this continued exploration.
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Luis Buñuel and Surrealist Cinema
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…
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నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2
More books, more conversations, and the many ways they stay with us.
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Beyond a Boundary
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.
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Kolkata
For a long time I had wanted to visit Kolkata, a city about which I have read a lot, heard and thought a lot. From the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Bibhuti Bhushan, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sarat Chandra, from the films of Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen i had a few notions in my head. I have been an ardent admirer of the intellectual spirit of this city. Bengal; the cradle of Indian renaissance, the land of pioneering reform, the place from where the flames of freedom fanned across India, the land of intellectuals, reformers and patriots, I wanted to be
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The Study of History
After I completed my +2, I tried to get into a BSC course. It so happened that the seats in BSC those days were highly in demand and I could not get a BSC ZPC or BZC. When I was drifting aimlessly and unable to decide what to do next, opportunity knocked and I got admission into B.A (H.E.P).History, English, Political Science mainly because I studied Advanced English in my +2. This course was called B.A (Litt) during those days.
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From Robinson Crusoe to Contemporary Fiction
Being shipwrecked on a remote, uninhabited island in the 18th century. Communication is non-existent. There is no hope of rescue. The wreck is the only source of supplies but there is the green tropical island full of Nature’s bounty. This is the age of enlightenment, the age of discovery. An age which believes in the…
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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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Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
A protagonist who is the epitome of vice From 18th century England, Daniel Defoe portrays the character of a woman who is born destitute and poor, who is wronged by fate but crafts her way in the world to establish herself as the epitome of vice. She is the angel of wickedness, deceit, lure and…
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A reflection on Bulgakov’s celebrated novel and the strange, satirical world in which the magical and the political continually disturb one another.
