It has been a long time since I have left my village to live in a city. A city dweller left without anything to do has to find ways to consume time. A village has its charms and interests which give a feeling of time standing still and an unchanging scene. After a long time I made a chance visit to a village and could see a fair.
A close reading of Jane Eyre as a novel of conscience, independence, moral resolve, deprivation and the sustaining presence of nature.
Validation is what is generic to all disciplines which have a claim to the status of a science.Generally it has been established in the following sequence of events: Experiment, observation and inference or interpretation in the context of sociology. Such an experiment which when replicated in different situations or contexts can be validated . Validity is when such laws and hypothesis give a proper and proven result. Reliability is the authenticity of a law , a philosophical truth or a doctrine to enable comprehension and interpretation in the sociological context.
Of love and other demons by Marquez took me into familiar territory; the territory in my cerebral space which is especially reserved for the fictionary tales of Marquez. This space gets activated as the indicators that receive signals begin to infuse my creative imagination, for reading a manuscript from Marquez is like awakening my dormant…
Gogol writes with fantastic clarity and energy. His realism is no artificial endeavor. He sees everything exactly as it is. His hero-villain of the novel Pavel-Ivanovich Chichikov is by all means a rogue. But the novelist at no place goes to excesses either to vilify or to redeem his character. He sees him as he…
Perhaps not. Chronological record may show John Milton nearer to the likes of Dryden, Pope and Congreve but the spirit of the epic is certainly Renaissance in spirit and the tone certainly classical not neo classical. The story is not ordinary satirical stuff about common things but about justifying the ways of God to man.
A reflection on Pearl S. Buck’s China, Wang Lung’s devotion to the land, O-lan’s stoicism, and the changing values of a society in transition.
How time passes; I went to Chennai on Friday to attend a meeting. We were put up at the State Guest house Chepauk. I could find some time to adjust some visits into the itinerary. We worshiped Lord Shiva at the Kabaleeswaran Koil Mylapore, the center of Brahmin power in Chennai. I had visited this temple some good 40 years ago.
Arrived in Dehradun on Wednesday evening. The journey from Delhi to Dehradun is very short. We arrived here on a chilly evening. The weather here is very cold. We were given accommodation in the Golden Jubilee hostel. The food is bland, la canteen style and it is mostly potato and paneer. The IIRS campus is beautiful with a number of trees inside. We could see fir and mango trees mostly. The lecture halls and auditorium are state of the art
Years ago I had gone for an inquiry to a far off place in my district. It was to identify some land and submit my report to the Collector. I asked my driver Khajavali to get ready for the journey. The next day he was ready with the files and maps .We started early in the morning to reach the place because it was a long journey.