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    Writing is not a cleansing effort. Rather it is a...

    Writing is not a cleansing effort. Rather it is a refinement of life.

    The quote is in bad taste
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    Living with the barest minimum---not a bad idea...

    Living with the barest minimum---not a bad idea at all.
  3. Great Expectations Exceeds our expectations. I...

    Great Expectations Exceeds our expectations. I read it in school and again taugh it to undergraduates. The pathos , humanism and the tragedy of life are well brought. It covers practically...
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    What about Tom Jones? Bitish morals and culture...

    What about Tom Jones? Bitish morals and culture are interwoven with the humaneness that English wrting is all about
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    I still read Enid Blyton

    I still read Enid Blyton
  6. Love in Shelley

    Very like Shelley to use imagery which is connected with Nature. This poem gives us a dismal picture of love by focussing on the transitoriness of all material things. Love too is treated as...
  7. Very like Shelley to use imagery which is...

    Very like Shelley to use imagery which is connected with Nature. This poem gives us a dismal picture of love by focussing on the transitoriness of all material things. Love too is treated as...
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    Poll: Shakespeare was a writer , a humanist. He did not...

    Shakespeare was a writer , a humanist. He did not mean to be prejudiced against Jews. He was just potraying the cultural ethos to evoke a sense of sympathy for those who are socially unacceptable...
  9. Thread: Undoing...

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    An air of pink and white butterflies? Seems...

    An air of pink and white butterflies? Seems deliberately ambiguous to me. But fascinates me too. The colour and movement are balanced . A good poem
  10. Thread: Trees

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    That was a deliberate attempt to sound odd. May...

    That was a deliberate attempt to sound odd. May be I was wrong. How about "The fluting cowherd " or cowherd with a flute?
  11. Thread: Trees

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    Not a bong , but very appreciative of Bongs.

    Not a bong , but very appreciative of Bongs.
  12. Thread: Trees

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    Trees

    Thanks for reading and commenting. I should have been careful about typos . The fluted cowherd is what I really meant. sorry
  13. Thread: Trees

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    Trees

    We rose sucking the earth's milk
    Grew and branched in many directions
    Leaf, flower, fruit covered us seasonally.
    Winds danced and rains sang about us
    In flood amd drought we waited
    The birds...
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    Yes it is a man's voice. Otherwise why should the...

    Yes it is a man's voice. Otherwise why should the grieving woman be seen as so weak that only a god can punish her offender? The irony and ridicule are unmistakbly there although there is also a...
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    Poll: Siddharta is a book worth reading many times...

    Siddharta is a book worth reading many times over. It is not a religious text. It is fiction with psychological truths thrown in. The central character is one we can identify with because he stands...
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    Poll: The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris.

    The Human Zoo is an explication of the concept of the city as a concrete jungle.In this book the author analysises issues pertaining to the people living in dense urban communities. He underlines the...
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    Jane Austen was content to limit herself to the...

    Jane Austen was content to limit herself to the domestic scene. She has a small canvas ,and it was enough for her to draw pictures of the aristocracy, and the nonaristocrats. Her preoccupation with...
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    wind blows who knows where city in sighs.

    wind blows
    who knows where
    city in sighs.
  19. Thread: Gotham

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    tonight the City’s goddess gave up her gothic...

    tonight the City’s goddess
    gave up her gothic black
    for a soft Victorian pink gown.
    I really love these lines for their mysteryand suggestiveness. Gothic black and victorian pink, are not only...
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    Narrowness of vision in Jane Austen

    Jane Austen has very few things to say about life and society. She does not possess the vastness of writers like Dickens or George Eliott. She is most comfartable painting pictures of women who are...
  21. Thread: A Gay Hamlet?

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    If Hamlet is a tragic protagonist does his being...

    If Hamlet is a tragic protagonist does his being homosexual take away from the tragic grandeur of the play? The answer would depend on the belief of the day , on the church and the bible and the...
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    Poll: Chetan Bhagat is not listed among the classics....

    Chetan Bhagat is not listed among the classics. But he is higly contemporary in his assessment of present day society. He also writes for the Times of India. To those who would like to learn about...
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    Poll: Two States by Chetan Bhagat

    Two States by Chetan Bhagat an Indian writer is an immensely readable book. I picked it up at the Wheelers as I was about to board a train. I found the book of great interst as it concerns the life...
  24. Thread: Introducing me

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    Introducing me

    Hi, a very warm greeting from me sadhana. I am looking forward to a great time here.
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