Category: English

To Read: First Part: https://tamizhini.in/2018/11/14/the-ba-in-the-bapu-kannan-t/ Second Part: https://tamizhini.in/2019/01/13/the-ba-in-the-bapu-part-2-kannan-t/ Third Part: https://tamizhini.in/2019/02/17/the-ba-in-the-bapu-part-3-kannan-t/ (12) A few days before his death, Vallabhbhai Patel said, ”The love that Ba bore me I never experienced from my own mother. Whatever parental love fell to my lot, I got from Bapu and Ba…” This was not an isolated remark from one person. It was […]

“Saar, I am always very much interest in theattar, saar.” “Oh, that’s nice. So, what interests you about the theater?” “Er … Um … Saar, I am always want to act in fillums, saar, so only I want to join your theattar group, saar.” “Er … Um …” This conversation snippet, or a variant thereof, […]

In the opening scene of Sonchiriya, a group of dacoits witness a dead snake on their way. A scared bandit requests that they should turn away as this is a sign of a curse. The one they can’t break. Yes, they do believe in such superstitions. However, they proceed that way, because their leader ordered […]

Bittersweet You wouldn’t know how sweet it was back then to imagine and yearn when I couldn’t see or be with her. Attaining the unattainable privacy, pressing my lips to her ear I had once cooed the words Sweetie pie, upon which pretending to un-hear what she had just heard She turned and with a […]

Questioner: Will the practice of Yoga as it is being done in Europe and America help to bring about a spiritual awakening? Is it true that Yoga will awaken deeper energy, which is called Kundalini? Krishnamurti: May I read it once more? Is it not necessary? Audience: No. Krishnamurti: Right. The so-called Yoga which the west and part of the east in India, was invented […]

Director Lee Chang-Dong is one of the most reputed Korean Filmmakers of his generation. His last film, Poetry, was released eight years ago. He has made his comeback by adapting a short novel written by Haruki Murakami titled ‘Barn Burning’. In this Palme d’Or competent, Burning (2018), he offers us insightful and credible characters by […]

Jurek Becker’s “My Father, the Germans and I” is another book that I stumbled across randomly in the library. I picked up the lightweight hardbound book just because I liked the feel of it and the title held some interest to me. I had never heard of the author before. I am so glad that […]

To Read: First Part : https://tamizhini.in/2018/11/14/the-ba-in-the-bapu-kannan-t/ Second Part : https://tamizhini.in/2019/01/13/the-ba-in-the-bapu-part-2-kannan-t/ (9) After a long period of personal and political transformation, the Gandhi family left South Africa in July, 1914. While the rest of the party went to India directly, Gandhi and Kasturba first went to England, along with Kallenbach, to meet Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who was recuperating […]

Questioner: I would like to talk about suicide – not because of any crisis in my own life, nor because I have any reason for suicide, but because the subject is bound to come up when one sees the tragedy of old age – the tragedy of physical disintegration, the breaking up of the body, […]

Some writers begin to write with talent, quickly earn a reputation among readers and critics, and then are suddenly silenced forever. We had two such men at the Yiddish Writers’ Club in Warsaw. One, Menahem Roshbom, had managed, before he was thirty, to publish three novels. The other, Zimmel Hesheles, had at the age of […]

Director Hu Bo’s debut feature film, ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’, is stupendous because of its enormous ambition that offers us a unique opportunity to meditate on the perpetual search for the meaning of life. The four-hour movie, following the course of inter-linked events taking place in 24 hours or less, unfolds the story of four […]

“Whither do we go from here”, asked Jawaharlal Nehru, on the eve of India’s freedom, and answered that the nation needed to “create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.” It is that idea of India that is now hijacked and perverted by a […]