The Effulgence Within

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

Andrea del Sarto (the dressmaker’s son)

The sun is setting and the atmosphere, stiflingly windless; it is the evening twilight. Andrea, the son of a sartor (dress-maker) and a brilliant painter is sitting in his studio at Fiesole, a small town near Florence, with Lucrezia, his worldly-minded wife and model, who has for long forsaken any... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Faded rose-leaves too have a distinct aroma of their own

Charles lamb’s prose style, as seen in his essays, is elaborate with affectation, borrowed yet absolutely individual and idiosyncratic, mannered but never mannerised. Indeed, what seems artificial in Lamb’s style is actually natural to him. Lamb belonged in spirit to the seventeenth century, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 2, 2023

Emily Dickinson: Intoxicated Unity of Self and Nature

Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” is a symbolic statement on the source of poetic inspiration and the nature of poetic feeling and thought. The poet begins by saying that she tastes a liquor and is becoming intoxicated. The liquor is not any particular kind of brew, as is the product... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Two Voices of Good and Bad: Can both be Right?

In ‘The Power and the Glory’ by British author Graham Greene, the title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." In Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory (1940), the central issue is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Poetry is admittedly to Act upon the Emotions

The British philosopher and economist, John Stuart Mill wrote this essay ' Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties' in 1832, when he was twenty-six. A man of sharp intellect, it is a careful analysis of his views on the different kinds of poetry he read during his time. (An off-course information - the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 23, 2023

The Greek myth of Pandora’s Box of blessings into a Christian myth.

Hesiod tells us that Zeus, the king of Olympian gods was furious when Prometheus stole fire from heaven and brought it to man. To seek revenge as Olympic titans were accustomed to – seeking pleasure at man’s suffering and helplessness, took revenge on Prometheus by sending Pandora to Prometheus’... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

How can I tell when words fall short

I am passionately in love with that indefinable word, 'ineffable'. For it says more than what words can say. Whenever anything happens deep inside our hearts overwhelming us to silence, words divorce us to a state of speechlessness. And it is good that it does. A flood of tears, a warm hug or a kiss... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 16, 2023

The Three Sisters : Chekhov

Anton Chekov’s play The Three Sisters (1901) centers around the lives of three sisters. The eldest Olga, an old maid of twenty-eight, teaches at a girls’ school; the middle sister Masha is unhappily married to a school teacher; the youngest Irina, who is twenty and unmarried, is wooed by two army... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 10, 2023

The fantastic calculations that amaze us beyond thoughts

The Vedic astronomical findings dating back to more than 10000 years and their conceptions of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva principles come close to modern discoveries of science but uncannily much more accurate, precisely to the twelfth decimal points with regard to creation, but not of dissolution - of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

A Sonnet in Mixed-up Gropings

I know not what strange affliction assails me today Somehow it tells me Aba, you’ve gone too far Hold, hold, why don’t you realize it’s not your day Conscerate all to Lord and spare the unnecessary spar You indulge in, in your rationality walks of daily life All are nothing but mere exercises in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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