Bijay Kant Dubey

To take the name of K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar is to delve into the education of then-time India which ut we know it not. Had Indian English been promoted, we would have reaped a good harvest.

The moral precepts that Walden puts it before, the way it takes to clutching along the thoughts moving around plain living, high thinking, self-reliance and life lived in the contact with Nature, a few can really put to test for self-trial before to relay them. A great American text, it is a marvel of thought and idea, a mosaic of marble stones.

The Rainbow is slightly different from Sons and Lovers even though love and relationship have not deserted him and these continue to engage him utmost and as to read him is to feel about being independent is one's free will and individuality and so are heroines who seek to charter their course away from surrendering to their lot and rather are rebellious when faced with mismatches in relationship. The rainbow of love, the heart can only feel it about, the rainbow of relationship is myriad-faced and our fall is bound to take place even want we it not, The Rainbow is about love and relationship seen through different characters and tangles of relationships as envisaged by the novelist in the way he often opines and takes to couples as for a deliberation.Tom and Lydia and their daughter Ann and her life with Will and finally the last with Ursula and Anton, but Ursula as a character is the main attraction of the novel as for her free will to live and sustain, as for her struggle to exist and to make a way for independently. If the situations and circumstances seem to be compelling, working in an adverse way, how to sustain and survive? But instead of she is self-willed to go her way.

Ezra Pound, the world could not understand what it lay in his mind and heart, what did he want it from, how did he live up to? A modernist he was an imagist and his movement an imagist movement. A world litterateur, he read haiku and hieroglyphs to be condensed and pictorial. A broadcaster, a critic, a theorist, driven into the rebels' camp, he thought of world literatures and the prospects of it rather than remaining English and American. The Cantos, even though epical, is rightly a ragbag clawing at history, politics, economics and clutching them going with his revelry and revelation to be transported to a prison camp as well as in an asylum for being criminally insane. A broadcaster, why did he for fascist Italy?

This man has got the guts and can survive the attempts made on his life by the assailant, but can the freedom of expression be suffocated at the dagger point? The answer is in the no. None can tone it down the expression of freedom, take it for granted that Rushdie fears it none the dagger with which the fanatics and zealots have fought many a pitched duel. We have seen the midnight's children mimicking the independence. What did the Partition people get it really? We have seen the satanic people reading satanic verses as they can never be lovers of man, but it is better to call them misanthropists, haters of man. Hatred, violence, malice and vengeance holding the dagger wanted to finish him, take his life, but could not. And the memoir, Knife tells the attempt made on his life with a dagger drawn at him with a deadly, sinister aim of killing him brutally as for fanaticism, religious frenzy and madness.

The Second Coming as a poem is abreast of Christian, Hindu, Hellenic and so on telling of the resurrection, the rising of the phoenix and other chaotic medley of creation. To red the poem is to pause and to think what things are this world made up, how a tale of chaos and anarchy keeps of tearing us apart and we feel it disturbed psychically as for how to get of this emotional crisis, the spiritual malaise.

The book reminds me of Oscar Wilde, Shakespearean characters who crossdressed they, Siva as Ardhanarishwara and Kamala Das' eunuchs.A gay autobiographer he now needs it to write the gay history.

A gay writer writing about the gay moods and gay history down the ages, crissdressers and transgeners, his is a different subject. How to cut the psyche? His is a different space.

It is a book of Nicaragua and the travels and trips of Rushdie which he obseerved in during his break from novels as for the backlash and banningof the book raked by conroversies. The writer travelled to it to get rid of repercussions and upheavals.