The very notion of celebration poses a great difficulty to define, especially in the context of poetry. But certain parameters may be found to show that a particular poem celebrates this or that thing, this or that idea....

Many years ago, Jug Suraiya, a famous journalist recorded an experience of watching IIPostino in one of the Speaking Tree columns of The Times of India. He says:In the film Il Postino, the village postman gives the girl ...

A couple of years ago, I was heading a panel of paper-setters for a state-level competition. The papers to be set pertained to English Literature. The agency which had given us the task, had duly informed the whole panel...

The story goes that after defeating Mandan Mishra - the great Buddhist philosopher of 8th Century, in a discourse, Adi Shankaracharya was finally intrigued by Mandan Mishras consort who on the plea of being the ardhangin...

Man is an amphibian’—said Huxley. But a poet seems to transcend this definition as he is more of an amphi-avian living in so many worlds together specially during the creative moments. All times are one time ...

Ive always believed that teaching, like life itself, is a performance by a selected few. Not everyone can be a teacher. To perform is to live with ones total being. To live with ones total being amounts to be blessed wit...

that he does not deserve that the time is not auspicious that the day is not Saturday nor even Makar Sankranti that he is dipsomaniac that he a druggie that he is not a pauper that he i...

  "Well after his death in 1955”, says John Willett, "Brecht the poet remained like an unsuspected time-bomb ticking away beneath the engine-room of world literature." It is indeed unfortunate that the popula...

A regular and constant assessment of any human activity is a prerequisite for proper growth and development. This is equally applicable to education. It becomes all the more important these days when so much of hue and c...