The Rose Family by Robert Frost, or Poem 2
Frost’s evokes Romeo and Juliet in this poem. This is one of Frost’s lesser known poems. But his legendary machismo intrudes upon the poem unlike Shakespeare who never intruded in his works.
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Review of Akash Verma’s You Never Know
Adultery, murder and anomie go hand in hand in this fast paced thriller. Like all works of popular fiction it is good in patches and demands only one reading. Nonetheless an essential reading if one were to understand today’s India.
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Poem 1, by Francis William Bourdillon
This is one of those love poems which never leaves the heart. What use if we call poetry texts? What use if we forget that poetry is what makes us human? What use to know that the Big Bang occurred if one has not felt abject in a sky afire with stars?
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Review of Buddha at Work: Finding Balance, Purpose and Happiness at Your Workplace
This is an interrogation of the Valley of Words’ nominated book, Buddha at Work through a Nichiren Buddhist hermeneutics. In this process the review proves Jim McGuigan and Harold Bloom correct in their invectives against cultural populism.
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Reviewing Intimacy Undone: Marriage, Divorce and Family Law in India
I came across this book through the VoW literary festival to be held in November 2018. Therefore I took it up for review and I find it is one of the best books in the market on its subject and falls within the continuum of Kakar and Ira Trivedi. Though I compare Rajkotia with Kakar and later, Leonard Cohen, she simply bows to cultural populism and her book is ephemera when compared to the Kinsey Reports, leave alone Henry Miller or/& Anais Nin’s works. This review proves the uselessness of studying popular culture. John Storey be darned.
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Review of The Flavour of Spice
This is a review of a cookery book nominated for the Valley of Words book competition, 2018. The review sees the book as a historically important document on colonialism.
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On Tantra (to be continued)
This is an essay on Tantra which originated from a draft prepared for some other purpose. Here I try to show how Tantra and Yoga are related to each other.
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Hichki: why critics are wrong & the plight of the poorest of the poor in India
This is a review of the film Hichki. The reviewer critiques the Indian education system and Indian plutocracy.
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Of Frs. Christian Mignon & Lawrence Abello or, Lectio Divina 2 (R.I.P. Fathers)
Frs. Christian Mignon and Lawrence Abello were our greatest linguists and neo-Thomists. This post remembers them. Fr. Mignon went to the Man from Galilee this October, 20. Fr. Abello had returned to Jesus earlier.
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Why you should never read Hideo Yokoyama
This novel makes a mockery of the Japanese police, of parenting in Japan and of the modernist technique in Japanese letters. A forgettable and regrettable monumental effluvia.
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Reviewing Intimacy Undone: Marriage, Divorce and Family Law in India
28 Aug 2018
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Review of The Flavour of Spice
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