Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Monday, June 07, 2010
Man & Wife by Tony Parsons.
The book was in top ten list for some time in Asian Age Sunday page. This is not a conventional fiction but a psychological and rational thinking on the crisis arising out of marriage, divorce, step sons, step daughters and ex-husbands, ex-wives. This fictionalised theoretical analysis of a complicated relations confused identities. At certain points the author highlights the acute and irreversible contradictions between individual players. However, there is no attempt at offering any solution to the critical situation. It is not at all convincing that the main protogonist has virtues that he claims for himself. His relations with his first wife were part of an unbroken tradition of fidility in marriage. Occassional dangling outside of marriage on the part, any two of the partners cannot unsettle a firmly established love relations. All the charecters in this novel are just some kind of hypocrates ultimately. Anyhow one may assume that this novel may be just a reflection of apoint of view espoused by certain groups of social activists who would like to meet with better individuals adjusted to the current state of affairs.
By,
K.N. Krishnan.
By,
K.N. Krishnan.
City of the Beast by Isabel Alende.
This book is about the unknown people in the great amazon jungles for anthropological expedition fictionalised as an adventurious journeys. Just like every part of the planet is target to spacious commercialisation, the impenetrable amazon is a game to the greedy. Though gentry will use every opportunity to take their plans further. An anthropolical expedition can be hijacked to meet their requirements. Unlike in earlier eras, there are rules to protect the ecology of amazon and its ancient inhabitants still everything is good to commercial exploitation of the area. How long this will last? No guess. In fact it will be true if one comes to the conclusion that todays civilized are the pagans and real civilization is found only among the ancient tribals. Ruling juntas of US/UK and their tails are organizing a war against ill armed under nourished poor in Iraq in grand name of civilized world and democracy. Isabel Alende's book should open the eyes of the educated in all the contents especially the US & Britan to the truth that the violence is inhuman, immoral and unethical in any context.
By,
K.N.Krishnan.
By,
K.N.Krishnan.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Beloved Witch
"An autobiography by Ipsita Roy chakravarthi.
Started reading it on 5.02.03 and completed on 11.02.03. The author claimed it to be her own story. But it is fascinating and fantastic. She herself admitts that she is a hardened sceptic but her sceptimism is confined to certain selected phenomenas of modern day life sepcifically the claims of relegions and traditions based on those religious ways. She finds the pre historic religions as more truthful one wiht nature. However, all her understandings based on assumtions and green work used by modern sholars in interpreting pre-historic and pagan beliefs and practices. We will never know for certain that those interpretations were true for those times. She wants us to take her words and know that nature in fact is really supernatural. She tries her best to confirm herself as a 'wiccan' in the most feminist sense. She also believes that the earliest social organizations were mother centred. Then when the pagan societies metamorphosised the mother became the most feared and called witch by the male centred men religious societies.
The authors assertion about a soul apart from the body and the indistructability of the soul. At one point she refers rebirth of the soul. At another point she seems to say that the soul visit other worlds may be a heaven or hell. She did not use these words in her story.
The author pretends to be sceptic but all for uncritical acceptance the wiccan theory and practice. She says she stands against all superstitions and rituals. At the same time she wants us to believe in the extra ordinary power of cristal soul. Thru this she wants us to believe in the existense of pre-historic crystal souls as well as the discovery of the 12 of them. The 13th is missing and yet to be discovered.
At the end she dis solution of centuries of old Wiccan Academy. What happened to all the wiccan parophernelia including the thousands crystals collected in the canadian mountain chatew.
One apprhends that Ispita in fact makes out a case to believe in all kinds of superstitions by claiming for herself some percieved wiccan power over others. However, one must admit her easy handling of the these in a flowing language. The narrative is smooth . Even if we may be too sceptical about the story spinned by the author, the book readable and entertaining by itself.
By K.N. Krishnan.
Started reading it on 5.02.03 and completed on 11.02.03. The author claimed it to be her own story. But it is fascinating and fantastic. She herself admitts that she is a hardened sceptic but her sceptimism is confined to certain selected phenomenas of modern day life sepcifically the claims of relegions and traditions based on those religious ways. She finds the pre historic religions as more truthful one wiht nature. However, all her understandings based on assumtions and green work used by modern sholars in interpreting pre-historic and pagan beliefs and practices. We will never know for certain that those interpretations were true for those times. She wants us to take her words and know that nature in fact is really supernatural. She tries her best to confirm herself as a 'wiccan' in the most feminist sense. She also believes that the earliest social organizations were mother centred. Then when the pagan societies metamorphosised the mother became the most feared and called witch by the male centred men religious societies.
The authors assertion about a soul apart from the body and the indistructability of the soul. At one point she refers rebirth of the soul. At another point she seems to say that the soul visit other worlds may be a heaven or hell. She did not use these words in her story.
The author pretends to be sceptic but all for uncritical acceptance the wiccan theory and practice. She says she stands against all superstitions and rituals. At the same time she wants us to believe in the extra ordinary power of cristal soul. Thru this she wants us to believe in the existense of pre-historic crystal souls as well as the discovery of the 12 of them. The 13th is missing and yet to be discovered.
At the end she dis solution of centuries of old Wiccan Academy. What happened to all the wiccan parophernelia including the thousands crystals collected in the canadian mountain chatew.
One apprhends that Ispita in fact makes out a case to believe in all kinds of superstitions by claiming for herself some percieved wiccan power over others. However, one must admit her easy handling of the these in a flowing language. The narrative is smooth . Even if we may be too sceptical about the story spinned by the author, the book readable and entertaining by itself.
By K.N. Krishnan.
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